Across Peaks & Passes in Garhwal Himalaya
Across Peaks & Passes in Garhwal Himalaya

Author: Harish Kapadia

Publisher: Indus Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9788173870972

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The book contains articles covering the author's treks and climbs in the remote valleys of Garhwal during the past forty years, most pioneering explorations. There are stories of crossing passes and climbing peaks, accidents and deaths, personal injury and agony. These articles give an insight into the Himalayan areas, their history, its people and the period of development of Himalayan climbing in India during the last many decades.For a trekker there are various suggestions in this book, for discovering different passes, many unknown valleys, and the history of travel, people, culture and nomenclature of the area. There are invaluable references to hordes of peaks, both most challenging and easy, between 6000 m and 7000 m range. And for an armchair mountaineer there are personal stories, and interaction with climbers of different nationalities.With maps, line sketches, photographs and many references, the book will be an invaluable guide to all present and future mountaineers.

Garhwal Himalaya
Garhwal Himalaya

Author: Ajay Singh Rawat

Publisher: Indus Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9788173871368

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Reconstruction of the political and administrative history of Garhwal during the period 1358 to 1947.

Across Peaks & Passes in Himachal Pradesh
Across Peaks & Passes in Himachal Pradesh

Author: Harish Kapadia

Publisher: Indus Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9788173870996

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Complete With Several Maps, Illustrated With Many Photographs, Tables Of Road Distances And Trek Routes. This Book Is An Exhaustive Reference Work On Himachal Pradesh.

Sustainable Tourism Development in the Himalaya: Constraints and Prospects
Sustainable Tourism Development in the Himalaya: Constraints and Prospects

Author: Vishwambhar Prasad Sati

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 3030588548

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This book provides a detailed description of sustainable tourism development in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Though the Uttarakhand Himalaya is bestowed with numerous locales of tourists/pilgrims’ interests, tourism has not yet been developed substantially. This book describes geographical and cultural components of tourism, major types of tourism and tourist places, tourist/pilgrim circuits, case studies of the important tourists/pilgrims’ routes, trends of tourism, development of homestay tourism, development of infrastructural facilities for tourism development, major constrains and prospects of sustainable tourism development, and conclusions. SWOC analysis of tourism activities has been carried out. The book is based on the author’s observation of tourism development in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Further, large tourism data was gathered and analyzed, using a qualitative and a quantitative method, and a sustainable tourism model was developed. This book is very useful for students, research scholars, academicians, and policymakers.