18 Facts About Shekhar Pathak

Shekhar Pathak is a historian, editor, publisher, activist, and traveller from Uttarakhand, India.

Shekhar Pathak is known for his extensive knowledge of the history of colonial and postcolonial social movements and contemporary environmental and social issues in Uttarakhand, and colonial exploration in the Himalayas and Tibet.

Shekhar Pathak has been engaged in activism for various social and environmental causes since the 1970s.

Guha mentions that Shekhar Pathak was born in 1950 in the village of Gangolihaat in eastern Kumaon.

Shekhar Pathak's father was a soldier in the Kumaon Regiment and his mother was a home-maker.

Bhatt and Shekhar Pathak co-wrote a three-volume book on the life and times of the nineteenth-century Kumaoni explorer Pundit Nain Singh in 2006.

Shekhar Pathak was a professor of History at Kumaun University in Nainital for more than three decades till he took voluntary retirement in 2007.

Shekhar Pathak has been a Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi, and of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.

From 2015 till 2017, Shekhar Pathak was involved as an expert with the India-China Institute of The New School, USA, in its Sacred Himalaya Initiative.

Shekhar Pathak has undertaken a padayatra, a trek entirely on foot, from Askot in eastern Uttarakhand to Arakot in western Uttarakhand, once every decade since 1974.

In 2007, Shekhar Pathak took upon a three-year project to study the Himalayan people along with Magsaysay Award winner, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, traversing the Himalayas, from Leh to Arunachal Pradesh.

Shekhar Pathak has undertaken several explorative journeys in Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Tibet.

Shekhar Pathak founded the non-profit NGO PAHAR at Nainital in 1983.

In 2011, Shekhar Pathak was the Vice-President of WMPA for Asia.

Shekhar Pathak was a student-activist in the Uttarakhand Sangharsh Vahini during his days as a university student.

Shekhar Pathak was an activist in the Chipko movement since its inception in 1973.

Shekhar Pathak has frequently written opinion pieces in various regional and national newspapers in India.

Shekhar Pathak has delivered numerous invited lectures and been a part of many discussion panels in universities, literary festivals, and elsewhere.