This paper attempts to point out the initiations that have to be taken to enhance the morphological structure of Lukla Trans Himalaya Trails (LTHT) of Eastern Nepal. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches as well as expert judgment methods were applied to trace out the existing biophysical and socio-economic conditions of the Lukla Trail. Pointing out the environmentally sensitive areas, exploring the needs and resource base, and prioritizing the development activities that collected from local stakeholders, participatory techniques such as interactions, focus group discussion and interview portfolio were conducted with rural municipality authorities, elected members, community people, porters, tourists, and businessmen. The views an opinions given by stakeholders were analyzed in relation to how the morphological structure of the Trail could be strengthen and what type of initiation has to be taken by the governments to promote the present rural settlement structure into urban form. Review of available literature was to frame out the model for urban settlement development in mountain corridor. Tourism infrastructure, socio-economic conditions pattern of settlements, building materials, and transformation mode, biophysical, demographic and socio-cultural attributes, and regional connectivity network of local production and services were discussed in holistic way. The policy measures for land pooling, guided land development, land acquisition was also suggested to enhance the morphological structure of Lukla Trans-Himalaya Trail in order to upgrade the trail as urban center.
Findings of the study indicate that urban development in the mountain corridor is one of the emerging option that solves the local socio-economic problems in the context of remote mountain areas, satisfaction of human needs, diffusion of skills and technology by activating local politics and policy making for valorization of territorial specity through democratic government and democratization of local development in the mode of people, public and private partnership (P4).