Water Heroes: Chewang Norphel – The “Ice Man”
The “Ice Man”. Sounds like a pretty cool super hero, and he kind of is. But you won’t find this super hero up on the big screen; you’ll find him in the Himalayas. The Ice Man is actually 76 year old Chewang Norphel, a retired engineer in India that came up with an ingenious way to provide water to rural villages: artificial glaciers. Chewang grew up in Ladakh, a remote part of India high in the mountains near the Himalayas. continue reading