Glacier Melting Causes Collapse
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•How Pakistan's melting glaciers destroy mountain villages
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Climate change is altering the landscape across Gilgit-Baltistan and neighbouring Chitral .
Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable to climate change, although it is only less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
More than 48,000 people in region at high risk from lake outburst or landslide.
Some, like Badswat in neighbouring district of Ghizer , are being evacuated.
In the village of Passu , just over an hour ’s drive from Hassanabad , they are holding an evacuation drill.
Trained in first aid, river crossing and high mountain rescue, they practise evacuating the village a few times a year.
Ijaz has been a volunteer for the last 20 years , with many stories of rescuing lost walkers in the mountains.
He too is worried about the number of dangers and the increased unpredictability of the weather in the area.
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