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==History== In earlier days, pilgrims used to walk hundreds of miles to visit the Badrinath temple.<ref name=nilkantha>{{cite web|last=Wylie|first=C.G.|title=Himalayan journal : A PRE-SWISS ATTEMPT ON NILKANTA(1947)|url=http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/a-pre-swiss-attempt-on-nilkanta/|publisher=The Himalayan Club|access-date=6 June 2013|archive-date=25 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125112317/https://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/a-pre-swiss-attempt-on-nilkanta/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The temple has been repeatedly destroyed by [[earthquakes]] and [[avalanches]]. As late as the [[First World War]], the town consisted only of the 20-odd huts used by the temple's staff, but the site drew thousands each year and up to 50,000 on its [[wikt:duodecennial|duodecennial]] festivals (every twelve years).{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} In recent years its popularity has increased still more, with an estimated 600,000 pilgrims visiting during the 2006 season,<ref>''The Hindu'' newspaper, 17 November 2006</ref> compared to 90,676 in 1961.<ref name=nautiyal/> The temple in Badrinath is also a sacred pilgrimage site for [[Vaishnavism|Vaishnavites]]. Badrinath is also gateway to several mountaineering expeditions headed to mountains like [[Nilkantha (mountain)|Nilkantha]].<ref name=nilkantha/>
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