That makes it the second-highest construction in the world, after a train station in the Himalayas.
Five months later, the couple visited Vaishno Devi, another popular pilgrimage spot in the Himalayas.
Swertia chirayita, which grows in the Himalayas and treats several diseases, including malaria, is in particular danger.
Trekking in the Himalayas, sunning in Polynesia, exploring ruins in Peru--Carlin can't even guess at their next destination.
This is the longest glacier in the Himalayas, stretching around 25km from its beginnings on the high slopes of Cho Oyu.
He scaled Mount McKinley in Alaska, Chamonix in France and Ama Dablam, a 22, 500-foot peak in the Himalayas.
The long-term plan is for the tragopans to live in special aviaries in several Indian zoos in the Himalayas.
In the Himalayas, the numbers of endangered species like snow leopards and red pandas have been growing as well.
They also want to introduce a basic code of conduct in the Himalayas, banning firewood for fuel and the use of plastics.
Scientists say these particles disturb the monsoon system and exacerbate the melting of snow and ice in the Himalayas.
By May 2001, he was high up in the Himalayas in hot pursuit of the Yeti--otherwise known as the Abominable Snowman.
The result was that India wilted in the Himalayas just as China was coming under an adverse international spotlight for its provocations.
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So, what type of democracy has this been introduced in the Himalayas?
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Arrangements are being made to recover the body of a Northern Ireland climber who died while on an expedition in the Himalayas.
The insanely upscale, searingly chic Amanresorts is offering 6 or 7-night Poppy Treks from 10, 000 to over 13, 000 feet high in the Himalayas .
From rafting the Grand Canyon to sailing the Galapagos to trekking in the Himalayas, the world is filled with true once-in-a-lifetime adventures and destinations.
India has asked China to withdraw troops it says have moved into disputed territory near the two countries' de facto border in the Himalayas.
The father of a backpacker who disappeared on a paraglider in the Himalayas has urged others to carry GPS devices in case they get lost.
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Perhaps it was the heliskiing in the Himalayas or the cycling in Ireland that helped Wal King, whom we glowingly profiled in 2007, keep Leighton Holdings on track.
While many people still view the ancient city of Kathmandu as a mystical Shangri-la in the Himalayas, the modern reality of life in Nepal's capital is far from peaceful.
Still, the explosive issue of Kashmir is on the agenda, and Asiaweek has learned that both sides will probably pull troops out of Kashmir's Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas.
When I decided this spring to explore Ladakh, a rugged, otherworldly corner of India hidden in the Himalayas, I wanted a photographer who had been there before, literally and spiritually.
Biki's dad, Mohan Singh Oberoi, grew up in a village in what is now Pakistan and started as a billing clerk in the Cecil, a luxury hotel in the Himalayas.
He warned that there is one potential disaster looming: the predicted melting of the glaciers in the Himalayas in 30 to 40 years which will cause catastrophic flooding in India and China.
As we turn up the road through the village that clings to the hem of Tikse's sprawling skirt, we hear the-plaintive, summoning blasts on the traditional (yes, in the Himalayas) conch-shell horn.
On a cold and rain-washed morning, high up in the Himalayas, we made our way towards the small village of Gue, just 9km from the Tibetan border, to see what surprise Suraj had in store.
The special effects, which demand that mortal peril be evaded by the narrowest of squeaks, and which culminate with the launching of life-saving arks in the Himalayas, manage both to overbear and underwhelm.
In the Himalayas alone, some 44 glacier lakes are filling so rapidly that they could burst their debris retaining walls in the next four or five years, in what are known as 'glacial lake outburst floods' (GLOFs).
Because of population growth and density in the Himalayas, hundreds of thousands may be at risk particularly in India, where the government and the United Nations Development Programme have identified 38 cities with more than half a million people located in the most seismically active regions.
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For a trip to be deductible, you must put in 40 hours of work a week. (Keep a log in case you're audited.) Tasks can range from genteel drudgery such as observing, measuring and cataloging, to more taxing activities, say, hiking to 17, 000 feet in the Himalayas to study Nepalese snow leopards.
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