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	:: APMN \| mountains - The Himalaya ::
		The word Himalaya is a compound of Sanskrit words, hima for snow and alaya for abode, referring to the lofty range between the Indo-Gangetic plain and the Tibetan plateau.
		The Great Himalaya, the axis and crystalline core of the whole range, is composed mainly of intruded granites and gneisses with some sedimentary remnants on the summits.
		The Central Himalaya, extending 800 km from the Mahakali-Sarda to the Mechi rivers, corresponds to the longitudinal extension of Nepal encompassing the Karnali, Gandaki, and Kosi basins.
	www.mtnforum.org /apmn/new_website/mountains/ch2_himalaya.php (1864 words)

	Rock art in Kumaon - Content
		The Kumaon Himalaya is that mountainous area of the Himalayas which is one-sixth part of the present day Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
		Kumaon Himalaya is connected by road to all the major cities of Uttar Pradesh and other states of Northern India.
		Thus, the rocks forming the Sivaliks and the Lesser Himalaya may be said to be stratified ones, whereas those forming the Great Himalaya are crystalline ones.
	www.ignca.nic.in /ra_03_cn.htm (1401 words)

	Private tours to Bhutan: Jachung Travel
		Bhutan is a land-locked country lying in the eastern Himalayas and is nestled between Tibet (to the north) and India (to the south, east, and west).
		Southern Bhutan lies at the foothills of the Himalayas and is mostly semitropical forest and bamboo jungle, and the altitudes there range from roughly 300 meters to 1,350 meters.
		In the Great Himalaya areas at the northern and western borders, it snows year-round.
	www.jachungtravel.com /geography.html (631 words)

	Rising Himalaya: Advent and intensification of monsoon
		The ground was covered by a thick mantle of soil as testified by influx of great quantity of clay in the foreland basin and in the Indian Ocean during that period.
		Revival of movements on faults that delimit the boundaries of four terranes of the Himalayan province was responsible for spectacular uplift of the Himalaya approximately 8 m.y.
		This paper brings together various lines of evidence which indicate that the changes in the Himalaya and those recorded in the sediments of foreland basin and in northern Indian Ocean are the direct consequences of seasonal monsoon rains resulting from abrupt dramatic though episodic uplift of the Himalaya.
	www.ias.ac.in /currsci/feb25/articles17.htm (4738 words)

	Himalayan Research Bulletin
		Tirtan River Headwaters, Great Himalaya National Park, Himachal Pradesh, India
		The Tirtan River is one of three major watersheds that comprise the Great Himalayan National Park.
		We saw approximately 20 wild ungulates walking single file across the snowfields in the background at sunset the day before this picture was taken.
	www.himalayan.pdx.edu /Photo_15.htm (112 words)

	Context
		Due to the soft limestone composition of the Himalaya, rivers which existed before the great upthrust have kept pace with the mountains' growth, cutting the world's deepest gorges through the ridge lines.
		The Garhwal, lying in the extreme north of India's Uttar Pradesh State, is a 275-mile expanse of the Great Himalaya Range, separated from the Punjab Himalaya to the west by the Sutlej River and from the Nepal Himalaya to the east by the Mahakali River (the Indo-Nepal border).
		An interesting example is the Bhotia, traditionally traders who crossed the high passes each summer to attend the great commercial fairs of Tibet.
	www.taletwist.com /context.htm (1378 words)

	Asia Pacific Mountain Profile
		Although the crest zone of the Great Karakoram is conventionally so called, the individual sections of high mountains are known as muztagh (ice mountain).
		The area is the most heavily glaciatedoutside sub-polar latitudes: 28 to 50 per cent compared to eight to 12 per cent for the Himalayas and 2.2 per cent for the Alps.
		The highest peak in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,690m) which, according to legend, is guarded by giant frogs (boguzai) and phantom maidens who meet climbers with bowls of milk or blood: drinking the blood leads to certain death.
	www.mtnforum.org /apmn/4,2(c).htm (4014 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		The great European explorer geologist of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries remained obsessed with the topographic aspects of mountains and sought the continuation of the Himalaya eastwards into China, while labelling the westward continuation the Hindu Kush.
		But the great majority of geologists, living in Europe and North America, unfamiliar with the Gondwana rocks (for the term is applied to then were they are found), and often frankly disbelieving the interpretation of the ice deposits as correct, ware able to prevent general acceptance of the concept.
		The Himalaya, essentially part of the Peninsula be- fore uplift took place, are not just simply uplifted but are thrust southwards over the Peninsula, and indeed in part over the Siwaliks, which are really nothing more than material lovely accumulated as the rising Himalaya were eroded.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /02feb04/edit.htm (4685 words)

