A Model for Sustainable Travel in the Himalayas
Hotels tore apart and roads cracked open when Joshimath started sinking in January 2023. In 1976, the Mishra Committee cautioned against the construction on old landslides debris but Uttarakhand received some 54 million visitors in 2022, pushing concrete jungles to suddenly mushroom up on ecological areas. In my home 300 miles to the east in…