http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org Community-Owned Eco-Tourism in the High Himalayas Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:48:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a recent Time Magazine article covering Uttarakhand as alternative trekking and tourism spot to troubled Tibet and Nepal, Mountain Shepherds was cited as one of the key travel companies. Check it out: Fresh Heights By MELISSA BELL TIME Magazine, May 29, 2008 Tibet and Nepal, the long-standing darlings of the Himalayan tourist trade, ... http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2008/05/time-covers-ms-fresh-heights/ Mountain Shepherds has a new brochure out. You can preview it here by clicking on the thumbnails: Cover Inside http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2008/04/new-brochure/ Here are the first of our video travelogues, highlighting our Kuari Pass Trek and our newly introduced Yoga Trek option. http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2008/02/kuari-pass-trek/ Anusha Subramaniam, reporter for India's leading business magazine, Business Today, recently trekked with Mountain Shepherds and returned with this report: Backpacking with hill shepherds NOVEMBER 5, 2007 Lata Village, Niti Valley It started off as my much awaited trek in the Garhwal Himalayas and turned into an impressive first-hand account of a small, ... http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2007/12/business-today-backpacking-with-hill-shepherds/ [gallery] A report by Divya Naithani During a trek in the Himalayan range Yoga sessions were conducted as a trial from 3rd and 18th June 2007. The participants were university students from USA who were on a geographical study trip. The Yoga class was optional for the participants. The journey started from Rishikesh ... http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2007/07/yoga-sessions-conducted-during-a-trek-in-the-himalayan-range/ By Laura Caplins, July 23, 2007 One June 2, a group of students from Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA and Nature-Link Institute, Boone, NC traveled to the Garhwal regions of the Himalaya. Dr. Keith Bosak from Georgia Southern University and Laura Caplins from Nature-Link Institute accompanied a diverse group of students ... http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2007/07/georgia-southern-and-nature-link-institute-visit-the-garhwal/ May 8, 2007 marked the beginning of an incredible three week, six credit hour adventure course for a team of fifteen students from Georgia Southern University (GSU). The students studied Sustainable Mountain Development and Mountain Geography while being led from the plains of Delhi to the towering Himalayan peaks ... http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2007/06/adventure-course-summer-2007/ On the Indo-Tibetan Frontier Justine Wilson, one of the participants of the Inaugural Nanda Devi Women's Trek, has posted her entire album of pictures from the India trip online. See it here. http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2007/02/participants-photo-gallery/ JOSHIMATH, 18 Oct: This past weekend, the last of three international teams departed for Dharansi Pass in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve as part of the Inaugural Nanda Devi Women’s Trek. Stopping over at eminent journalist Harish Chandola’s guest house near Auli, the group of four women including two Americans, ... http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2006/10/historic-nanda-devi-trek-draws-world-women/ A unique graduation ceremony took place at the Nerhu Institute of Mountaineering on Saturday, where thirty-eight youth hailing mostly from the upper reaches of Chamoli, but also from Uttarkashi and Pithoragarh districts, completed their basic mountaineering course. Organized by SPECS (Uttarakhand) and sponsored by the Winterline Foundation (USA), composed of alumni ... http://mountainshepherds.prayaga.org/2006/09/guides-for-international-womens-trek-complete-training-at-nim/