The Himalayas are widely regarded as a bellwether of climate change, where receding snowlines, glacial lake outburst floods, and increasingly extreme weather events are transforming human and more-than-human lifeworlds. Yet climate change is experienced not only as environmental disruption but also through changing temporalities, social relations, and expectations of the future. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research and collaboration with high-altitude agropastoralist communities in Limi Valley, north-western Nepal, this article examines how overlapping temporalities of environmental change are negotiated through gendered and generational forms of agency. It focuses particularly on women’s roles as custodians of living heritage and on the experiences and aspirations of younger generations in a valley increasingly affected by environmental disasters, depopulation, and a wider sense of crisis. The ethnographic analysis shows that climate change in Limi is experienced through multiple and sometimes jarring temporal horizons rather than as a singular trajectory of environmental decline. While men, particularly monks and officials, have traditionally been recognised as knowledge holders and decision-makers, women increasingly engage in practices that combine the preservation of the spiritual and cultural significance of place with innovation and community resilience. Their support for local schooling is particularly significant in enabling children to remain connected to the village while accessing formal education. Children and younger generations consequently become important actors in negotiating possible futures. These practices challenge totalising narratives of climate crisis and demonstrate how gendered and generational agency can produce creative responses to environmental disruption. The article argues that attending to Limi’s plural temporalities and more-than-human relations can broaden understandings of climate resilience beyond binary distinctions between modernist scientific approaches and ‘other’ forms of knowledge, revealing how different onto-epistemologies interact in shaping possible futures.

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