indica grows wild almost everywhere on the Indian sub-continent, and special strains have been particularly cultivated for production of " ganja " and " hashish " particularly in West Bengal, Rajasthan and the Himalayas.

His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas and, most recently, Eastern Europe.

Because of their rugged topography and the rigours of the climate, the northern highlands and the Himalayas to the east have been formidable barriers to movement into Pakistan throughout history.

India's government held the view that the Himalayas were the ancient boundaries of the Indian subcontinent, and thus should be the modern boundaries of India, while it is the position of the Chinese government that the disputed area in the Himalayas have been geographically and culturally part of Tibet since ancient times.

For example, in the first Tomb Raider game manual, Lara Croft is said to have survived a plane crash in the Himalayas at the age of twenty one, and was later disowned by her parents, who are still living.

The Himalayas have a profound effect on the climate of the Indian subcontinent and the Tibetan plateau.

The plant is believed to have originated in the mountainous regions northwest of the Himalayas.

Although no part of Manchuria was glaciated during the Quaternary, the surface geology of most of the lower-lying and more fertile parts of the region consists of very deep layers of loess, which have been formed by the wind-born movement of dust and till particles formed in glaciated parts of the Himalayas, Kunlun Shan and Tien Shan, as well as the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts.

While some colours were obtained from local sources, others were imported from the Mediterranean, and rare instances such as lapis lazuli would have been imported from the Himalayas.

Although aerosol particles are generally associated with a global cooling effect, recent studies have shown that they can actually have a warming effect in certain regions such as the Himalayas.

While the Arabian Tahr of Oman and the Nilgiri Tahr of South India both have small ranges and are considered endangered, the Himalayan Tahr remains relatively widespread in the Himalayas, and has been introduced to the Southern Alps of New Zealand, It is hunted recreationally.

Those native to northern regions have small cones ( 1 – 3 cm ) with short bracts, with more southerly species tending to have longer cones ( 3 – 9 cm ), often with exserted bracts, with the longest cones and bracts produced by the southernmost species, in the Himalayas.

Geologists like Suess have found fossils of ocean creatures in rocks in the Himalayas, indicating that those rocks were once underwater, before the Indian continental shelf began pushing upward as it smashed into Cimmeria.

Bar-headed Geese have been recorded by GPS flying at up to 6, 540 metres while crossing the Himalayas, at the same time engaging in the highest rates of climb to altitude for any bird.

Many mountain ranges have been leveled, perhaps all but the Himalayas, due to the laboratories said to be underneath and the Astronomican that lays within them.

Their great significance relates to their occurrence within mountain belts such as the Alps or the Himalayas, where they document the existence of former ocean basins that have now been consumed by subduction.

They have been observed from sea levels to altitudes of or perhaps higher in the Himalayas.

Along watercourses they have been recorded at elevations up to in the Indian Himalayas, but most records are from lowland areas.

Scholars have speculated that Kālidāsa may have lived either near the Himalayas or in the vicinity of Ujjain or in Kalinga.

Mountain ice cores have been retrieved in the Andes in South America, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Tibet, various locations in the Himalayas, Alaska, Russia and elsewhere.

This saucer shaped, low-centered town lies on the great Indo-Gangetic plains of Bihar, over Himalayan silt and sand brought by the glacier-fed and rain-fed meandering rivers of the Himalayas.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

Laurasia became North America and Eurasia, while Gondwana split into South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica and the Indian subcontinent, which collided with the Asian plate during the Cenozoic, the impact giving rise to the Himalayas.

Caudates are found exclusively in the Holarctic and Neotropical regions, not reaching south of the Mediterranean Basin, the Himalayas, or in South America the Amazon Basin.

Scientists also cite other factors in the formation of monsoons, including the barrier of the Himalayas on the northern fringe of the South Asia and the sun's northward tilt, which shifts the jet stream north.

Hydrangea (; common names Hydrangea and Hortensia ) is a genus of about 70 to 75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia ( China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas, and Indonesia ) and North and South America.

The Bar-headed Goose migrates over the Himalayas to spend the winter in parts of South Asia ( from Assam to as far south as Tamil Nadu.

There are numerous species in Indonesia, the Philippines and in South East Asia, and the family ranges into southern China, India and the Himalayas.

They are widely distributed along the foothills of the Himalayas in South Asia and extending into Southeast Asia.

It breeds in mountains from Afghanistan through the Himalayas and southern Tibet to western China, and winters in the plains of South Asia.

Other mountains Laurie has climbed in his journey were the North American Rockies, South American Andes and Asian Himalayas.

Major galleries are devoted to the arts of South Asia, West Asia ( including Persia ), Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, China, Korea and Japan.

These included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

The Himalayas act as a barrier to the frigid katabatic winds flowing down from Central Asia.

India continued to collide with Asia, forming the Himalayas.

India was in the process of colliding with Asia, subsequently forming the Himalayas.

The region largely comprises a peninsula of Asia south of the Himalayas and constitutes a geoculturally distinct region within Asia.

Tibet (;, ; ) is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas.

The highest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest in the Himalayas of Asia, whose summit is above mean sea level.

The Himalayas, also Himalaya, ( or ; Sanskrit, hima ( snow ) + ālaya ( dwelling ), literally, " abode of the snow ") is a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

They occur across East Asia, from 50 ° N latitude in Sakhalin through to Northern Australia, and west to India and the Himalayas.

Extant species of Magnoliaceae are widely distributed in temperate and tropical Asia from the Himalayas to Japan and southwest through Malaysia and New Guinea.

In Asia it is common in areas to the north of the Himalayas.

This species had a large natural distribution from Britain and Ireland to northern Africa, across Europe, Arabia, Central Asia, India, the Himalayas and up into China and Mongolia.

* European species sweet chestnut ( Castanea sativa ) ( also called " Spanish chestnut " in the US ) is the only European species of chestnut, though successfully introduced to the Himalayas and other temperate parts of Asia.

They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia.

It winters mainly in southeastern Asia, in the Indian Subcontinent, the Himalayas, Taiwan, and northern Indochina.

The Alps form part of a Tertiary orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic all the way to the Himalayas.

Other species are found in eastern and southeastern Asia from China south through Indochina to Malaysia and southwest to the Himalayas.

The gooseberry is indigenous to many parts of Europe and western, south and southeast Asia, growing naturally in alpine thickets and rocky woods in the lower country, from France eastward, well into the Himalayas and peninsular India.

In North Africa, Europe and Asia north of the Himalayas this is the only small blue kingfisher.

The Alpine Chough breeds in mountains from Spain eastwards through southern Europe and the Alps across Central Asia and the Himalayas to western China.

When India collided with Asia approximately 50 million years ago, many geographical features in the region were forced upwards to enormous heights, forming such landmarks as the Himalayas, Qinghai Shan, the Tibetan Plateau, and the eastern Burma massif.