Sustainable MOUNTAINS, resilient COMMUNITIES.

International Mountain Day is celebrated annually to promote awareness for mountain communities around the globe. The theme of this year is sustainable mountain tourism. And whether it is mountain communities as whole on tourism in particular life in the Himalayas the biggest mountain in the world revolves around the communities that live in it whether nomads and sherpas in the high or farmers in the foothills.

For the ecologically and economically fragile mountain villages to survive, it is imperative that communities are made resilient. Sustainable mountain tourism is just one facet of this resilience, a study of villages bordering Jim Corbett National Park and Bhimtal in Uttarakhand has shown.