That morning our guide, Kundan, had led Derek and I through rhododendron trees sprouting pink and red flowers in the April Himalayas. |
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A Japanese expedition equipped with infrared cameras will scour the Nepali Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti, or Abominable Snowman. |
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His efforts resulted in the shipment of well over 20,000 plants and seedlings, in Wardian cases, to the Himalayas. |
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Spend four days acclimatizing in Lhasa and continue across this amazing land. negotiating 17,000-foot passes through the ice-bound Himalayas. |
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The glaciers of the Himalayas, which feed the great rivers watering the farmland keeping Asia alive, are disappearing. |
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With the reassurance it would be no challenge for people who had made treks in the Himalayas, she waved them goodbye. |
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Just two months into his Fulbright fellowship, he already has a quiverful of stories about birdcalls in the Himalayas. |
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The Himalayas is the highest and one of the most beautiful mountain ranges of the world. |
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I had been to the Himalayas before but I'd never experienced high altitudes. |
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About five years ago a climber in the Himalayas claims to have seen a pair of yetis hanging out. |
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I didn't know what to make of his story of meeting two yetis in the high Himalayas. |
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At a young age he renounced the world and undertook a seeking journey to the hills of the mystic Himalayas in search of spiritual life. |
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In Indian legend, every rishi, or yogi, who possesses divine power has a retreat in the mountain vastness of the Himalayas. |
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From the duns, the terrain rises steadily toward the main ranges of the Himalayas. |
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At this height, among the Himalayas, the sky looms like a low ceiling and the snow does not have far to fall. |
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The Buddha was born in the Terai lowlands near the foothills of the Himalayas just inside the borders of modern-day Nepal. |
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Crustal thickening under the Himalayas reached a maximum during the Pliocene, although the mountains continued to grow. |
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It tells the story of a traditional trek across the Himalayas by Tibetans, looking to trade salt for grain. |
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Likewise, the bhikkhuni order never made the demanding passage across the Himalayas into Tibet. |
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The original blackcurrants grew in N. Europe and in Asia as far east as the Himalayas. |
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There are countless yogis, jnanis, tapasvis, siddhas, and rishis who dwell in the sacred realm of the Himalayas. |
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It is only in the lap of the Himalayas that he found real peace, spiritual bliss and intellectual enlightenment. |
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Chemrey Monastery, in Ladakh, perches at 3000m on a rocky mound among the arid mountain tops of the Himalayas. |
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This dense, multilayered narrative especially fascinated me because I, too, went to boarding school in the Himalayas. |
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The snow leopard, which roams the craggy, snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas, is so elusive that it verges on legendary. |
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Born in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, she is a trained nuclear physicist. |
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Even those who have climbed in the Alps or the lower Himalayas, find it hard to understand the appeal of such a brutal and capricious mountain. |
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Darjeeling is blessed with captivating views of the Eastern Himalayas and has the best hill station in India. |
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It is found in many Japanese, in the Tibetans of the Himalayas and among isolated people of Southeast Asia, like the Hmong. |
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Ronnie Robb was walking through a paddy field in the foothills of the Himalayas when the wasp stung him. |
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The ibisbill is found in high-altitude rocky mountain streams in the Himalayas and central Asia. |
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Pekin Robin is a small thrush-like babbler that ranger from the Himalayas to southern China. |
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He described it in the 1930s as the richest bird habitat in peninsular India, comparable only with the Eastern Himalayas. |
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The Indian elephant is the one found throughout Thailand, South East Asia, parts of India, the Himalayas and Borneo. |
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It helped her defuse a life-threatening situation in the Himalayas, when she and her friends were confronted by knife-carrying attackers. |
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The Himalayas, towering as high as 8,854 m above sea level, form the highest continental mountains in the world. |
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He is known for skiing big alpine faces, couloirs, and even serious ice climbs, from the Alps to the Himalayas. |
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Two months earlier my journey had begun at Hardwar, the gateway to the Himalayas, where the Ganges debouches into the plains. |
