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Nepalese ministers will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to draw attention to the melting of the Himalayas.

With an altitude of 8,848 m, Everest is the highest mountain on earth.Photo: lungfish.com.

According to Telegraph, the meeting will take place before the climate change summit in Copenhagen (Denmark) in December, in a campsite at an altitude of 5,300 m.

The Himalayas are the third largest ice storage area in the world. 15,000 glaciers of this mountain range contain about 12,000 km3 of fresh water and supply water to some of Asia's largest rivers such as the Ganges, Yamuna and Brahmaputra. They also supply water for irrigation systems in Tibet (China), Nepal, Bangladesh and India.

But global warming causes many of the Himalayan largest glaciers to melt, including the Siachen glacier (the natural border line between Pakistan and India in Kashmir). The melting of glaciers causes major floods and causes crop losses.

Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.Photo: topnews.in.

Under these circumstances, Nepalese ministers wanted to follow their counterparts in the Maldives, after the island government hosted an undersea meeting last month to warn the archipelago's risk of sinking if the water level The sea continues to rise.

A Nepalese government spokesman said glaciers are melting at worrying speeds, creating new lakes. The Nepalese government worries that these lakes will drown many villages in lowland areas.

Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and his ministers hope their actions will increase pressure on countries that generate more emissions such as China, India and the United States in the context of the summit of the variable. Climate change is about to happen.