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Promoting Uttarakhand culture online
Tribune News Service Dehradun, October 2 Mountain Shepherds Initiatives Private Limited took a giant leap today when it launched an online shopping site, Angwal, where people across the world will be able to purchase literature, music, handicrafts and films, all related to life and culture of Uttarakhand on the Internet. Sunil Kainthola, Director of the ...
Taming The Mountain
Mountain Shepherds is using adventure tourism to bolster local incomes and create awareness about the difficulties faced by the Bhotiya people. Taneesha Kulshresthra Business Outlook, September 4, 2010 Mission To turn villagers into guides and hospitality providers for tourists, so they get a fair share of profits from tourism. Benefits Villagers have alternative sources of ...
Gear for the Garhwal 2010
Missoula gear drive to begin for mountain guides in India’s Garhwal It’s time to pony up for Gear for the Garhwal. The program benefits indigenous mountain guides in the Garhwal region of northern India. The gear drive is run by Eric Legvold and a University of Montana affiliate program called the Nature-Link Institute, which offers ...
2009 Nature Link Trip
Nature Link headed to Garhwal once again this year for its now well established India Study Abroad programme. Photo Gallery
Clouds over the Goddess Mountain
RANIKHET – From this Himalayan town about 380 kilometers from Delhi, my first view of mystical Nandi Devi was one of those velvet-cloaked, sledge-hammer moments in life that softly stuns the senses and leaves one wordless. Golden early morning sunlight lit the snow-capped 7,800-meter peak, India’s highest, as Nanda Devi glowed with strength, stillness, purity, ...
Nanda Devi Documentary
Watch this well made documentary from Indian Public Television by Aparna Katara Sharma: View this movie at cultureunplugged.com The documentary visits some familiar friends although leaves out the big questions about the complicated role of governments, contractors, and regional economic, ecological, and even foreign policies at play.
Mountain Shepherds Case Study
In 2008, EQUATIONS published a dossier entitled, “Redefining Tourism – Experiences and Insights from Rural Tourism Projects in India”, that brought together the experiences of policymakers, implementers and community members working on ecotourism projects throughout the country. Mountain Shepherds was one of its case studies (pp. 90-99), and our experiences have been included in this ...
Time Covers MS: "Fresh Heights"
In a recent Time Magazine article covering Uttarakhand as an alternative trekking and tourism spot to troubled Tibet and Nepal, Mountain Shepherds was cited as one of the key travel companies. Check it out: Diversions: Fresh Heights By MELISSA BELL TIME Magazine, May 29, 2008 Tibet and Nepal, the long-standing darlings of the Himalayan tourist ...
Historical-Cultural Map of Uttarakhand
First released in 2007 at a special function hosted by PAHAR and Mountain Shepherds, this one-of-a-kind 36″ by 23″ historical-cultural map of Uttarakhand by Rajiv Rawat is provided here in PDF format at full print quality. Mountain Shepherds also maintains a stock of prints at its office. Five years in the making, this unique endeavour attempted ...
New map to mark decade of Uttarakhand online
Even before the creation of Uttarakhand, the state was born in cyberspace with uttarakhand.org in 1997. Now ten years later, the first historical-cultural map of Uttarakhand is being released to celebrate this milestone with friends from PAHAR and Mountain Shepherds. Produced by uttarakhand.org creator Rajiv Rawat, the map is the first of its kind and ...
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