A shirtless Chinese tourist walks in the tongue of Glacier 1 at the base of the 7,556 meter (24,790 feet) Mount Gongga, known in Tibetan as Minya Konka, on November 10, 2015, in Hailuogou, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province. Hailuogou is one of China's 8,500 monsoonal glaciers and the longest of 71 glaciers on the eastern slope of Mount Gongga. Monsoonal glaciers are found at lower altitudes and are at much higher risk to the effects of rising temperatures and climate change. Chinese scientists studying the impact on the Tibetan plateau warn the ablation rate of monsoonal glaciers is alarming. Data shows the Hailuogou basin glaciers have lost nearly 3 kilometers of mass since the 1960s and the rate is accelerating.