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19 March, 2019

The youth group that built this ice stupa in the village of Gya installed a café in its base.

They used the proceeds to take the village elders on a pilgrimage.

As Himalayan snows dwindle and glaciers recede, communities in the Ladakh region of northern India are building huge ice cones that provide water into summer.

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Ladakh is a cold desert, with winter temperatures reaching -30°C, and an average rainfall of around 100 millimeters. Most villages face acute water shortages, particularly during the crucial planting season in April and May.

Tourism and population growth are adding to water demand. In 2013, Sonam Wangchuk, a Ladakhi engineer and innovator, came up with a form of glacier-grafting that creates artificial glaciers in the form of conical ice heaps, resembling Buddhist religious stupas.

The ice stupas store winter meltwater and slowly release it for the growing season in spring, when it is most