A looming water crisis at the world’s highest glacier

Camping on the glacier, Duncan and the research team contend with harsh, dry conditions, dealing with the cold and altitude sickness. Climate change is hitting the hardest in the world's mountain ranges. We learn how Leeds glaciologist Professor Duncan Quincey is helping locals at the world's highest glacier. At 5,000m, the Khumbu glacier in Nepal is the highest in the world. It is at the base of Mount Everest, and that causes huge challenges for glaciologist, Professor Duncan Quincey. Camping on the glacier, Duncan and the research team contend with harsh, dry conditions, dealing with the cold and altitude sickness: "You get around 50% of the work done compared to sea level conditions due to exhaustion. There's also nowhere to wash except meltwater ponds, which are extremely cold - you certainly know about it when you get in there." But he has to be here, where climate change is hitting the hardest - and fastest.