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An alternative view on uplift and climate change proposes that the Quaternary glaciations in the Himalayas could have enhanced uplift. |
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The Markhor is a goat-antelope found in sparse woodland in the Western Himalayas. |
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My 40th birthday was celebrated in the Himalayas, where I took valuable pictures of the red goral, one of the world's most endangered animals. |
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Thus, the Himalayas can be considered a region of domesticated barley diversification. |
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A project in the Himalayas diverts 6 million litres of sewage per day that would otherwise be dumped into the Ganges and uses it to raise fodder crops. |
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Carved to represent Mt. Kailasa, the home of the god Shiva in the Himalayas, it is the largest monolithic structure in the world, carved top-down from a single rock. |
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It was former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who once memorably observed that for centuries the Himalayas have protected us, and now we must protect them. |
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Often inseparable from their association with world-class mountaineering, the Sherpas of Nepal inhabit much of the Solu-Khumbu or Khumbu regions of the Himalayas. |
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Bittner separated his specimens of tyrolensiform daonellids found in the Himalayas from D. tyrolensis based on their lack of a regular pattern of trifurcate costae. |
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To his Russian Orthodoxy he added freemasonry, spiritualism, and a huge dose of the Yoga, Hinduism and Buddhism that were a legacy of the many years he lived in the Himalayas. |
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Get up onto the roof of the world, they don't get bigger than the High Himalayas, and all the rest of life just seems to fall into place around you. |
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Despite the alien culture, I felt remarkably at home in Nepal, and as I flew over the Himalayas it was with sadness that I glimpsed their silent magnitude for the last time. |
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We arrived in Ranikhet, located 1,830 m above sea level, encircled by tall pine trees and soaring deodars, commanding views of the Himalayas glistening white in the distance. |
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The Sherpas are the toughest people in the Himalayas and they do all the donkey work for most of the climbing expeditions in the Nepal and Tibet areas. |
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They leave their homes, some barefoot, to join icy, sometimes untrodden trails through the Himalayas that line the border of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and Nepal. |
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According to legend, all the sages once gathered in the Himalayas. |
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I'm very much treading in her footsteps, because she was one of the first women in this country to climb in the Himalayas and was part of the 1929 expedition to Nepal. |
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They predict that in the next half a decade or so, the Himalayas could experience intense flooding as mountain lakes overflow with water from melting glaciers and snowfields. |
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Temperatures throughout the Himalayas are, on average, rising, and the mountains are falling apart in the warming atmosphere. |
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The Himalayas make Nepal a favorite destination for mountain climbers. |
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But then, in one of those astonishingly swift changes for which the Himalayas are renowned, the rain stopped, the sky cleared, and sun shone brightly. |
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The lakes, the gardens, the chinars golden in autumn, the Himalayas all around. |
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This is what Sax shows, when analyzing possession among the Hindu castes of Central Himalayas by the devata Kachya. |
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Mosquito species associated within some western Himalayas phytogeographic zones in the Garhwal region of India. |
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Altitudinal migration is common on mountains worldwide, such as in the Himalayas and the Andes. |
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A group of mountaineers in the Himalayas died in a horrifying massacre. |
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The species, also known as Indian or Crimson Tragopan and Crimson-horned Pheasant, originate from central and eastern Himalayas. |
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Choice rhododendrons bloom among the trees, along with Eucryphias from South America and rare varieties of rowans from the Himalayas. |
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On their vacation last year they went trekking in the Himalayas. |
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I was riding a yak up the Himalayas, as you do, when I noticed I wasn't wearing any underwear. |
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Secondly, the Himalayas shed off an equally unusually high amount of melt water that year. |
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Mountain glaciers are widespread, especially in the Andes, the Himalayas, the Rocky Mountains, the Caucasus, Scandinavian mountains and the Alps. |
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Shorter migrations are common, including altitudinal migrations on mountains such as the Andes and Himalayas. |
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India was in the process of colliding with Asia, subsequently forming the Himalayas. |
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Improbably, in the Himalayas, brown bears are reportedly intimidated by Asian black bears in confrontations. |
