Why is the vision increasing with greater and difficult effort

I grew up in the capital of Nepal, watching the Himalayas. Since I left, I missed sweeping, panoramic looks of some of the top mountain peaks on Earth.

Every time I visit Kathmando, I hope to take a look at the dramatic mountain range. But these days, there is usually no luck.

The main perpetrator is extreme air pollution that hangs as fog over the area.

This happens even during the spring and autumn months, which previously shown a clear sky.

Only last April, the international journey in which I was to walk in the sky was forced about 20 times before landing in Kathmandu, due to the foggy weather that affects the vision at the airport.

The hotel I reviewed in a reasonable rise was the mountains were visible on a clear day-but there was no such one day during my stay for two weeks.

Even from the main point in Nagarkut, outside Kathmando, all that could be seen was fog, as if the mountains were not present.

“I no longer deal with the place of” sunrise, sunset and the Himalaya Mountains, “said Eugendra Shakia, who has been running a hotel in Nagarkot since 1996.

“Since you cannot get these things mostly because of fog, I have renamed history and culture as these tourist products are here too.”

During a previous journey a year ago, I was hoping to be able to see the great Himalayas peaks on a journey in the amazing Annapurna region – but there was hardly luck.

Scientists say that the blurry conditions in the region have become increasingly intense and continue for a longer period, which greatly reduces vision.

Fog is formed by a group of pollutants such as dust and smoke molecules of fires, which reduces vision to less than 5,000 meters (16400 feet). It remains stagnant in the sky during the dry season – which now lasts longer due to climate change.

From June to September is the rainy season in the region, when seasonal clouds remain instead of covered mountain fog and low vision.

Traditionally, it was from March from May to October to November the best working hours because that was when the sky remained clear and the best vision was.

But with high temperatures, rainfall shortages, air pollution exacerbated, the spring months now see thick fog with a decrease in vision. These conditions begin early in December.

Lakki Churchiri, the leading female trips guide in Nepal, said that blurry conditions led to a 40 % decrease in work.

“In one case last year, we had to compensate for a group of hikers because our evidence was unable to show Himalayas due to the blurry conditions,” she added.

An Australian tourist who visited Nepal has been described more than dozens of times since 1986.

John Carroll said: “It was not the case for 10 years, but it seems that the fog has seized it, which is very disappointing for visitors like me.”

Krishna K. says.

“The factors of our member trips are exposed to depression because there is no vision in the Himalayas, it does not mean any work. Many of them think about changing professions,” he told the BBC.

On the Indian side, near the center of the Himalayas, hotel owners and tourist organizers say that Haze is now more intense and returns faster than before.

“We have long -end seizures and then heavy rains, unlike the past. So with rare rains, fog still lasts much longer,” said Malika Verdi, who heads a tourist company run by the community in the state of Uttrangal.

However, Ms. Vindi says tourists are continuing – as many are no longer to the mountain range to try their luck again.

The western Himalayas in Pakistan was relatively less damaged than fog because the mountains are relatively far from the cities.

But the locals say that even the domains that were easily ease of places like Peshawar and Gilgit are no longer a vision.

“The fog paper is still hanging for a longer period and we do not see the mountains that we can in the past,” said Asif Shuga, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency in Pakistan.

South Asian cities regularly top the lists of places with the highest levels of air pollution in the world.

Public health throughout the region was badly affected by poisonous air, which often causes travel and school closure.

Vehicles and industrial emissions, and dust are from building infrastructure and dry gravel methods, as well as open burning of waste, main sources of air pollution throughout the year.

This doubles from soot from huge forest fires – which are increasing due to a longer dry season – and burning crop residue after harvest by farmers in northern India, Pakistan and Nepal.

Weather conditions keep the air warmer over the cold air trap these pollutants and reduce vertical air movement – preventing pollution from dispersion.

“Greens and dirt storms in South Asia are increasing, and this trend is expected to continue due to climate change and other factors,” Dr. Somacho Das of the BBC.

In 2024, the number of blurry days registered at the airport in Boukhara, a major tourism center in West Nepal, was 168 – a height from 23 in 2020 and 84 in 2021, according to the Hydrology Department in Nepal.

Experts believe that the Himalayas may be the worst mountain range in the world, given their location in a populated area.

This may mean that the vision of Himalayas can be largely limited to pictures, paintings and postcards.

“We have been dealing with guilt when we cannot show our customers on the mountains they pay to us,” said Mrs. Tantry’s trips.

“There is nothing we can do about fog.”