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Himalayas
Himalayas [Sanskrit,=abode of snow], great Asian mountain system, extending c.1,500 mi (2,410 km) E from the Indus River in Pakistan through India, the Tibet region of China, Nepal, E India, and Bhutan to the southern bend of the Brahmaputra River in SE Tibet. For most of its length, the Himalayas ... Read more
yeti
yeti a large hairy creature resembling a human or bear, said to live in the highest part of the Himalayas; it is informally known as the Abominable Snowman. The term is recorded in English from the 1930s, and comes from Tibetan yeh-teh ‘little manlike animal’.... Read more
Annapurna
Annapurna , massif of the Himalayas, N central Nepal, forming a ridge 35 mi (56 km) long, including two of the highest peaks in the world, Annapurna I (26,502 ft/8,078 m) in the west and Annapurna II (26,041 ft/7,938 m) in the east. The summit of Annapurna I was first reached in 1950 by a French exp... Read more
Beas
Beas , river, 250 mi (402 km) long, rising in the Himalayas and flowing generally SW through the fertile Kulu Valley of Himachal Pradesh and the Shiwalik Range to join the Sutlej River, S of Amritsar, N India. One of the "five rivers" of the Punjab, the Beas marked the eastern limit of Alexander... Read more
Chenab
Chenab , one of the "five rivers" of the Punjab, 675 mi (1,086 km) long, rising in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and flowing NW through the Kashmir Himalayas, then SW through Pakistani Punjab to join the Sutlej River. The Ravi and Jhelum rivers are the chief tributaries. The Chenab suppli... Read more
Douglas William Freshfield
Douglas William Freshfield 1845-1934, English explorer and mountaineer. A prominent member of the Royal Geographical Society, he did pioneer climbing in the Caucasus, the Himalayas, and the mountainous regions of many other countries. He edited (1872-80) the Alpine Journal and wrote The Explorat... Read more
Hindustan
Hindustan [Persian,=Hindu land], historical term, usually applied to the Ganges Plain of N India, between the Himalayas in the north and the Deccan plateau in the south. Used variably throughout Indian history—generally in contradistinction to the Deccan of peninsular India—it gradually... Read more
Kanchenjunga
Kanchenjunga   Kanchanjanga , or Kinchinjunga , mountain, on the India-Nepal border, E Himalayas; geologically regarded as part of the main axis of the Himalayan range. The third highest mountain in the world, it has five peaks, of which the tallest is 28,169 ft (8,586 m). In 1955 a Britis... Read more
Ravi
Ravi , one of the five rivers of the Punjab, 475 mi (764 km) long, rising in the Himalayas, NW India, and flowing generally W into Pakistan, past Lahore, to join the Chenab River, NE Pakistan. Its waters are used extensively for irrigation and were contested by India and Pakistan until 1960, when a ... Read more
cedar
cedar common name for a number of trees, mostly coniferous evergreens. The true cedars belong to the small genus Cedrus of the family Pinaceae ( pine family). All are native to the Old World from the Mediterranean to the Himalayas, although several are cultivated elsewhere as ornamentals, especi... Read more

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Himalayas, Geology of
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science Himalayas, Geology of The Himalayan Mountains...5 mi (4 km) above sea level. The Himalayas are part of a band of mountain ranges...as well as the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayas consist of four distinct ranges: the...
Himalayas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Himalayas [Sanskrit,=abode of snow], great...Tibet. For most of its length, the Himalayas comprise two nearly parallel ranges separated...northern range is called the Trans-Himalayas. The southern range has three parallel...
Himalayan–Tibetan uplift and global climate change
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...potential role of late Cenozoic uplift of the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau in driving global...Quaternary times. The formation of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau is thought to...thrusting of the Indian crust in the Himalayas and southern Tibet. The homogeneous...
Bhutan
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...valleys of the southern foothills of the Himalayas may rise as high as 101 ° F...January. The high mountains of the Greater Himalayas in the north have more severe weather...rainfall varies by region. The northern Himalayas are relatively dry, and most precipitation...
Pahari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...European-speaking peoples of the Himalayas who, however, generally prefer regional...occupy the outer, lower ranges of the Himalayas — generally between about 600...massive scarp, which even the lower Himalayas present to the flat Indo-Gangetic Plain...
Asia
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...Plain, and the Indian peninsula. The Himalayas stretch about 1,500 miles (2,410...250 to 350 kilometers) wide. The Himalayas are the highest mountains in the world...forcing Earth's crust to fold. The Himalayas are the youngest mountains in the world...
Punjabi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...rivers to the south that flow out of the Himalayas to join it: the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi...Ghaggar, which also traces from the Himalayas to the Indus and joins it about where...range in Pakistan and parts of the lower Himalayas in India. Its area is about 270,000...
Tibetans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...China and throughout sections of the Himalayas. The term "Tibet," which appeared...Asian plateau bounded on the south by the Himalayas, on the west by the Karakorum, on the...dialects spoken throughout the plateau, the Himalayas, and parts of South Asia. Tibetan is...
Mountain
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...Europe, the Andes of South America, the Himalayas of Asia, and the Rockies of North America...Alps), Aconcagua (Andes), Everest (Himalayas), and Elbert (Rockies). The Himalayas is the world's highest mountain system...
India
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations ...features fill the Indian landscape: the Himalayas and associated ranges, a geologically...major rivers from the Peninsula and the Himalayas to the sea. These three features, plus...trench between the Peninsula and the Himalayas is the largest alluvial plain on earth...

