Pilgrimage threatens pristine Indian Kashmir Himalayas Every year tens of thousands of Hindus flock to the Amarnath cave, a shrine high up in the Himalayas in India's Kashmir region. But environmentalists say the pilgrims are destroying a once pristine valley, accelerating the melting of glaciers and contaminating rivers with the rubbish and human waste they leave behind. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.