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Brief communication: An ice-debris avalanche in the Nupchu Valley, Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, eastern Nepal
Alton C. Byers
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela
Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of La Frontera, Temuco, 4780000, Chile
Dan H. Shugar
Water, Sediment, Hazards, and Earth-surface Dynamics (waterSHED) Lab, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
Daniel McGrath
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Mohan B. Chand
Department of Environmental Sciences, Patan Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur, Nepal
Ram Avtar
Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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In spite of enhanced technologies, many large cryospheric events remain unreported because of their remoteness, inaccessibility, or poor communications. In this Brief communication, we report on a large ice-debris avalanche that occurred sometime between 16 and 21 August 2022 in the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA), eastern Nepal.
In spite of enhanced technologies, many large cryospheric events remain unreported because of...