The ice is melting. The people are fleeing. The mountains are screaming.
Last May record temperatures provoked a GLOF or glacial lake outburst flood in northern Pakistan, sweeping away bridges and villages in the valley below the Shisper glacier. Higher up the mountains, a semi-nomadic people called the Wakhi were leading their yaks to summer pastures 15,500 feet above in the mountains. Their traditional lifestyle has also been heavily impacted by climate change. From the K2 and the Himalayas, we profile the scientists,mountain climbers, and the villagers on this global warming frontline.
Cinematography
15,000ft yak herding shots that humble every nature doc.
Direction
Shallwanee refuses easy heroes or villains.
Director
Karim Shallwanee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Wakhi are Ismaili Muslims, followers of the Aga Khan—rarely depicted in Western media despite 1,000+ years in these mountains.
Shisper's surge was predicted by local knowledge years before satellite confirmation; the film quietly indicts who gets called an 'expert.'
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