As a child, Shakir remembers long extreme winters with heavy snowfall and dry blistering winds, where it was hard to play outside. He grew up in a village named Gulmit, located at an elevation of 2500 m, surrounded by the high snow caped mountains in the Karakoram Range in northern Pakistan. That was 30 years ago, when climate change was still not a cause of concern for the local people. Today, in ...[Read More]
The physical and social changes facing the mountainous populations of the Karakoram Range
View of Central Hunza valley with lush vegetation. Photo credit: Anas-Najam on unsplash.com.