Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-199-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-199-2026
Data description paper
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07 Jan 2026
Data description paper |  | 07 Jan 2026

Towards Bedmap Himalayas: a new airborne glacier thickness survey in Khumbu Himal, Nepal

Hamish D. Pritchard, Edward C. King, David J. Goodger, Douglas Boyle, Daniel N. Goldberg, Beatriz Recinos, Andrew Orr, and Dhananjay Regmi

Data sets

Raw and processed helicopter-borne radio-echo sounding ice thickness data from the glaciers of the Khumbu Himal, Nepal (2019) (Version 1.0) [Data set] H. D. Pritchard et al. https://doi.org/10.5285/e39647f5-fb72-4d16-acbd-9784ed2167b8

Model code and software

Clutter model B. Recinos et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15488954

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Short summary
We present a new and uniquely extensive dataset of glacier thickness from the Khumbu Himal around Mount Everest that stretches for 119 km, doubling the extent of thickness measurements in High Mountain Asia. Such measurements are key inputs for models that estimate how much ice is stored on the whole mountain range scale and for models that predict how this ice reserve will change in future, and what impact this will have on water supply for the large populations living downstream.
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