Enable the Shimshal community to strengthen its physical social and cultural resource bases and empower community for the sustainable use of these resources for development and conservation of nature in Shimshal community

John Mock PhD and Kimberley O'Neil, a husband-and-wife team, are award-winning authors of trekking and hiking guidebooks published by Lonely Planet Publications specializing in the Karakoram and Hindukush mountain ranges of South Asia and the Sierra Nevada in California. They are expert consultants on tourism, ecotourism, biodiversity conservation, and parks and protected area management in northern Pakistan, Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor and the Afghan Pamir, and are avid trekkers who engage in South Asian mountain exploration. John Mock is a South Asian scholar and an anthropological linguist specializing in Wakhi language and culture, and in folklore of the Pamir / Hindukush / Karakoram / Himalaya ethnolinguistic region. Pakistan and Afghanistan (Wakhan) trekking and mountaineering information and statistics. Karakoram, Hindukush and Pamir book titles and reading list. South Asia topographic maps. Mountain travel photography.

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