We used the Riegl VZ-6000 terrestrial laser scanning to perform annual geodetic surveys at 2-4 scan positions situated in the stable terrain area. The GNSS was used to survey three-dimensional coordinates for these scan positions with the system of WGS84 datum and we then produced dense point clouds of the investigated glacier surfaces using RiSCAN PRO® v 2.14.1.The procedures for point cloud processing included direct georeferencing, data registration, data compression, data filtering and interpolation. The processed layers in 2017 were considered as the reference, and the co-registration of the two consecutive layers for the ten glaciers was finished by using the iterative closest point algorithms via RiSCAN PRO® v 2.14.1.

File descriptions: Each file is named as glacier name. 2017 and 2018 in each file are the Riegl VZ-6000 terrestrial laser scanning survey years. The format of point cloud data is Las.This dataset has been carefully reviewed and curated in accordance with PANGAEA's exceptionally high quality standards. However, due to discontinued communication from the authors' side, it did not receive the usual formal approval by the authors and therefore lacks final scientific validation.