Shekhar Pathak is an Indian historian, writer and academician from Uttarakhand. He is the founder of People’s Association for Himalaya Area Research (PAHAR), established in 1983, former professor of History at Kumaun University, Nainital and a Nehru Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies at Teen Murti in New Delhi. He was awarded the Padma Shri by Govt. of India, in 2007 and Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award in 2006. He wrote Kumaon Himalaya : Temptations (1993) and also co-wrote with Dr Uma Bhatt, Asia ki Peeth Per (On Asia’s Back), a biography of Himalayan explorer, Pundit Nain Singh Rawat. He is a research scholar at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, after which he received Scholarship from the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship. Shekhar Pathak received the KLF Environment Book of the Year Award for Hari Bhari Ummid, Vani Prakashan (2020)/ The Chipko Movement: A People’s History, Permanent Black (2020)