Beyond Glacial Lakes: Structural Bedrock Failure and the New Wave of High-Altitude Hazards
An evidence-based briefing on ice-rock avalanches, permafrost degradation, and compound hazard chains in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. I. Introduction: A Paradigm Shift in Himalayan Hazard Science For three decades, the dominant mental model of Himalayan disaster risk has centred on one image: a glacial lake, swollen by decades of ice melt, bursting through its earthen…