{"id":61422,"date":"2024-01-25T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/25\/kashmir-ski-resort-gulmarg-india-waits-for-visitors-after-one-day-of-snow-this-winter"},"modified":"2024-01-25T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:00:16","slug":"kashmirs-ski-resort-waits-for-visitors-after-just-one-day-of-snow-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61422","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir\u2019s ski resort waits for visitors after just one day of snow this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As tourists cancel trips to Gulmarg amid an unprecedentedly warm season, thousands of Kashmiris who rely on snowfall face ruin<\/p>\n<p>As evening draws near, Bashir Ahmad Bhat is still waiting for his first customer of the day. Seven years ago, Bhat, 34, gave up his job as a driver to work in Gulmarg\u2019s tourism sector. January is peak season at India\u2019s premier ski resort, attracting amateur and professional skiers from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The father of two usually earns good money during the four months when Gulmarg, in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir region, is covered in a thick layer of fine powder snow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/25\/kashmir-ski-resort-gulmarg-india-waits-for-visitors-after-one-day-of-snow-this-winter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As tourists cancel trips to Gulmarg amid an unprecedentedly warm season, thousands of Kashmiris who rely on snowfall face ruinAs evening draws near, Bashir Ahmad Bhat is still waiting for his first customer of the day. Seven years ago, Bhat, 34, gave u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,65,455,59,62,432,760,1791,61,527,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-global-development","category-india","category-kashmir","category-mountains","category-snow","category-south-and-central-asia","category-travel","category-water","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61423,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61422\/revisions\/61423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}