The higher mountains have a special flora showing close agreement over wide intervals of space, as well as affinities with the mountain flora of the eastern Mediterranean, the Himalaya and Indo-China.

In his book on Japa Yoga, Himalaya Press 1978, Swami Sivananda states that a yogi that practices Japa with only the Om and is successful at Mahasamyama

The Caucasus, Himalaya, Karakum Desert, and Gobi Desert formed barriers that the steppe horsemen could only cross with difficulty.

This mountain is part of a series of parallel ranges that run from the foothills of the Himalaya through the border areas with Assam, Nagaland and Mizoram.

The upper Bheri drains Dolpo, a remote valley beyond the Dhaulagiri Himalaya with traditional Tibetan cultural affinities.

The Himalaya region is dotted with hundreds of lakes.

) in association with Moddie, A. D., The Himalaya, Aspects of Change.

In the past generally treated as comprising two subspecies, T. c. cyanurus breeding in northern Asia and T. c. rufilatus breeding in the Himalaya, it is now increasingly being treated as monotypic, with T. c. rufilatus split off as a distinct species, Himalayan Bluetail T. rufilatus.

* 1999: Camp Snoopy opens ; Breakers Tower is added to Hotel Breakers ; Super Himalaya is relocated to make room for Camp Snoopy ; Oceana Dolphin stadium is renamed The Aquatic Stadium with new show, Splash!

The challenging northward migration from lowland India to breed in the summer on the Tibetan Plateau is undertaken in stages, with the flight across the Himalaya ( from sea-level ) being undertaken non-stop in as little as seven hours.

The Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Himalaya, and Patkai ranges bound the bioregion on the northwest, north, and northeast ; these ranges were formed by the collision of the northward-drifting Indian subcontinent with Asia beginning 45 million years ago.

In 1993, Tandem released the NonStop Himalaya K-series with the faster MIPS R4400, a native mode NSK, and fully expandable Cyclone system components.

In 1997 Tandem introduced the NonStop Himalaya S-Series with a new top-level system architecture based on ServerNet connections.

It begins with a fine description of that giant among mountains, the Himalaya.

On December 8, 1995, Anatoli Boukreev summited Manaslu with the Second Kazakhstan Himalaya Expedition.

Namche Bazaar is popular with trekkers in the Khumbu region, especially for altitude acclimatization, and is the gateway to the high Himalaya.

They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur.

** April 15 Kangchenjunga ( 8, 556 m )-new route with Second Soviet Himalaya Expedition

** May 10 Dhaulagiri-new route on the west wall with First Kazakhstan Himalaya Expedition

** December 8 Manaslu ( 8, 156 m ) with Second Kazakhstan Himalaya Expedition

** September 25 Cho Oyu ( 8, 201 m ) with Third Kazakhstan Himalaya Expedition

* 1974 Changabang, Garhwal Himalaya ( 6864m ) ( First ascent ) with Don Whillans, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston

This heavy flow, combined with the relatively small size of the river in global terms, makes the Clutha notoriously fast-flowing, and it is often listed as one of the world's most swiftly flowing rivers, alongside Australia's Macleay and Fitzroy Rivers, the Amazon and Atrato Rivers in South America, and the Teesta River in the Himalaya.

* Palin, Michael, Himalaya, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated, 2004.

* Footloose in the Himalaya ( 1989, Michael Joseph )

As well as providing pictures for the Michael Palin books, Basil Pao made three additional photography books: Full Circle-The Photographs, Inside Sahara, and Inside Himalaya.

Himalaya with Michael Palin was a 2004 BBC television series presented by comedian and travel presenter Michael Palin.

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* Himalaya with Michael Palin ( 2004 )

* Michael Palin at the India-Pakistan border ceremony on the Pakistani side ( from Himalaya with Michael Palin ).

The polo tournament is featured in the first episode of Himalaya with Michael Palin.

Namtso Lake was featured in the BBC TV series: Himalaya with Michael Palin.

* Aitken, Bill, Footloose in the Himalaya, Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003.

