Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs)—Mapping the Hazard of a Threat to High Asia and Beyond - Impact of Global Changes on Mountains: Responses and Adaptation - page 327

Soon after the aforementioned paper by Buchroithner et al. (1982)
Wilfried Haeberli reported about 'glacier fl oods' in the Swiss Alps (Haeberli
1983). In 1985 some Japanese scientists and one Nepali published a short
note on catastrophic fl oods in Nepal originating from glacier lakes (Fushimi
et al. 1985). In the following years Vuichard and Zimmermann (1986, 1987)
reported in detail about the Langmoche fl ashfl ood in Khumbu Himal, Nepal
caused by the sudden drainage of Dig Thso (cf. Fig. 14.2). In 1986 a fi rst
comprehensive monograph about GLOFS, initiated by the Kathmandu-
based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
(ICIMOD), was issued by Jack D. Ives (Ives 1986).
Figure 14.2. Recent photo of Dig Thso which drained catastrophically in 1985. The breached
dam is still well visible (Photo courtesy of K. Fujita).
Color image of this figure appears in the color plate section at the end of the topic.