Adamis - I Have Seen the Earth Change Season 2 (2010) Part 6 Nepal

Travelling to 10 corners of the world, this series aims at showing locally through the people who experience it the concrete impact of climate change. Beyond the figures and graphics who are the people affected today in their daily activities by these change ? What choices are they facing and what solutions have they found to maintain a sustainable activity on the land of their ancestors? Witness the global changes from a local and multicultural perspective.

Part 6: Nepal

Solukhumbu is one of the 75 districts in Nepal. It gathers most of the 3300 glaciers and 2300 artic lakes of the country. Inhabitants witness huge climatic changes in the Everest area. The most striking being the fast glacier recession, which have given birth to new lakes where there was only ice and snow. Those lakes are a danger for the population, natural bombs, ready to explode. If the water overflows, it will sweep away inhabitants, bridges, houses and villages.

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