Help the villagers of Dhye, Victims of global warming. For the past few years, the village of Dhye in Upper Mustang (Nepal) has faced a terrible drought. Almost half of their fields are no longer irrigable and therefore prove unusable in this
The Himalayan hinterland looks like a desert – a desert at high altitude where life is concentrated in rare oases, the highest in the world; without palm trees and sometimes even without trees. However, there is no shortage of water.
The southern slope of the Himalayas lives to the rhythm of the monsoons. Agricultural calendars, religious festivals, pilgrimages, weddings; all human activity depends on these masses of hot and humid air which from June to September arrive from the Indian
The need for water for agriculture has always been the most important. The survival of these isolated peoples, who lived until the last century in almost complete self-sufficiency, depends on the abundance and regularity of the rains. Today there are yet
The Himalayan imagination is steeped in this fertile shamanic soil which long predates the modern, scholarly religions which subsequently flourished in the Himalayas. Although very diverse, the peoples of the Himalayas have in common an ancestral background of values and
When Westerners look at the Himalayas, they see the world's highest mountain chain. But for Asians, they are above all a magnificent water tower. Their eyes and thoughts turn to the sparkling glaciers, countless waterways and majestic rivers of this
Most of the Himalayan rivers are born at about 5000 m altitude on the Tibetan plateau. Over the course of about a hundred kilometres, they arrive at 300m altitude in the Indian plains. This impressive descent takes them through the
Water is the perfect embodiment of the ideal of purity. The water from the roof of the World, born of eternal snow and inaccessible peaks, is of perfect, divine purity. All the peoples of the Himalayas, whatever their beliefs, worship the water
Our goals are to show the beauty of the world and to give a fresh view of this vital resource that is Water. Our aim is to use an aesthetic approach to help the reader become sensitive to the cause
Studying Water is a meaningful way of understanding the geography of this huge chain, which features so many different living environments. Water is the key to understanding the relationships of these mountain people with their natural environment. It is the