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Samjung, Nepal – 18 April 2025
1. Various of abandoned village
2. Various of parched fields
3. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Kunga Gurung, farmer:
"We were local residents there. We moved here because there was no water to irrigate our fields. We need water to drink and for farming but there’s no water there. There were three canals, all three have dried up.”
4. Various of Kunga moving dirt
5. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Toshi Lama Gurung, farmer:
"It was hard. It was difficult to start over everything from scratch. We had to gather everything from the stones and soil. So, it was quite difficult."
6. Various of Toshi Lama and others walking down into fields with shovels
7. Various of Toshi Lama digging up dirt for farming
8. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Pemba Gurung and Toshi Lama Gurung, farmer:
"Due to lack of water. There was no water for irrigation. The crops used to dry out. Animals used to come and feed on the crops. Because of those problems, we moved here."
9. Various of villagers gathering and digging up irrigation canals
10. Various of Pemba and Toshi Lama washing their hands in a river
11. Close of water flowing in the river
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Kathmandu, Nepal – 15 May 2025
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina Maharjan, Migration Expert, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development:
"The glacier retreat is one of the most tangible, most direct impacts of the climate change. And in many cases, because the glacier is a kind of, it’s a frozen water reserve, right? So that water reserve is very, very important, for the livestock as well as agriculture sectors, even in high altitudes."
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Samjung, Nepal – 18 April 2025
13. Various of abandoned village
14. Various of water trickling through dried up streams near Samjung
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Exeter, UK – 7 May 2025
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Neil Adger, professor of human geography at the University of Exeter:
"On an everyday basis, the changing weather patterns is actually affecting the ability of people to live in, you know, particular places because of the impacts of floods, because of the impact of droughts, which basically affects the bottom line, the productivity and the profitability of farming and other sorts of livelihoods."
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Samjung, Nepal – 18 April 2025
16. Various of abandoned houses
17. Various of parched fields
STORYLINE:
The Himalayan village of Samjung has vanished — emptied by climate change.
Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal’s Upper Mustang, over 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) above sea level, the Buddhist village once lived by slow, deliberate rhythms — herding yaks and sheep and harvesting barley under cliffs honeycombed with “sky caves” — 2,000-year-old chambers used for ancestral burials, meditation and shelter.
Then the water dried up.
The snowy mountains turned brown and barren. Year after year, snowfall declined. Springs and canals vanished and when it did rain, the water came all at once, flooding fields and washing away the mud homes. Families left one by one, leaving the skeletal remains of a community transformed by climate change: Crumbling mud homes, cracked terraces and unkempt shrines.
The Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain regions — stretching from Afghanistan to Myanmar — hold more ice than anywhere else outside the Arctic and Antarctic. Their glaciers feed major rivers that support 240 million people in the mountains — and 1.65 billion more downstream.
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