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The Himalayas, the world's tallest mountain range, are assumed to have been formed by the collision of two major plates. |
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The formation of the Himalayas and the Alps brought about significant geographic changes. |
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In North Africa, Europe and Asia north of the Himalayas this is the only small blue kingfisher. |
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Further to the east, Tulipa is found in the western Himalayas, southern Siberia, inner Mongolia, and as far as the northwest of China. |
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These mountains were formed when Africa and America collided, and were once a chain rivaling today's Himalayas. |
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The Himalayas between Nepal and China is the tallest mountain range in the world. |
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During collisions between two continental plates, large mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas are formed. |
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The Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas and in the entire world outside the Himalayas, Argentina. |
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Microbrewery in India is not only limited to the main cities but it ts very popular among people living is Himalayas as well. |
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In India, the Kashmir Valley is home to several trekking routes that traverse western sections of the Himalayas. |
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The 12-hour train journey to Dehra Dun, a town in northern India in the foothills of the Himalayas, was a not on his original itinerary. |
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While the Himalayas make up Nepal's Northern region, the southern lowland known as the Tarai, is covered with dense tropical jungles with diverse wildlife and exotic birds. |
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One of the things I like to do is to heli-ski and have done this all over the world, in Russia, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Sweden, in India and the Himalayas. |
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The Villa Gella combines log fires and pantile roofs with sophisticated interiors, steam rooms and an ayurvedic philosophy, expressed in salt that comes from the Himalayas. |
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In Asia during the wet season, the flow of moist air into the Himalayas leads to some of the greatest rainfall amounts measured on Earth in northeast India. |
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The group also has an international programme which includes projects on medicinal plant conservation and sustainable use in the Himalayas and East Africa. |
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The region to the east of where the Sarasvati disappears, west of Kalaka forest, south of the Himalayas, and north of Pariyatra mountains is the land of the Aryas. |
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Tibetan Buddhism, which preserves the Vajrayana teachings of eighth century India, is practiced in regions surrounding the Himalayas, Mongolia and Kalmykia. |
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Northern Vietnam and the Myanmar Himalayas are the only regions in Southeast Asia that feature a subtropical climate, which has a cold winter with snow. |
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While some colours were obtained from local sources, others were imported from the Mediterranean, and rare pigments such as lapis lazuli would have come from the Himalayas. |
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The Indian climate is strongly influenced by the Himalayas and the Thar Desert, both of which drive the economically and culturally pivotal summer and winter monsoons. |
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The Himalayas prevent cold Central Asian katabatic winds from blowing in, keeping the bulk of the Indian subcontinent warmer than most locations at similar latitudes. |
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Topographically, it is dominated by the Indian Plate, which rises above sea level as Nepal and northern parts of India situated south of the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush. |
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At its greatest extent, the Mauryan Empire stretched to the north up to the natural boundaries of the Himalayas and to the east into what is now Assam. |
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Most of the winged guests have arrived from areas as far as the Caspian Sea, Lake Baikal, Aral Sea, Russia, Mongolia, central and southeast Asia, Ladakh and the Himalayas. |
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The Ministry of Tourism is preparing relief maps of the Indian Himalayas in different States in sections which when put together would spread over a width of seven feet. |
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These include countries and regions such as Spain, Slovakia, most of the Balkans including Greece, Turkey, the Himalayas, and presumably the Middle East. |
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The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas. |
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Originally from the Himalayas and standard in East Asian cooking, adzuki beans are a rich source of magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, and B vitamins. |
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The fertile Bangladesh Plain seen against the backdrop of the Himalayas. |
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Stewart was one of 35 field officers until she left the society in the middle of last year to Live in the Kingdom of Bhutan in the eastern Himalayas. |
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It is led by two-time Everest Summiteer Dawa Steven Sherpa, a passionate advocate of climate change issues who has also seen the impact of climate change on the Himalayas. |
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