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Capturing change across the Hindu Kush Himalaya

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Entries must be submitted by 27 November 2017. Please see terms and conditions for more information.

ICIMOD Single Photo Contest Winners

Susheel Shrestha Hard Life

Upakar Bhandari Women and their livelihood to combat climate change

Another Tree Sacrificed

Resilient HKH Photo Story Contest Winners

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

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Susheel Shrestha Hard Life

Local shepherds near Kooha lake in Kalam valley in the Hindu Kush mountain cut sheep hair.

zile huma RECEDING NATURE

Dorji Dema Adaptation option for food security

Patches of greenery in desert

Kaushal Sapkota Access

Walter Immerzeel Yala glacier from the sky

Bijay Gurung Himalayan boy with his sheeps

Upakar Bhandari Women and their livelihood to combat climate change

Sangay Tshering Yaks, the gold for highlanders.

Deepak Tolange Melting glacier

PARIVA DOBRIYAL Impact of climate change- shift from gender to survival

Danial Shah Flash flood took away trees that were more than 500 year old in the valleys of Kalash in Hindukush mountains, Pakistan

Climate Change - a daily threat for mountain lives

Danial Shah Women carry water canisters, after a flash flood destroyed their homes in Brep, a village in upper Chitral, Pakistan

Kishor Shrestha Lives in the wasteland, forbidden but not a waste

Mohan K. Duwal Winnowing

Impacts of climate change in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul

Fiona Chan Goats of Kagbeni

Bishal Gautam The Snow is Melting!

people are already in bad condition, climate change has worsen it further.

Birendra Raj Bajracharya The shrinking of Lirung and Khyimjung Glaciers: Hazards and opportunities

Robic Upadhayay KHUMBU RETREATING

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot kernels- Unique foods in the mountains ensure healthy foods

Zero Agriculture productivity due to Geographic factors

MAHINDRA LUITEL "Let us not be a stump"

Grazing sheep on the vast pasture of Hindu Kush

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot fresh fruits, Leh, India

Dorji Dema Impacts of climate change and resilient solutions

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot fresh fruits, Leh, India

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Dorji Dema Impacts of climate change and resilient solutions

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Dorji Dema Impacts of climate change and resilient solutions

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

Dorji Dema Impacts of climate change and resilient solutions

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot fresh fruits, Leh, India

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Dorji Dema Impacts of climate change and resilient solutions

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot fresh fruits, Leh, India

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

Dorji Dema Impacts of climate change and resilient solutions

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot fresh fruits, Leh, India

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot fresh fruits, Leh, India

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot fresh fruits, Leh, India

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

Dorji Dema Impacts of climate change and resilient solutions

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot fresh fruits, Leh, India

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

Alice Chautard From Peaks to Plains: Troubled Waters along the Gandaki River

Dorji Dema Impacts of climate change and resilient solutions

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

Danial Shah Flash Floods in Chitral, Pakistan caused by Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

Gross National Happiness and the Fragile Mountain Ecology in Bhutan

Athar Parvaiz A Woman in the Saffron fields of Kashmir showing her "meager collection" of saffron flowers. Saffron, known as the king of spices, is a high value crop. But farmers say that its production is declining due to droughts caused by climate change.

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot kernels- Unique foods in the mountains ensure healthy foods

Nabin Baral Ram Maya Pariyar starts 13 days death rituals of her husband in her makeshift house on the cremating day of her husband in Maiyum Village, Besishahar, Lamjung District, Nepal.

Bijay Gurung High altitude desert of Nepal

The transporter

Suman Badgami way to the heaven

Susheel Shrestha Firewood

Forest of lantana

Thakur Prasad Devkota Drying up Falls

Fiona Chan Goats of Kagbeni

Kishor Shrestha Hands, together for migration

Deepak Tolange Melting glacier

Lokendra Subba Terraced water conservation pond adjacent to tea garden

Mohan K. Duwal Winnowing

Rural life in Khangchendzonga landscape

Upakar Bhandari Women and their livelihood to combat climate change

Susheel Shrestha Nepal smiles

Maja Gajic Monks going about business as usual.

Livelihood in cold arid of Upper Mustang.

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Sagar Chhetri Langtang Raising After the 2015 Gorkha Eartquake

impact of climate change on Himalaya, downstream connection and resilient solution

Ansgar Fellendorf Change and Opportunity- Skiing in the Himalaya

Sangay Tshering Climate change and its impact in Bhutan

ABHAY GANDHE Apricot fresh fruits, Leh, India

Upma Manral Those who are left behind: A tale of augmented misery and dwindling cultural identity

Marc Foggin Resilient Pastoralism on the Roof of the World

Fazal Rahim Awan Earning through the turning waste resources to products

Fawad Saeed Water Scarcity in Nepal

Birendra Raj Bajracharya Khumbu Glaciers: Calm but alarming.

The Other side of Annapurna

Sanjan Thapa Change in land cover in Resilient Eastern Himalaya

Dawa Yoezer The anthropogenic impacts of harvesting cordyceps on alpine ecosystem

RAMESH CHANDRA SHARMA IMPACT OF CHANGE IN HKH REGION

Nabin Baral Nepal reduced climate risk in Everest region

RAMESH CHANDRA SHARMA IMPACT OF CHANGE IN HKH REGION

Transformed River forced people to different path livelihood

Lokendra Subba Climate Change and Large Cardamom: Gold of Streams

impact of climate change on Himalaya, downstream connection and resilient solution

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How to Enter PhotoHKH

Each person may submit entries to both the photo story contest and single photo contest as 1 photo story (consisting of 5-10 images and accompanying story of maximum 600 words) and up to 3 single photos in photo contest.

Deadline for Submission 27 November 2017

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