Sonam Wangchuk, an engineer from Ladakh, developed and tested the first ice stupas with his students from the alternative school SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh). The ...

At the foot of Pakistan's impossibly high mountains whitened by frost all year round, farmers grappling with a lack of water ...

In the frostbitten valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistani farmers are fighting water scarcity by building artificial glaciers ...

In the frostbitten valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, farmers are fighting water scarcity by building artificial glaciers shaped like towering cones of ice.

They watched the videos of Sonam Wangchuk, an environmental activist and engineer in the Indian region of Ladakh ... The ice forms in the shape of cones that resemble Buddhist stupas, and act ...

Gilgit-Baltistan has 13,000 glaciers — more than any country on Earth outside the polar regions. Their beauty has made the region one of the country’s top tourist destinations — towering peaks loom ...

AFP They watched the videos of Sonam Wangchuk, an environmental activist and engineer in the Indian region of Ladakh ... The ice forms in the shape of cones that resemble Buddhist stupas, and ...