“…However, some attempts have been carried out on the impact of climate change on the Himalayan glaciers [Bajracharya et al, 2006;Bajracharya, 2010;Shrestha et al, 2010b] and on the characteristics of the GLOF events [Bajracharya et al, 2007a;Wang et al, 2008;Osti and Egashira, 2009;Shrestha et al, 2010a;Shrestha et al, 2013, Worni et al, 2012, Shrestha and Nakagawa, 2014. But, the failure mechanism and erosion process of moraine dam are still not thoroughly understood.…”