Painted panorama of snow peaks above turquoise glacial lakes under a swirling dawn sky
An interactive atlas · ICIMOD open inventory

Himalayan Glacial Lakes

Every glacial lake mapped around Nepal, the ones scientists flag as dangerous, and the valleys their water would travel. A field notebook, not a dashboard: pan, filter, and follow each risky lake down to the hydropower in its path.

4,535
mapped lakes
47
flagged dangerous
26
recorded outburst floods
3
countries