00:00The weather is good, now let's go to Landor.
00:05Of the 100 hottest cities on the planet,
00:0798 lay within this one country.
00:10In one town the air reached 48 degrees,
00:13and so begins one of the least talked about tourism phenomena on the planet.
00:20They move, as herds always have,
00:23towards higher ground, towards the mountains where the air runs cool.
00:30Shimla, built for a few thousand, now draws 20,000 vehicles in a day.
00:35Six times what it can hold.
00:37Nainital, with roads cut for 3,000 cars, may see 50,000 on a single weekend.
00:42Far to the south, in the Nilgiri hills,
00:45the courts now ration the mountain like water in a drought.
00:48In the east, many hotels in Darjeeling are running short on water.
00:52The crown of West Bengal is also running out of parking spaces.
00:58And when too many gather to share too little,
01:01the oldest instinct returns.
01:03Now due to this traffic, there was an ambulance here.
01:06In North India, it began with a single quarrel in Rishikesh.
01:09An accusation, a crowd, a confrontation that turned violent,
01:13vehicles broken in the street.
01:15Within hours it had a hashtag.
01:16Who was saying boycott Uttarakhand?
01:20Don't shut down!
01:21There's no house!
01:22There's no house!
01:23There's no house!
01:23We're mountains.
01:25We can't die.
01:26And the anger did not stay on the mountain.
01:29This footage is said to be from Delhi.
01:30It shows a cab driver from Deiradoon warned that hill state vehicles
01:34should stop working the airport.
01:36This is Himachal, where a video of tourists flouting the rules in Shimla drew its own calls to turn the
01:41outsiders away.
01:43A quarrel between two states had become a quarrel between the plains and the hills themselves.
01:47The same heat is reshaping the mountains themselves.
01:54The glaciers of the Himalaya are retreating, leaving lakes that swell and burst.
01:59The risk of catastrophic flood has tripled with nearly a million people in its path.
02:03In one state, on one October night, such a wall of water has already taken 77 lives.
02:13So the quarrel in the hills is real, but it is only the loudest note in a far larger silence.
02:18The most visible ripple of a disturbance that runs deeper than any of us can yet see.
02:24We don't want to see that there is such a horrible tourist.
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