	THE GNOSIS AND THE LAW
		The Great Vaisasvata Manu is responsible for the evolution and restoration in a similar activity of the Fifth Root Race and all of its Sub-races.
		In the case of the Great Himalaya, the possession by the Manu was at the age of twelve.
		It will come when the Earth's axis is straightened and the great jungles and morasses and all of the reptiles, the insect life and vicious foci in South America are redeemed and transmuted and that continent becomes the beautiful paradise which it is destined to be.
	www.1spirit.com /eraofpeace/gnosis/1chap7.html (2265 words)

	venture in the Great Himalaya national park
		The highest mountain ranges in the world and geologically speaking, the youngest, the Himalayas offer some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world.
		Nearest airport to Great Himalayan National Park is Bhuntar near Kullu at a distance of around 60 kms.
		Joginder Nagar near Mandi is the nearest railhead for the Great Himalayan National Park.
	us.makemytrip.com /indiabest/great_himalaya.htm (395 words)

	Incredible India
		Together they encompass a unique transition zone between the mountain ranges of the Zanskar and Great Himalaya, praised by mountaineers and botanists for over a century and in Hindu mythology for much longer.
		Criterion (iv): The Valley of Flowers is internationally important on account of its diverse alpine flora, representative of the West Himalaya biogeographic zone.
		The rich diversity of species reflects the valley's location within a transition zone between the Zaskar and Great Himalaya ranges to the north and south, respectively, and between the Eastern and Western Himalaya flora.
	www.incredibleindia.org /heritage/nanda_devi.htm (350 words)

	Jammu Kashmir,Jammu and Kashmir,Tourism in Jammu Kashmir,Travel Jammu & Kashmir in India
		The Himalaya, roof of the world, is a magic place where the magnificence of the world’s highest mountains is mirrored in the rugged beauty and unique culture of the people who live in their shadow.
		Being in a complete rainshadow region, cut off from the monsoon clouds by the Great Himalaya and a host of subsidiary ranges, it is a cold high altitude desert where the wind, water from the minimal winter snows, and chemical reactions within the rocks themselves, have carved a fantastic, sometimes grotesque, landscape.
		The great majority of the population resides in the lower reaches of the valley.
	www.travel-himalayas.com /india-himalayas-travel/jammu-kashmir.html (916 words)

	india's occupation of ladakh
		So it was with great trepidation that I was returning to Ladakh to see what changes the "advance" of modernity brought by the Indian occupation and mass tourism had wrought on this most amazing land and its people.
		While trekking in the Himalaya, oftentimes at the end of a long day's hike, one can look back down a valley, seemingly to the very edge of the Earth, and be astonished to see one's starting point so immensely far away.
		In spite of its great height, this was a comparatively easy pass, with the rest-stop of the village of Khardung near the top on one side, and Leh nearby on the other.
	www.stateofnature.org /indiasOccupation.html (4995 words)

	:: Disable Newlife Center, Nepal ::
		Its altitude varies from 60-220m in the Gangetic Plain in the south, rising to 8,848m at the summit of Mount Everest in the north.
		The variation in climate, population and vegetation is as great as the variation in altitude.It has 10 out of 14 of the world's highest mountains, including the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.
		After the first year, mortality amongst children in the countryside is twice as great as for those in towns, a reflection of the lower family incomes, poorer healthcare facilities and less efficient immunisation programmes in rural areas; the situation is particularly chronic in the hills and mountains.
	www.disablednewlife.org.np /nepal.htm (1018 words)

	Plants of Nepal: The Himalaya
		The Himalaya can be divided into the main Great Himalaya range, the Cis-Himalaya lying to the south, and the Trans-Himalaya to the north.
		The Himalaya is one of the most dramatic examples of plate-tectonic forces in the world.
		The formation of the Himalaya was not a single event, as there have been several major mountain-building episodes and the process continues today.
	rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk /nepal/himalaya.html (703 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Winter 2007 - Himalaya Melting
		The Great Himalaya is home to thousands of glacial lakes.
		Since the mid-1970s, average air temperatures across the Himalaya have risen by 1 degree centigrade, with higher sites warming twice as much as middle elevations.
		Glaciers reflect sunlight back into the atmosphere, but as they recede, more heat-absorbing rock and impounded glacial lake water are exposed to the sun, raising ambient temperatures and intensifying the melting process.
	www.nrdc.org /onearth/07win/himalaya1.asp (847 words)

