The glaciers in the Karakoram Range and Asian Mountains in China seem to be expanding and growing. Satellite images show that the size of these glaciers is actually increasing. Karakoram Glaciers cover 3% of the earth surface (and this area excludes those of Antarctica and Greenland) the glaciers had increased in thickness by about 0.11 meters over the time region from 1998 to 2008. According to researchers, global warming does not seem to have affected them at all.

Previous estimates of ice loss from the Asian mountains using satellite images have put the figure at 50 billion tons a year according to John Wahr Colorado University professor a researcher studying this phenomenon. The researchers used the satellite images from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiments and arrived at a figure of 150 billion tons loss of ice cap on these glaciers between 2003 and 2010 due to global warming.