00:00The Himalayan Hindu Kush region is called the third pole of the world.
00:05Just as the North Pole and the South Pole have so much ice,
00:08after them it is this region that has that kind of comparable amount of ice.
00:146,000 cubic kilometer of ice.
00:17Think of the volume and the weight of ice.
00:20And this ice has been melting at a very, very fast rate.
00:28And not only is this melting, even the rate of melting is accelerating.
