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15 unusual facts about Himalayas


Budka Suflera

In autumn 1974 the next song is recorded, "Cień wielkiej góry", inspired by death of two Polish mountaineers (Zbigniew Stepek and Andrzej Grzązek) in the Himalayas in 1973.

Dale Tryon, Baroness Tryon

To help her recover from her medical treatments, Tryon became very interested in alternative medicine and a wide variety of spiritual practices; she also decided to undertake a retreat in the Himalayas.

Dave Page

Page has made many historic mountain climbing ascents among contemporaries Fred Beckey and other notable cascade climbers of the 20th century; these included ascents in the Himalayas.

Ecoregion

Ecozone boundaries generally follow continental boundaries, or major barriers to plant and animal distribution, like the Himalayas and the Sahara.

Epiophlebia laidlawi

This species is found in the Eastern Himalayas including Chittrey, Mt. Shivapuri, Kathmandu area, Solokhumbu region, all in Nepal, where it breeds in streams between 6,000 and 11,500 ft (1,800–3,500m).

Himalayas

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

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

Isserman, Maurice and Weaver, Stewart, Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes.

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild

As well, Lionel de Rothschild co-sponsored plant-hunting expeditions to places as isolated as the Himalayas to collect seed for plant growth and experimentation.

Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush

The main feature, "Minnesota Cuke", begins with Minnesota searching for the Golden Carrot Nose of the Indomitable Snowman in the Himalayas.

Pimoidae

The Pimoidae form a relictual group along the western coast of North America, Europe (Alps, Apennines and Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain) and the Himalayas.

Rhacophorus rhodopus

So the actual situation seems to be that the three taxa refer to two, not three species, with R. htunwini being a junior synonym of R. bipunctatus – possibly a restricted-range endemic of upland forest at the eastern end of the Himalayas, though it might occur south to Malaysia –, and R. namdaphaensis a junior synonym of R. rhodopus, a species that ranges widely from eastern India to the east and south and also occurs in lower-lying regions.

Tansing

Tansing is also famous for its natural beauty, it is in a plateau of high hills which provides a view of the Himalayas and the beautiful Madi valley.

Thai highlands

Its mountain ranges are part of the system of hills extending through Laos, Burma and China and linking to the Himalayas, of which they may be considered foothills.

Vijay Bedi

Their documentary, The Policing of the Langur, made in 2009 was nominated as the best film in the Newcomers Category at Wild Screen Film Festival.Trained in movie making at the Aurobindo Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, the duo won the Green Oscars for their documentary film on the life of two endangered Himalayas's Red pandas called the Cherub of the Mist.


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A. asiatica

Albulina asiatica, the azure mountain blue, a small butterfly species found in the Himalayas

Andreas Gruschke

Other books and reports deal with Korea and the Himalayas and China, as well as two picture albums about his homeland: the Hegau and the upper Rhine.

Aulocera padma

The butterfly is found in the Himalayas from Shingarh, (Zhob, Safed Koh, Kurram, Gilgit, Chitral, India (Kumaon, Bhutan, Sikkim and Chumbi valleys) eastwards across to Abor valley, north Myanmar, west China and southeast Tibet .

Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal along with Premlata Agarwal and a group of ace climbers, which includes Mt. Everest summiteers have quietly arrived in Uttarkashi and carried out relief and rescue operations in the remotest high altitude villages of the Himalayas that have been ravaged in the 2013 North India floods, where even the Indian Army jawans couldn't reach.

Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

The Blue-Throated Flycatcher is found much of the Indian Subcontinent, all through the Himalayas, the plains and Western Ghats of India in the cold months, and also extends eastwards into Bangladesh, and to Arakan and the Tenasserim Hills in Myanmar.

Chumig Gyatsa

It is the local name for the pilgrimage site Muktinath, a sacred place both for Hindus as well as the Buddhists, located at an altitude of 3,710 meters, at the foot of the Thorung La mountain pass (part of the Himalayas), Mustang district, Nepal.

Darjeeling Himalayan hill region

Barun Roy, "Rediscovering Shangri La - The Story of the Himalayas", Mandalay Book (2006) ISBN 0-12-833263-8

Garkha

This area is lies on the mountain on the northern slopes of western Himalayas.This place is full of Rhododendron, Quercus, Myrica and Pinus forests.

Gaultheria trichophylla

Gaultheria trichophylla, commonly known as Himalayan snowberry, is a species of plant in the heath and heather family, native to the Himalayas.

Gopinath Muthukad

on 5 November 2007 that Magician Muthukad and his team set a world record by performing the Indo-China friendship magic show at Nathu La Sikkim, a historic trade corridor 14,400 feet high in the Himalayas.

Hanumappa Sudarshan

Dr. Sudarshan, after graduation, he joined the charitable health institutions of Ramakrishna Mission which took him to the Himalayas of Uttar Pradesh, Belur Math in West Bengal and Ponnampet in Karnataka as part of the job.

Himalayan Languages Project

The Himalayan Languages Project, launched in 1993, is a research collective based at Leiden University and comprising much of the world's authoritative research on the lesser-known and endangered languages of the Himalayas, in Nepal, China, Bhutan, and India.

