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4 Mar 2022 | Cryosphere

Gender dynamics and disaster events in Hasanabad, Pakistan

Hasanabad, a village located some 2,100 metres above sea level (masl), is four kilometres away from Shisper Glacier. Since 2018, when a sudden surge of the glacier terminus (the snout or lowest end of a glacier) was first recorded and an ice-dammed glacial lake was formed, its villagers have been living in constant fear of potential glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs).

Kosar Bano & Chimi Seldon

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The Shisper Glacier surge blocking the proglacial Machuhar River, resulting in the formation of an ice-dammed lake Photo: Pakistan Meteorology Division
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