Writers Andri Snær Magnason and Manjushree Thapa speak with Ian McMillan on BBC Radio 3's The Verb, reflecting on their poetry's place in the farewell to Nepal’s Yala Glacier held earlier this year.

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Nepal holds tribute for disappearing glacier | AFP

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Glacier gets Himalayan funeral as thousands of bodies of ice ‘die’ Scientists warn of a rapid acceleration in the loss of land glaciers, compounding climate change

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Requiem for a glacier: Tribute held in Nepal for one of the Hindu Kush Himalaya’s most-studied rivers of ice - ICIMOD Langtang’s Yala Glacier set to join growing numbers of glaciers around the world declared dead due to temperature rise Over 50 people gather above 5,000M today to pay tribute to disappearing ice…

Locals of Langtang, Nepal, and glaciologists from four glaciated countries in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) gathered to mark the accelerating disappearance of Nepal’s Yala Glacier in Langtang, Nepal, today.

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