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… such as droughts, heat-waves, hurricanes and accelerated glacier retreat is likely to increase (see 3.2.2). 4.1 … more than one sixth of the world population that live in glacier- or snowmelt-fed river basins. People living in …

… the Northern Areas. Streams and rivers are fed by snow and glacier melts. Water is abundant in the summers from April to … available. Because water mostly originates from snow and glacier melts, it is often very turbid. This is due to rock … that it involved men going to the other side of the glacier where ibexes came to feed. Men would then kill one …

… make an annual pilgrimage to Ausangate’s life-giving glacier each June during the festival of Q’olloy Rit’I, “The …

… might have disappeared at the end of the 1990s…although a glacier with an area of 0.6 km2 was documented by U. S. … the measurement occurred in seasonal snow or was an actual glacier)” (Rhoades et al. 2006). The crater lake Tsuikucha or … investigations into the retreat of the Mama Cota- cachi glacier provide evidence of local ethno-ecological knowledge …