Trekking boom: Balancing growth and conservation 'Till 2015, 100-150 foreign trekkers would have made Sankri their base camp by pitching tents. However, today, we have lost most of the forest cover, as more than 200 hotels, 45 hostels and around 300 homestays have mushroomed,' said Ganga Singh, a resident of Sankri in Uttarakhand.