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Himalayas
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Himalayas (Skt., hima-ālaya, abode of snow). The Himalayan region is known in Buddhist sources by various names such as...
India
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...triangular in shape, most of the northern frontier following the Himalayas, the world's highest mountains. The two southern sides...Western and Eastern Ghats. Across a northern belt of the Himalayas, are the Thar (or Great Indian) Desert, the central Punjab...
cashmere
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology cashmere (in full Cashmere shawl ), shawl made of fine wool obtained from the Kashmir goat; the material itself. XIX. Kashmir , name of a province in the W. Himalayas, India.
Aciravatī
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...ancient Śrāvastī , the present-day Rapti. It is one of the five great rivers flowing from the Himalayas eastwards into the sea, and there are many references to it in early literature. The Tevijja Sutta of the Pāli...
yeti
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable yeti a large hairy creature resembling a human or bear, said to live in the highest part of the Himalayas; it is informally known as the Abominable Snowman. The term is recorded in English from the 1930s, and comes from Tibetan yeh...
Engelhardia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ...pinnate and the flowers tiny and borne in panicles . The fruit is a small, hard nut attached to an enlarged, wing-like bract . The trees yield useful timber. There are 5 species, occurring from the western Himalayas to New Guinea.
Everest, Mount
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Everest, Mount a mountain in the Himalayas, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. Rising to 8,848 m (29,028 ft), it is the highest mountain in the world; it was first climbed in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
Jumna
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Jumna a river of northern India, which rises in the Himalayas and flows in a large arc southwards and south-eastwards, through Delhi, joining the Ganges below Allahabad. Its source (Yamunotri...
Cedrus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ...The needles are clustered on short shoots. There are four species: C. libani , the cedar of Lebanon; C. atlantica , Atlantic (or Atlas) cedar: C. brevifolia , the Cyprus cedar; and C. deodara , the deodar of the Himalayas.
Punicaceae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ...a leathery rind, and has numerous seeds with partly fleshy leaves. There are 2 species occurring from south-eastern Europe to the Himalayas ( P. granatum ) and Socotra. P. granatum is the pomegranate, which is widely cultivated.

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Do we have an advantage in the Himalayas?
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 6/13/2008; 700+ words ; ...Bangladeshis have over us Italians in the Himalayas!': Teo baffled me once with this invective...do reasonably well in the glaciers of Himalayas. Like any Bangladeshi I believed that...crowd of baby-mountains compared to the Himalayas. For real high-altitude mountaineering...
The Himalayas are single subject to new English language magazine edition of Gruner and Jahr's "Geo Special" travel magazine.
PR Newswire; 5/5/1989; 700+ words ; THE HIMALAYAS ARE SINGLE SUBJECT TO NEW ENGLISH LANGUAGE...NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Himalayas are the single subject of a new English...Magazine and YM. "GEO Special -- The Himalayas" ($4.95) contains 176 pages and...
Characteristics of Monsoon Rainfall around the Himalayas Revealed by TRMM Precipitation Radar
Magazine article from: Monthly Weather Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...variability are investigated around the Himalayas using hourly, 0.05 0.05 grid, near...inherent to TRMM PR measurements around the Himalayas could influence results, PR-observed...over the south-facing slopes of the Himalayas. The moderate to heavy conditional rain...
HIMALAYAS FIGHTING AGAINST TOM.COM
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 5/10/2002; 361 words ; 00-00-0000 Himalayas Fighting Against Tom.com BEIJING...in Chinese market, another player Himalayas attracts people's notice. The company...companies in Guangzhou at one stroke. Himalayas declares that it will purchase more...
New species discovered in fragile Eastern Himalayas.
M2 Presswire; 8/10/2009; 700+ words ; ...species discovered in fragile Eastern Himalayas(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE...have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a WWF report has revealed. But this...it warns. The report, The Eastern Himalayas - Where Worlds Collide, describes a...
Joint scientific expedition heads for Himalayas
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/16/2006; 431 words ; ...Joint scientific expedition heads for Himalayas LHASA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A research...for a month- long expedition in the Himalayas. There are 12 Chinese and seven foreign...Nepal and Bhutan in the team. The Himalayas extend through all four countries. The...
OVER THE HILL; After 28 hours lost on the Ochils, Carole is off to crack the Himalayas.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 2/3/2001; 700+ words ; ...A NOVICE walker is set to tackle the Himalayas - despite almost dying on one of Scotland...me even more determined to go to the Himalayas. I'm absolutely committed." Carol...She said: "The man I'm going to the Himalayas with is a lot more experienced than Robert...
Monitoring the monsoon in the Himalayas: Observations in Central Nepal, June 2001
Magazine article from: Monthly Weather Review; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...June 2001 along the south slopes of the Himalayas in central Nepal. Radiosondes were launched...monsoon flow with the south slopes of the Himalayas, modulated by the diurnal variability...processes along the south slopes of the Himalayas are not well known or well documented...
WWF Nepal launches Global Awareness Campaign on Climate Change in Himalayas
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 4/11/2009; 404 words ; ...Awareness Campaign on Climate Change in Himalayas WWF Nepal launches Global Awareness Campaign on Climate Change in Himalayas KATHMANDU, April 11 (Xinhua...Campaign on Climate Change in the Himalayas. At the launch of the campaign here...
Expedition through Himalayas planned
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 9/16/2006; ; 574 words ; ...joint scientific expedition through the Himalayas in the middle of next month, announced...Nepal and Bhutan, all of which the Himalayas extend through, to make a month-long...research into the southern bend of the Himalayas, said Zhang Wenjing, chief scientist...