PHOTONEWS : Mountain villages fight for future as melting glaciers threaten floods
Himalayan glaciers are on track to lose up to 75% of their ice by the century’s end due to global warming. Amid a shortfall in funding for those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, village residents urgently need increased support to adapt to threats of glacial lake floods.
Dilshad Bano, 51, sitting on the floor near her house which was damaged after a Glacial Lake Outburst Flooding (GLOF) incident, in Hassanabad village, Hunza valley, in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 9, 2023. Pakistan is among the world’s most at-risk countries from glacial lake floods, with 800,000 people living within 15km of a glacier. Many residents of the Karakorams built their homes on lush land along rivers running off glaciers. PHOTO: REUTERS
A view of Passu village, located in the Gojal valley in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 8, 2023. Fifteen million people worldwide are at risk of glacial lake flooding, with 2 million of them in Pakistan, according to a February study published in scientific journal Nature Communications. PHOTO: REUTERS
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Akbar Hussain, 60, who runs a tea shop, walking past a wall of a house that was damaged after a Glacial Lake Outburst Flooding (GLOF) incident, in Hassanabad village, Hunza valley, in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 9, 2023. With the U.N.’s COP28 climate summit scheduled to begin on Nov. 30, pressure is ramping up on wealthy countries to fulfil promises to help developing nations. PHOTO: REUTERS.
A community hall and houses showing signs of damage after a Glacial Lake Outburst Flooding (GLOF) incident occurred from the nearby Shisper glacier, in Hassanabad village, Hunza valley, in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 10, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS
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Jaffer Ali Khan, a 31-year-old mason wearing groom’s attire, walking with relatives while going to the bride’s home during his wedding ceremony in Darkut village, Yasin valley, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 13, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS.
A yak grazing in front of snow-covered mountains, in an area that has been badly affected by flood-related incidents, near to the Gamoo Bhr glacial lake and Darkut glacier, Darkut village, Yasin valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 11, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS
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Tariq Jamil, 51, chairman of the Community Based Disaster Risk Management Centre, walking with a hiking stick to check the ice on the Shisper glacier, near Hassanabad village, Hunza valley, in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 10, 2023. On the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures the ice’s movement and snaps photos. PHOTO: REUTERS.
Tariq Jamil, 51, chairman of the Community Based Disaster Risk Management Centre, monitoring a metrological website on his mobile phone and laptop, at home in Hassanabad village, Hunza valley, in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 9, 2023. His mission is to mobilise his community of 200 families in Hassanabad, in the Karakoram mountains, to fight for a future for their village and way of life. PHOTO: REUTERS
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A man preparing to hoist the national flag as students gather for the morning assembly at Govt. Middle School, in Darkut village, Yasin valley, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 13, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS.
Tariq Jamil, 51, chairman of the Community Based Disaster Risk Management Centre, posing with ice taken from the Shisper glacier, near Hassanabad village, Hunza valley, in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 10, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS
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Zahra Ramzan, 40, mother of 11 year-old Ali Mohammad (L), holding his photograph at her home in Chalt village, in the Karakoram mountain range, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 10, 2023. In Chalt village, a torrent of black water rushed down the valley last year. Ali Mohammad was swept away. “I’m in very deep grief. I could not see my son again, even a body,” she said. PHOTO: REUTERS..
Sarah Tariq, 4, playing as her mother Roohi Baig, 39, ties up cattle outside their home in Hassanabad village, Hunza valley, in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, Oct 9, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS
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