When Dalai Lama was gifted a block of glacial ice

Sonam Wangchuk and his team went on a dangerous expedition to present a block of ice to the Dalai Lama. Here's why...

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00:00The glaciers of Khardung La are melting very fast.

00:30So finally, to make sure that the ice doesn't melt in the next three days, 72 hours till

00:48it reaches Dharamshala through the hot plains of India with plus 45 degrees, we are using

00:53as insulation, something very natural, something very local, Ladakhi, Kashmir fiber, Pashmina.

01:14Here we are, securely seated, the holy ice from the glaciers of Khardung La.

01:43Very happy that we are here, arrived safely with the ice from the Khardung La glacier.

01:55Your Holiness, our team from Ladakh brought this to you to highlight the urgency of climate

02:02change in the Tibetan plateau from Ladakh to Lhasa to Thawang.

02:10I really appreciate more and more people now really showing a sense of concern of world

02:30I consider it very important that spiritual leaders like His Holiness and all the religious

02:47spiritual leaders of the world must consider it a responsibility of theirs to promote climate

02:58friendly lifestyle.