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The Amarnath Yatra has been suspended for several days due to severe weather conditions across the pilgrimage route, with heavy rainfall and dangerous conditions making passage unsafe. The suspension covers both the Pahalgam and Baltal routes. Pilgrims already at base camps have been advised to remain in place.

Nearly 400,000 pilgrims have visited the Amarnath cave shrine so far this season. Among what they have visited is a cave whose central feature, the ice Shivling, the naturally formed ice stalagmite that gives the shrine its religious significance, has melted. The formation, which once reached several feet in height and was the focal point of the pilgrimage, has been reduced by the accelerating glacial retreat and rising temperatures that Kashmir's worsening ecological crisis has produced. An occupation that has cleared forests, built military infrastructure across mountain terrain, diverted rivers, and contributed directly to the environmental degradation of one of the world's most sensitive high-altitude ecosystems has brought hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to venerate a formation that the same occupation's environmental impact has helped destroy.

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