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Daniel Vuichard, Markus Zimmermann, The 1985 Catastrophic Drainage of a Moraine-Dammed Lake, Khumbu Himal, Nepal: Cause and Consequences, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 7, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 91-110
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