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What could be the link between the UN climate conference in Copenhagen and the beauties of the Himalayas ? Surely the climate change. Trekking and climbing in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan or any other places around the Himlayas give you a real insight of the consequences of a rise of temperatures.
All the asian south continent depends on the water supply coming from the Himalayan mountains. And in thoses regoins, the consequences of global warming are visible. Glaciers are shrinking and melting creating large lakes below the slopes, leaving local population in valleys in great danger due to lake bursts. Snowlines are also reducing creating large moraines where there used to have large ice tongues. Lower rainfalls and increasing period of droughts now jeopardize food supply in the Terai Region (West of Nepal).
A delegation of Everest summiters have travelled to Denmark to urge western countries to help Nepal to tackle the climatic issues. Nepal has to switch to renewable energy, build up better hydroelectric power infrastructures and lower its carbondioxide emissions. In Kathmandu, pollution generated by human activity is more and more visible each year.
Lately the Nepalese cabinet has held a meeting at the feet of Everest to highlight the dramatic consequences of global warming and climate change on this fragile environment. In the tiny altitude village of Gorakshep at 5200m altitude, about 20 ministers have gathered to draw the world's attention to consequences of the climate change on the Everest region and the populations depending on its main ressource, water.
Nepal also depends on tourism. Economy is mainly based on the waves of trekkers and climbers that travel every year to Nepal to climb mountains and hike across the country. But climbing himalayan giants, and especially Mt Everest, has become a tougher challenge. Hanging seracs, opened crevasses due to lower snowfalls, increasing number of avalanches and bear-rocked slopes in high altitude where you expect snow trails are the visible consequences of the changing face of the Himalayas. And it is now !
All the asian south continent depends on the water supply coming from the Himalayan mountains. And in thoses regoins, the consequences of global warming are visible. Glaciers are shrinking and melting creating large lakes below the slopes, leaving local population in valleys in great danger due to lake bursts. Snowlines are also reducing creating large moraines where there used to have large ice tongues. Lower rainfalls and increasing period of droughts now jeopardize food supply in the Terai Region (West of Nepal).
A delegation of Everest summiters have travelled to Denmark to urge western countries to help Nepal to tackle the climatic issues. Nepal has to switch to renewable energy, build up better hydroelectric power infrastructures and lower its carbondioxide emissions. In Kathmandu, pollution generated by human activity is more and more visible each year.
Lately the Nepalese cabinet has held a meeting at the feet of Everest to highlight the dramatic consequences of global warming and climate change on this fragile environment. In the tiny altitude village of Gorakshep at 5200m altitude, about 20 ministers have gathered to draw the world's attention to consequences of the climate change on the Everest region and the populations depending on its main ressource, water.
Nepal also depends on tourism. Economy is mainly based on the waves of trekkers and climbers that travel every year to Nepal to climb mountains and hike across the country. But climbing himalayan giants, and especially Mt Everest, has become a tougher challenge. Hanging seracs, opened crevasses due to lower snowfalls, increasing number of avalanches and bear-rocked slopes in high altitude where you expect snow trails are the visible consequences of the changing face of the Himalayas. And it is now !
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