TY - BOOK AU - Kohli, M.S. AU - Bali, Yogendra AU - Somi, R.S. TI - Incredible Himalayas: Environment, Culture, Tourism, and Adventure SN - 8173871795 U1 - 910.954 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - Himalayan Environment Trust by Indus Pub. Co. KW - Tourism KW - Himalaya Mountains Region KW - Mountaineering N1 - I. Environment: 1. The Himalayas still are the places of great beauty to visit/Sir Edmund Hillary. 2. Incredible Himalayas/M.S. Kohli. 3. Preserve the beautiful Himalayas/Junko Tabei. 4. Climbers' impact on the high mountains/Sir Chris Bonington. 5. There is only one solution/Maurice Herzog. 6. Conservation of Himalayan ecology/Joginder Singh. 7. Himalayan ecosystem/M.P. Gupta. 8. The Himalayas: a world heritage/Karan Singh. 9. 21 century Himalayan Tourism: macro visions/A.D. Moddie. II. Culture: 10. The Sherpas/Sir Edmund Hillary. 11. Architectural heritage of the Western Himalayas/Subhashini Aryan. 12. Buddhist paintings of the Trans-Himalayas/Benoy K. Behl. 13. Rock art of the Indian Himalayas/Martin Vernier. 14. Myths, rituals and religious beliefs of Kumaon Himalayas/Manju Kak. III. Tourism: 15. Uttaranchal: Switzerland of India/M.S. Kohli. 16. Prospects of Himalayan tourism in the 21 century/M.S. Kohli. 17. Tourism development in the Himalayas/Conrad Blanch. 18. Tourism in Sikkim/Karma Gyatso. 19. Tourism in Uttaranchal/N.N. Prasad. 20. Tourism in Jammu and Kashmir/Mohammad Ashraf. 21. Tourism in Himachal Pradesh/Ashok Thakur. 22. Tourism attuned to the Himalayas/Bill Aitken. IV. Adventure: 23. 2005: the year of Indian adventure/M.S. Kohli. 24. White wilderness/Reinhold Messner. 25. My first Himalayan expedition/Ko Yoshida. 26. Adventure tourism and its activities in Manipur. 27. Adventure tourism in Bhutan/M.S. Kohli. 28. Chaukhamba: the mountain on the far horizon/Ashok Abbey. 29. Swachhand: the Silent Valley/Ashok Abbey. 30. Remembering the first ascent of Everest/Suman Dubey. 31. Adventures in North-East India/Nasim Akhtor. 32. Ski explosion/N. Kumar. 33. Indo-Pak friendship for environmental protection and peace/Mandip Singh Soin. 34. Siachen: a proposal for peace/Harish Kapadia. 35. Weekend climbing/Maninder Kohli. V. Down the memory lane: 36. My memories of Everest/M.S. Kohli. 37. The summit within/H.P.S. Ahluwalia. 38. Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi/Ashok Abbey. 39. Indian Mountaineering Foundation/N.N. Vohra. 40. Resurgence of the Himalayan Club in Kolkata/Meher H. Mehta ER -