* Footloose in the Himalaya, ( Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003 ), ISBN 81-7824-052-1

The largest systems -— from east to west Koshi, Gandaki / Narayani, Karnali / Goghra and Mahakali -- originate in multiple tributaries rising in or beyond the high Himalaya that maintain substantial flows from snowmelt through the hot, droughty spring before the summer monsoon.

Mythological River Saraswati / Vedic Saraswati ( also known as Saraswati Nadi, Saraswati Nala, Sarsuti and Chautang in certain places, variously spelt as Sarasvati ) is believed to have flowed during 6000 – 3000 BC from the melting glaciers of Garhwal Himalaya to Arabian Sea through the Thar Desert1, 2.

* Shambhala: Expedición al Himalaya, this B & M roller coaster is the fastest ( 134 km / h ), and the tallest hyper coaster in Europe.

10 mm / y measured by triangulations since the 19th century and confirmed by glaciogemorphological findings as well as by seismological investigations equals the uplift of the Himalaya.

* DEM files for the Himalaya / Karakoram ( Corrected versions of SRTM data )

His love of the mountains had begun as far back as 1950, when he went to the Nilgiris, Mardamalai Mountains with his son Visvanath ; this was followed by similar visits to the mountains in north India, Dehra Dun 1950, Mussoorie / Chakrata 1952, Nainital, Garhwal Himalaya, ( Hartola, 1952 ), Punjab / Himachal Himalaya, ( Dhaula Dhar Range, 1953 ) and to Kullu, Manali region leading to the three pioneering expeditions, in 1954, 1955 and 1956, beyond the Pir Panjal Range, to the inner or Great Himalayan Range, in Lahaul & Spiti regions.

When the Indian subcontinent collided with Asia during the Late Eocene / Early Oligocene, this event caused the uplift of the Himalaya mountains while closing off the eastern Tethys Ocean, thus changing weather patterns, and caused Central Asia to dry out, ultimately resulting in a dramatic faunal turnover.

Situated in the Daxue Shan mountain range, part of the Hengduan mountainous region, Mount Gongga is the easternmost peak in the world and the third highest peak outside of the Himalaya / Karakoram.

Thereafter, Lalitaditiya meets the Bhauttas ( Tibetans ) in Baltistan, in western Tibet, north of Kashmir ), then the Daradas in Karakoram / Himalaya, the Valukambudhi, Strirajya, the Uttarakurus and the Pragjyotisha, respectively.

According to classical writings, the vast region beyond Mount Hemodos ( i. e. north of Hindukush / Himalaya ) was known as Scythia.

It is therefore, very likely that the Asioi / Asii or Asiani of Strabo may have been or part of the people of Parama-Kamboja ( the bigger and the further branch of the Kambojas and Parama-Rishikas living in Scythia or Shaka-dvipa, across the Hindukush / Himalaya ) in Transoxiana region.

* Koichiro Ohmori, Over The Himalaya, Cloudcap Press / The Mountaineers, 1994.

The same text also tells us that these nations lay beyond the Himalaya ( i. e Parena himavantam ) where Himalaya here is said to refer to Pamirs / Hindukush ranges.

It is therefore, very likely that the Asioi / Asii or Asiani of Strabo may have been or part of the people of Parama-Kamboja ( the bigger and the further branch of the Kambojas and Parama-Rishikas living in Scythia or Shaka-dvipa, across the Hindukush / Himalaya ) in Transoxiana region.

: The Pinakothek houses works of artists like John Baldessari ( Man running / Men carrying box, 1988-1990 ), Bruce Nauman ( World Peace ( projected ), 1996 ), Pipilotti Rist ( Himalaya Goldsteins Stube, 1998 / 1999 ), Hiroshi Sugimoto ( World Trade Center, Minoru Yamazaki, 1997 ), Bill Viola ( Tiny Death, 1993 ), Sam Taylor-Wood ( Soliloquy III, 1998 ) and Jeff Wall with his back-lit boxes ( Eviction Struggle, 1988 ; A villager from Aricaköyu arriving in Mahmutbey, Istanbul September 1997 ).