Arre, accumulation zone is up top where snow piles up, ablation zone down below where it melts — and if that equilibrium line altitude is rising, saala the glacier is definitely dying, retreating up the mountain! I've seen it with my own eyes, guiding treks year after year — the ice is thinner, the crevasses more dangerous. My village's old water sources from glacial melt are becoming unreliable, kade, it's not just science, it's our lives changing.
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