Kilian Jornet Instagram – In the 70 years since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled Everest, rising global temperatures have put the mountain in danger.
In the next 70 years, two-thirds of glaciers on the region’s mountains will disappear if we do not take urgent action to #SaveOurSnow
Breaching the 1.5 degrees threshold enshrined in the Paris Agreement will unleash catastrophe across the Hindu Kush Himalayas: jeopardising the lives and livelihoods of 240 million people in the mountains and 2 billion more people downstream.
We should ask our leaders to take action, and individually to use the tools we have for it. And I acknowledge I’m a part of the problem. The footprint of my last travel and expedition in this mountain was not small: 2T/CO2e. And even if I try to do changes on my lifestyle, my relation to sport (travels to events, gear development, etc) and advocacy, I have a long way to go, so better to not listen to me but the ones who really know like the scientists at @_icimod
📸 @julien_rai , @_icimod | Posted on 29/May/2023 21:23:28