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KATHMANDU - Mount Everest is losing snow and turning "dry and rocky", British climber Kenton Cool, who made his 17th ascent of the world's highest peak this week, the most by a foreigner, said on Saturday .
"If you go back to early mid-2000s, there used to be a lot of snow," he told Reuters in an interview in Kathmandu after returning from his record-setting expedition that was confirmed by Nepali and hiking officials this week.Mr Cool said he had never seen the types of rockfalls he saw on the Lhotse Face, along the route to the Everest summit, before.
Climate scientists say the earth's temperature has increased by an average of 0.74 deg C over the past 100 years, but warming across the Himalayas has been greater than the global averages.
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