K2 is beginning to look a lot like Everest
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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Tourism
K2: 6 women achieve milestones in mountaineering
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
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
News Desk In a wide-ranging conversation last weekend, Denis Urubko gave his take on the current and future state of
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First Global Youth Tourism Summit gets underway
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
Herald Report SKARDU: Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Skardu International Airport saying it will promote international tourism in the
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Tourism & plastic pollution: winners of Students’ League contest announced
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
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: Ashab Baig Commercial greed, unplanned construction and unregulated tourism are defacing the natural beauty of Hunza. HAH Photo My
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UNWTO opens call for ‘best tourism village’
The UNWTO initiative to search for ‘Best Tourist Village’ aims at making tourism a positive force for transformation, rural development and community well-being, and to maximise the contribution of the sector to reducing regional inequalities and fighting against rural depopulation.
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Ban on tourism during Eid holidays
by Gul Nayab Kaiser Islamabad, April 27: The government has further tightened restriction on travel and tourism and called for
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Corona pandemic hits Tajikistan’s tourism sector
Only 0.35m tourists visited the Central Asian country last year as compared to 1.25m in the previous year, says an
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Rebuilding tourism in a safe, climate-friendly way
The global community unites to celebrate “tourism and rural development” High Asia Herald Report Summer holidays used to be the
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A year in the Pamirs — a traveller’s tale
Jennifer Charlotta Suzdak I’ve been in these mountains for nearly a year! That was not something I had planned on.
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Yak herding is vanishing in Upper Mustang. So are the yaks.
Amid geopolitical concerns, a changing climate and the increasing intrusion of the modern world, young nomads are abandoning their traditional
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