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Adjusting her binocular for a better view of the snow capped peaks around, <keyword id="6498265" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pushpa">Pushpa</keyword> kept walking in traditional salwar kameez and sports shoes. What makes her different from other women in the little <keyword id="4253959" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="kumoani">Kumoani</keyword> village is her keenness to hike and make an alternative livelihood. Just like her, there are a lot of women, who don’t mind cooking food and doing household chores but has an urge to do something else. While some love clicking photographs, some women are hiking guides. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-the-thrilling-story-of-the-indian-blogger-who-left-her-corporate-job-to-travel-the-world/articleshow/56645448.cms">ALSO READ: Traveling the world and yet earning money: Read the fascinating story of this Indian blogger</a> 
 And this exploration to find an alternative livelihood for the rural women of the <keyword id="52569" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="himalayas">Himalayas</keyword> has been powered by Voices Of Munsiari, India’s first community-run <keyword id="819905" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Instagram">Instagram</keyword> account. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-the-thrilling-story-of-the-indian-blogger-who-left-her-corporate-job-to-travel-the-world/articleshow/56645448.cms">The epicentre of this spirit </a>is <keyword id="2852036" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sarmoli">Sarmoli</keyword>, a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-the-thrilling-story-of-the-indian-blogger-who-left-her-corporate-job-to-travel-the-world/articleshow/56645448.cms">picturesque mountain village</a> in the <keyword id="1705628" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Munsiyari">Munsiyari</keyword> district of <keyword id="44522" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</keyword>. 
 <keyword id="1672234" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shivya">Shivya</keyword> Nath, the renowned travel blogger in India, who runs the-shooting-star.com, has teamed up with <keyword id="4253958" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="malika-virdi">Malika Virdi</keyword>, an avid mountaineer who has set up Sarmoli village homestays. 
 
What do they do? 
Sarmoli organizes their annual summer ritual in April every spring. The week-long <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-the-thrilling-story-of-the-indian-blogger-who-left-her-corporate-job-to-travel-the-world/articleshow/56645448.cms">Himal Kalasutra</a> festival where the locals of Sarmoli come together to run a marathon with an altitude gain of 8000 feet over 20km and watch birds. Last year, a week of meditative yoga and an introductory digital workshop by <keyword id="71187" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</keyword> was also organized. 
 With the help of Shivya and <keyword id="27385" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="malika">Malika</keyword>, the villagers have started an <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-the-thrilling-story-of-the-indian-blogger-who-left-her-corporate-job-to-travel-the-world/articleshow/56645448.cms">Instagram profile</a> to share with the world their stories. Initially, it was thought that the interest in sharing their stories may die down soon. On the contrary, their interest kept surging and some villagers became too tech savvy within short period of time. 
 
What now? 
Shivya and Malika are now aiming to crowdsource smartphones with good quality cameras, so more locals can get on board the channel. 
 
 
“Following a photography workshop in the village this April, we hope to do a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-the-thrilling-story-of-the-indian-blogger-who-left-her-corporate-job-to-travel-the-world/articleshow/56645448.cms">photo/Instagram exhibition</a>, showcasing the work of budding local photographers to potentially create an alternate income stream to fund a new outdoor education programme,” Shivya told <keyword id="824043" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Business-Insider">Business Insider</keyword>. 
 
“If you, or anyone you know is a<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-the-thrilling-story-of-the-indian-blogger-who-left-her-corporate-job-to-travel-the-world/articleshow/56645448.cms"> smartphone photographer</a> who’d like to spend a week in this gorgeous part of the mountains, sharing their art and skills with some budding local photographers, let me know too,” added Shivya.

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