Ananta P Gajurel¹, Mary Hubbard², Bibek Giri³, Sanjit Maka⁴, Balkrishna Shrestha⁴, Anil Ghimire⁴, Aaron E Putnam⁵ and Paul Andrew Mayewski⁶, (1)Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozemann, United States, (3)Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozeman, United States, (4)Tribhuvan University, Department of Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States