Stacked Landsat 2 MSS (band 4, 60 m resolution), Landsat 5 TM (band 1, 30 m resolution), Landsat 7 ETM+ (band 8, 15 m resolution), and Landsat 8 OLI (band 8, 15 m resolution) imagery from 1972--2016, visualising the surges of 8 glaciers in the West Kunlun Shan, Xinjiang, China. Frames are annotated in the form YYYY_DDD, where YYYY is the year and DDD is the Julian day for that year. Information about location and scale of imagery can be found in the appendix of the related Master's thesis. Landsat data is provided by the USGS at earthexplorer.usgs.gov