Chewang Norphel is an Indian civil engineer from Ladakh, who has built 12 artificial glaciers. He has earned the nickname Ice Man. He was born on December 22, 1936 in Leh. He completed a diploma course in civil engineering from Lucknow in 1960. In June 1960, he joined the rural development department of Jammu and Kashmir in Ladakh as a civil engineer. Chewang pioneered the first artificial glacier in 1987 in Phuktse Phu Village. As a result of his efforts the agriculture production increased, thereby increasing the incomes of the locals. In 1996 Chewang joined the Leh Nutritional Institute as a project manager for watershed development. And that is from where his actual journey of building artificial glaciers began. In 2015, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, to recognize his outstanding efforts in solving the water problem in higher altitude areas. Chewang Norphel now believes that building dams and glaciers was easy for him, and the real challenge now lies in training enough villagers before he dies. In his efforts to train villagers, he has made instruction CDs which can be passed on to the younger generations.