Himalayan wolf

They were captured in the wild and are now being preserved in the trans-Himalayan region of India, at the Darjeeling Zoo in Shiwalik Hills on the lower range of the Himalaya in West Bengal, and in the Kufri Zoo with Kufri Himalayan National Park located in Himachal Pradesh province.

Indian Jungle Crow

Often grouped along with other crow species in the region, it differs in its voice from the Large-billed Crow found in the higher elevations of the Himalayas and the Eastern Jungle Crow (Corvus levaillantii) overlaps in the eastern part of its range.

Jessica Meir

Meir's current research involves bar-headed geese, which are able to tolerate extreme altitudes and low oxygen levels while flying over the Himalayas.

John Forbes Royle

For nearly ten years he held the post of superintendent of the East India Company's botanic garden in the Himalayas at Saharanpur.

Kahili

Hedychium gardnerianum, known as the kahili ginger or ginger lily, a plant native to the Himalayas

Kandali

Strobilanthes wallichii, a plant from the Himalayas that flowers every 12 years

Lahore Zoo

Bombax malabaricum- locally termed Sunbal or Silk Cotton Tree - native to Himalayas

Languages of South Asia

Most languages spoken in India belong either to the Indo-European (ca. 74%), the Dravidian (ca. 24%), the Austroasiatic (Munda) (ca. 1.2%), or the Tibeto-Burman (ca. 0.6%) families, with some languages of the Himalayas still unclassified.

Mahendra Sukhdeo

He met Nehru in Bombay in May, 1963 when he was casually engaged as an information aide for the Government of India pavilion, showcasing the lavish `Our Himalayas` exhibition.

Mal Peet

-->Cloud Tea Monkeys (1999), a children's picture book written by Peet and his wife, illustrated by Alan Marks, is set in the Himalayas and based on a Chinese folktale.

Mama Bhagne

When Rama decided to attack Ravana he found it necessary to throw a bridge across the straits for the conveyance of his troops, he drove in his aerial chariot to the Himalayas, picked up what stones he needed and drove back.

Michael Hamill

Hamill has guided 72 expeditions to altitudes exceeding 18,000 vertical feet, including 5 on Mt. Everest and 18 in the Himalayas above 8,000m (26,000 ft) (Everest: spring, 2005; spring, 2008; spring, 2009; spring, 2010; spring, 2011; spring, 2012; spring, 2013: Cho Oyu: autumn, 2002; autumn, 2003; autumn, 2004; autumn, 2005; autumn, 2007; autumn, 2008; autumn, 2010; autumn, 2011: Shishapangma: autumn, 2011: Manaslu: autumn, 2012).

Micraloa

Micraloa is a genus of moth in the family Arctiidae from Hindustan, Himalayas and Myanmar (Burma).

Nant Ffrancon Pass

It has been frequently used as a filming location for British film-makers, including doubling for the Khyber Pass in the Carry On film Carry On up the Khyber, and doubling for the Himalayas in the Doctor Who serial The Abominable Snowmen.

Pontia daplidice

In Central Asia, the Bath White ranges from Baluchistan, Peshawar, Chitral, Kashmir and along the Himalayas right across the Central Himalayas up to Darjeeling.

Portrait Werner Herzog

In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.

Protima Bedi

In her autobiography, Timepass, based on her journals and letters, collated and published by her daughter, Pooja Bedi in 2000, she gives a candid account of all her relationships, her rebellious lifestyle, her family life, the birth of her dream project, Nrityagram, and her eventual transition into a sanyasin, towards the end of her life, when she retired from public life and wanted to explore the Himalayas.

Ruritania

In 2006, Ignacio Padilla published La Gruta del Toscano (ISBN 84-204-7072-4), a novel in which Ruritanians discover a cavern in the Himalayas, somewhere on the border between China and Nepal.

S. sinensis

Spiranthes sinensis, the Chinese spiranthes, an orchid species occurring in much of eastern Asia, west to the Himalayas, south and east to New Zealand and north to Siberia

Sa Dingding

In 2006, "Holy Incense" was used as the theme song for the movie Prince of the Himalayas, directed by Sherwood Hu.

Selaginella bryopteris

Hanuman was called upon to fetch this herb from the mount Dunagiri (Mahodaya) in the Himalayas or Valley of Flowers.

Su Lin

Su-Lin Young (1911–2008), Chinese American explorer of the Himalayas

Tahr

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.

Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar

With Sur Sudha he continued to collect traditional tunes from remote and rural areas of Nepal, from Terai region up to the villages high in the Himalayas, and to arrange these melodies for concerts on stages in Europe, India, Japan and the USA.

Tarbela Dam

Because the source of the Indus River is glacial meltwater from the Himalayas, the river carries huge amounts of sediment.

Thermokarst

Thermokarst is a land surface characterised by very irregular surfaces of marshy hollows and small hummocks formed as ice-rich permafrost thaws, that occurs in Arctic areas, and on a smaller scale in mountainous areas such as the Himalayas and the Swiss Alps.

Uhl River

The river originates at the Thamsar Glacier in the Dhauladhar range of the Himalayas, flows through the Uhl valley crossing Bada Gran and Barot, both villages in the Uhl valley.