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Kathmandu, February 21, 2025 – Snow cover atop Mount Everest has retreated by 150 metres, signaling a lack of snow accumulation during the winter of 2024-25, researchers have observed. Rising Snow Line Signals Climate Shift NASA satellite images from October 2023 to early January 2025 reveal a steady rise in the snow line, glaciologist Mauri Pelto wrote in a blog post on February 2. This trend, seen in both 2024 and 2025, suggests that snowfall is failing to persist, even at high elevations.Mount Everest, at 8,849 metres, is the highest point on Earth, straddling Nepal and Tibet. The snow line…