There was a time when people went to Badrinath, Kedarnath, Manasarovar and other difficult-to-reach tirthas only later in life when they had fulfilled most of their responsibilities. Roads were treacherous back then and buses could hurtle down into gorges. But with improvement of infrastructure, people are not waiting for old age and going to Himalayan tirthas even in their 20s and 30s. The current Nepal disaster and various other disasters that are happening with regularity must give us pause. In the 2013 disaster in Uttarakhand more than 100,000 people were trapped and the army had to work round the clock to rescue stranded people. I do not think it was a good idea to over-promote tourism in the ecologically sensitive areas of the Himalayas. This year, records were broken when 1.5 million devotees visited Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri in the first 30 days of the 2026 yatra. Joshimath choked under a 25 km traffic jam earlier this year. Kailash Mansarovar is also seeing a massive increase in tourists. The Rasuvagadhi route in which so many people were swept away yesterday has seen an 18.75% year-on-year increase in pilgrims. Let's not get lulled into complacency by the better infrastructure. When Nature hits back against mindless development, no civil engineering can hold up. There are no easy solutions here but we need to really reduce the numbers of people clambering up over the Himalayas.