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In the Himalayan high desert of Upper Mustang, farmers are engineering cone-shaped ice towers that store winter water for spring crops — a…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 21, 2026
In the high desert of Upper Mustang, where annual rainfall barely wets the ground and the region's glaciers are retreating year on year, one village has stopped waiting for the sky to provide water. Since 2022, farmers in Chhoser have been growing their own…
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What this means for you If you're trekking Upper Mustang or the Jomsom-Muktinath route, you're walking through exactly the kind of high-desert terrain this technology was built to save, barley and buckwheat fields that depend on a short, unreliable irrigation…
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