"What happens in this remote mountain region is a serious concern for the whole world" Andreas Schild

Captured on camera: 50 years of climate change in the Himalayas

Series of before and after panoramas of Imja glacier taken five decades apart highlights dramatic reduction of Himalayan ice

Andreas Schild, the director general of Icimod (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Icimod), said the photographs reveal just "the tip of the iceberg"