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Holding a remote gadget and routinely giving headings to his staff, Billa Majeed Bakshi sits on the ground at the ski lift slant, which falsehoods dry and abandoned. In any case, least worried about the long drought in the Valley and snowless Gulmarg, Bakshi's emphasis stays on the helipad and higher snow-shrouded mountain tops. He acutely notices his helicopters, shipping sightseers to the Daylight Top at an elevation of 13,999 feet like clockwork.

Since January 13 this year, when Bakshi began helicopter drives around in Gulmarg, there has been a mind-boggling reaction from homegrown sightseers. These travelers are principally keen on seeing the snowbound mountain tops.

"Like this year, there was no snow in Gulmarg in late-fall a very long time in 2015. Then we saw a monstrous snowfall. In this way, I'm as yet confident," says Bakshi. He expresses once there is new snowfall, heliskiing will begin and unfamiliar skiers will start to visit. "Yet, I tell you, unfamiliar vacationers used to be high-spending, however that has changed. Presently, Indians are spending more and outsiders are not contributing as much monetarily. We should perceive this shift and jump all over the chance," he said.

The expense for every helicopter ride is around Rs 13,000 for each individual. On January 14, more than 100 individuals utilized the office and all were homegrown sightseers. Vignesh, a traveler from Tamil Nadu, had booked tickets for Gulmarg three months prior, expecting to see snow in the Valley. Visiting Kashmir interestingly with his family , Vignesh had no designs for a drive around except for was anxious to encounter seeing snow. "So we came for this helicopter drive around to encounter snow at the mountain top," he said, while hanging tight for his chance at the Kashmir Heliski helipad.

Bakshi says when he began heliskiing a couple of years prior, he would as a rule select to convey proficient skiers yet presently most of his clients are homegrown sightseers, who favor drives around.

Conceived and raised in Tangmarg, Bakshi was just five years of age when he began skiing in Gulmarg. In 1996, when there was no Gondola or ski lift in Gulmarg, he was at that point directing vacationers. He presented freeriding in Gulmarg. Afterward, he finished a tasks in Elevated Heli Ski in Queenstown, New Zealand. Presently, he utilizes various experienced unfamiliar pilots and ski guides. Bakshi knows Gulmarg inside and out, each mountain top, each slant, fissure and individuals working there. Throughout the long term, he has safeguarded scores of boondocks skiers and snowboarders. Presently living in Canada for more often than not with his family, Bakshi comes to Gulmarg in January consistently for quite a long time to lead heliskiing.

Bakshi considers Gulmarg to be a head ski and euphoria objective yet is tormented to see many vehicles blaring their direction through the place of interest. He says the establishment of a Gondola from Tangmarg to Gulmarg and excepting passage, everything being equal, to Gulmarg would make this ski resort really a paradise. Gulmarg is known for the Gondola, which arrives at a height of 13,057 feet.

"Gulmarg is a vacationer location where everybody needs to come. Have a trolley from Tangmarg to Gulmarg, shut down all vehicles at Tangmarg and witness how this will change this ski resort," he says.