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KKH: a wonder or woe for travellers?

By thehighasia
August 8, 2023
in :  Communications, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia, KKH, Tourism, Trade and Commerce
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KKH: a wonder or woe

The Karakoram Highway (KKH), often referred to as the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’, stands as a testament to human ingenuity and an engineering marvel connecting Pakistan and China. The 1,300-km highway meanders through some of the world's most stunning landscapes and cultures and mountain ranges, including the Karakoram, Himalayas, and Hindu Kush. The KKH offers travelers a unique and awe-inspiring journey through lush valleys, waterfalls, and picturesque villages. However, travelers must also be prepared for the challenges it presents, including safety concerns, remote conditions, and infrastructural limitations. A trail of tragic accidents and the loss of hundreds of precious lives annually on the highway reveals a darker reality that must be addressed urgently.

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Climate change effects on Gilgit-Baltistan

By thehighasia
July 26, 2023
in :  Development, Disaster, Ecology, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia, Latest, Tourism
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Climate change, neoliberal development, resource capture by the elite and the powerful as well as unbridled mass tourism have posed potential threats to the inhabitants, their society, culture, health, and the fragile ecology of Gilgit-Baltistan.

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Economic growth in G-B

By thehighasia
June 4, 2023
in :  Development, Ecology, Gilgit-Baltistan, Opinion, Tourism
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Mountain landscape

promoting real estate business in mountain regions should be discouraged as it may result in disfiguring mountain landscape, create ecological and civic problems, as well as mass scale displacement and migration of people

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Tourism & sports united for sustainability

By thehighasia
April 27, 2023
in :  Ecology, Tourism, World
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Sustainable tourism

Sports Tourism plays a key role in enhancing economic growth and social development in many destinations. It creates jobs and supports businesses in cities and rural communities alike.

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Pakistan at 75 and Gilgit-Baltistan’s future

By thehighasia
August 14, 2022
in :  Development, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia, Islamabad, Opinion, Pakistan, Tourism
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G-B Masp

By Ziauddin Ali Shah As Pakistan commemorates the 75th Independence Day, it is important to reflect upon the achievements, failures, developments and issues in Gilgit-Baltistan from different perspectives and see how, as a nation, we have reached this adversity. The region, administered by Pakistan, is home to the three largest mountain ranges and massif of snow-clad lofty peaks, scenic pastures, …

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Swat: The paradise lost

By thehighasia
August 5, 2022
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By By Asim Effendi On 1st August 2022, amid the heavy monsoon season, I traveled to Swat termed Switzerland of Pakistan, by none others but ourselves, a nation addicted to self-glorification, but sadly with a bleak future. I ensured to meet my childhood friend Honourable Shaukat Khan Yousafzai, Commissioner Malakand Division being a Swati himself, and also Honourable Prince Shahrayar …

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K2 is beginning to look a lot like Everest

By thehighasia
July 29, 2022
in :  Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Sports, Tourism
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Climbing

When 145 climbers summited K2 in a single record-breaking day last week, it made the second-highest mountain in the world look more like Everest at its crowded worst.

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K2: 6 women achieve milestones in mountaineering

By thehighasia
July 23, 2022
in :  Gilgit-Baltistan, Karakoram Ranges, Pakistan, Slider, Sports, Tourism
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women-climbers

Pakistan's Samina Baig and Naila Kiani, as well as Iranian Afsaneh Hesamifard, Lebanese-Arab Nelly Attar, Bangladesh's Wasifa Nazreen and Stefi Torguet of Andorra stand on the second highest peak on earth. Over a dozen climbers reach the summit. Afghan climber dies of heart attack

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Gilgit-Baltistan and climate change

By thehighasia
July 8, 2022
in :  Conservation, Disaster, Ecology, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia, Research Paper, Tourism
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Climate-=change

There is a need to assess these risks and challenges, and their impacts on biodiversity, ecology and human wellbeing of Hindu Kush-Himalaya regions

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Denis Urubko on Nims, O2, and the rules of winter

By thehighasia
February 24, 2022
in :  High Asia, Tourism
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News Desk In a wide-ranging conversation last weekend, Denis Urubko gave his take on the current and future state of high-altitude mountaineering — including his doubts that Nirmal Purja summited winter K2 without oxygen. At 49, Urubko bears the confident air of a veteran warrior. At the same time, he recognizes the increasing gulf between his values and those of …

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First Global Youth Tourism Summit gets underway

By thehighasia
February 4, 2022
in :  Diplomacy, Slider, Tourism, World
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Tourism

The Summit will bring children and youth from every global region together, giving them a platform to share their vision and hopes for the sector

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PM Khan opens Skardu airport, a strategic highway

By thehighasia
December 17, 2021
in :  Development, Gilgit-Baltistan, Politics, Slider, Tourism
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Imran Khan's Skardu visit

Herald Report SKARDU: Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Skardu International Airport saying it will promote international tourism in the region. He also opened the under-construction Jaglot-Skardu road during a day-long visit to Baltistan’s headquarters on Thursday. The airport in Skardu was previously only operational for domestic flights. However, its status was elevated on December 2, 2020, to receive international …

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Tourism & plastic pollution: winners of Students’ League contest announced

By thehighasia
October 1, 2021
in :  Ecology, Slider, Tourism
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Tourism & Plastic Pollution

This year the Global UNWTO Students’ League competition focused on addressing the issue of plastics pollution within the sector, as well as maximizing tourism’s contributions to rural development.

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Potential impacts of 5-star hotels on Hunza’s ecology

By thehighasia
October 1, 2021
in :  Development, Ecology, Opinion, Slider, Tourism
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Tourism

In Hunza where people are still struggling to have access to basic needs including water, sanitation, electricity, health and education luxury and hotels with high inventory will have disastrous outcomes

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Hunza on fire

By thehighasia
September 20, 2021
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Pollution

By: Ashab Baig Commercial greed, unplanned construction and unregulated tourism are defacing the natural beauty of Hunza. HAH Photo My recent visit to Hunza was an eye-opener to me in various ways. Just one year ago and during the same months, I left a prettier, greener Hunza, though concrete walls and horrid structures had already started to deface its beauty. …

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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