Understanding and quantifying mountain tourism
While mountain tourism has become an increasingly relevant motivation for travel, data on its size and impact remains scarce, a new report from the UN agencies the Food and Agriculture Organization of
Mountains
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Imbalances need to be improved
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Egbert Pelinck</font></font> , director general, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ICIMOD , Kathmandu, spoke to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Prakash Khanal</font> </font> on conservation
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Missing every mountain
To prevent collisions of aeroplanes with mountains, several major airlines have announced plans to install a satellite-based navigation system in the cockpits of planes. The equipment, called
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We have not been good listeners
The G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development in Almora, Uttar Pradesh, is among the few in the world that concentrate on issues related to mountains. Its director, <font class='UCASE'>L M S Palni</font> , dwelt on the need to develop s
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String of peaks
A mammoth ring of mountains could have once stretched from Spain to New Zealand
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MESSY MOUNT
An expedition was launched recently in a bid to clean up the mess atop Mount Everest, the world's highest peak. Fifteen Nepali climbers set out with empty sacks to collect 1,500 kg of garbage in
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WIELDING THE BROOM
With garbage piling mountain-high in Nepal, countries like Russia are now taking up the cause of cleaning up the awe-inspiring Mount Everest. Oleg Fedorov, a Russian ecologist believes that it is
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High talk
Unspeak has piled up mountains of words on sustainable development of the world's fragile peaks, and action courses seem to have been lost on the way downhill
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Uphill task completed
IN THE past century, humans have polluted the oceans, poisoned rivers and lakes, made deserts of good, arable land, felled forests, and severely eroded the mountainsides. This book seeks to protect
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Saving Everest's ecology
NEPAL will use a $3.3 million grant from the Global Environment Facility to conserve the unique ecosystem of the Barun valley on the southern slopes of Mount Everest. The valley lies in the
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A cursory collection of platitudes
Dynamics of Mountain Geosystems <br> Edited by R B Singh<br> Publisher: Ashish Publishing House, <br> Delhi<br> Price: Rs 500