We’re excited to announce another follow-up post by ICI Research Associate Chris Crews discussing the trip last fall to Nepal, and some of the ways that climate change is posing a risk to religious sites in the Himalaya. Here’s an excerpt from his post. Learn more about the Sacred Himalaya Initiative here. You can also read Chris’ other posts on the ICI Nepal research trip here.
The rocky trail we had been hiking all day along the Limi River was interspersed with a mix of subalpine trees and large boulder fields, followed by a low stone wall alongside empty fields. As we crossed an old wooden bridge constructed of hand hewn logs and stones, a wide field of barley in various stages of harvest slowly came into view. The field was interspersed with a winding network of small streams, all nestled inside a small river valley. We were about to enter the village of Halji, our first destination in the remote Limi Valley of far western Nepal. Although I did not realize it as we crossed the bridge, we were entering another community on the front lines of a new era of climate chaos, or what some have taken to calling the Anthropocene.
Read the full post at the State of Formation here.