HASSANABAD VILLAGE, Pakistan
The Wider Image: Mountain villages fight for future as melting glaciers threaten floods
A view of the newly built Hassanabad bridge, which replaced a bridge that collapsed when the Shisper glacier caused Glacial Lake Outburst Flooding (GLOF), in Hassanabad village, Hunza valley, in the Karakoram mountain range, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, October 8, 2023. Himalayan glaciers are on track to lose up to 75 per cent of their ice by the century's end due to global warming, according to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). When glacial lakes overfill or their banks become unsound, they burst, sparking deadly floods that wash out bridges and buildings and wipe out fertile land throughout the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalayan mountain ranges that intersect in northern Pakistan. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro SEARCH "SOOMRO PAKISTAN GLACIERS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.