HIMA-ALAYISTES – An observatory on the roof of the world

EExhibition from June 4 to 30, 2019.
Lecture on June 7, 2019, at 6 p.m.
Gazette Café – 6 rue Levat, 34000 Montpellier.
Free admission.

Exhibition – Feature – Lecture

• Photographs by Rémi Muller;
• report by Olivier Boulanger;
• Lecture by P. Chevallier and F. Delclaux.

The Everest Valley in Nepal is under pressure from climate change, pollution, and tourism. At an altitude of 5,000 meters, French scientists are conducting an increasing number of missions to measure the impact of these environmental changes on water resources in this region of Asia. For various reasons related to working conditions and the geographical context (difficulties in access, altitude, earthquakes, GLOFs), there is currently little precise, long-term hydro-climatic observation data available in the Himalayan valleys.

It is in this context that, since 2010, researchers from Montpellier have been conducting a systematic hydrological study of Nepal’s Khumbu region—at the foot of the world’s highest peak—as part of a multidisciplinary program.

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Gazette Café
6 Rue Levat 34000 Montpellier

In the heart of the new Saint Roch neighborhood, across from the SNCF train station, 500 meters from Place de la Comédie.

Tel. 04 67 59 07 59
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