The Earth's roof is rising by two millimeters every year. Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, has grown between 15 and 50 meters in the last 89,000 years, much more than the other eight-thousanders that make up the Himalayas. This is a geological anomalySince the altitudes of mountains in the same mountain range should be similar, researchers from University College London and the China University of Geosciences may have solved this problem. In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience They have shown that erosion of the Arun Gorge, a river near Everest, is pushing the mountain's summit upward. The summit already measures 8,849 meters (28,500 feet) high, some 250 meters (860 feet) above the next highest peak, K2. According to the researchers, the Arun has carved a significant gorge over millennia, carrying billions of tons of soil and sediment from the base of Everest. This has caused the pressure exerted on the mountain from beneath the Earth's crust, as a result of this constant erosion, to be greater than the force of gravity. This is a phenomenon called isostatic reboundThis occurs when the crust loses too much material and deforms, and the liquid mantle inside the Earth sends great pressure upwards. This would explain why Everest is noticeably taller than the other eight-thousanders in the Himalayas.

A landslide caused by torrential rains left at least five dead and more than a hundred missing yesterday in the Indian Himalayas. A phenomenon called cloud burst It brought intense rainfall in a short period of time to the state of Uttarakhand, where the flash floods devastated a small village.