	Malpa rockfall disaster, Kali valley, Kumaun Himalaya
		The Great Himalayan terrane comprises Precambrian ‘Central Crystalline Zone’ divided into the Vaikrita Group of sillimanite–kyanite–garnet schists and gneisses, calc-silicate rocks and migmatite and intrusive Tertiary granites in the north and the Munsiari Formation made up of sericite–chlorite schist, micaceous quartzites, carbonaceous phyllites, lenticular marble and mylonitized porphyroblastic granodiorite and augen gneiss in the south
		Epicentral map of the northeastern Kumaun Himalaya and adjoining northwestern Nepal.
		The northeastern part of the Kumaun Himalaya and the adjoining area in Nepal is seismically active.
	www.ias.ac.in /currsci/feb25/articles13.htm (995 words)

	Great Northern Himalaya - Trekking in Northern Himalaya,Holiday Trekking in Northern Himalaya,Trekking Holiday in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We - Great Northern Himalayas open a gateway for Indian adventure tourism and offer a stimulating experience of life; with the escapade among the fascinating hills, valleys, jungles and rivers of India.
		During the trek there are many views of the surrounding peaks and the Kuari Pass (4200m) itself has an unrivaled panorama of the Great Himalayan peaks including Nanda Devi (7816m), Changabang (6864m), Dunagiri (7066m) and Kamet (7756m).
		This is a great way to explore the outdoors Accommodation is in twin bedded luxury tents with a living area of the size of 12 x 12 ft having twin beds.
	www.indiamart.com /gnh (1213 words)

	India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bilham, R., Slow tilt reversal of the Lesser Himalaya between 1862 and 1992 at 78°E, and bounds to the southeast rupture of the 1905 Kangra earthquake, Geophys.
		Bilham, R., Earthquakes in India and the Himalaya: tectonics, geodesy and history, Annals of Geophysics, (2004), 47(2), 839-858.
		The seismic zonation map of India has notable gaps in and south of the Himalaya, where great earthquakes have not occurred in the past 200-300 years but where they are likely to occur in the future.
	cires.colorado.edu /~bilham/India.html (1607 words)

	Home > Great Himalayan National Park
		The Himalayas have been a source of awe and inspiration for millennia to countless individuals.
		The Himalaya are also one of the most fragile mountain regions of the world and hold an enormous repository of biological diversity which is increasingly under pressure from human activities.
		The unique ecological aspects of the Western Himalaya led to the creation of the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in the Kullu district of India's mountain state of Himachal Pradesh.
	www.greathimalayannationalpark.com /GHNP_home.htm (162 words)

	Workshop Thumbnail View \| TrekEarth
		Bounded by two of the world's mightiest mountain ranges, the Great Himalaya and the Karakoram, it lies athwart two other, the Ladakh range and the Zanskar range.
		In geological terms, this is a young land, formed only a few million years ago by the buckling and folding of the earth's crust as the Indian sub-continent pushed with irresistible force against the immovable mass of Asia.
		Drass, Zanskar and the Suru Valley on the Himalaya's northern flank receive heavy snow in winter; this feeds the glaciers whose meltwater, carried down by streams, irrigates the fields in summer.
	www.trekearth.com /workshops/251123 (353 words)

	Geologists find a new active fault in Nepal
		The new fault is found in an area where there is a dramatic change in the structure of the landscape, and it's in a region where the rainfall and erosion rates are among the highest in the world.
		The new active fault is at the base of the Great Himalaya in Central Nepal, about 60 miles from Kathmandu.
		Heimsath and colleagues speculate that there may be some sort of feedback mechanism between erosion and tectonic movement, which might help reduce the potential energy accumulated by the uplift of the Himalaya and the formation of the Tibetan plateau, a vast region where the mean elevation is over 16,000 feet.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-04/dc-gfa041805.php (507 words)

	Welcome to Travelvirus - the Indian subcontinent travel experts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Visit India, the land of mystery, the land of religion and spirituality, the land of culture and heritage and the land of the maharajahs, for a travel experience unrivalled.
		Discover the contentment in snow-clad Himalayas, the soothing backwaters of kerala, the tranquil beaches, the enchanting waterfalls and the magnificent desert palaces.
		Bhutan, nestling in the heart of the great Himalaya, has for centuries remained aloof from the rest of the world.
	www.travelvirus.com (379 words)

	Indian Himalayas,India Himalayas Trekking,Trekking in Himalaya,Trekking Tours, Trek in Himalayas, Himalaya Trek
		The most extraordinary thing about Himalaya is the way they have been formed in three parallel ranges known as Great Himalaya, the Lesser or the Central Himalaya and the Outer or the Siwalik Himalayas.
		About 40 km in width, encompassing the valleys of the rivers rising behind the great Himalaya, these river basins are at an altitude of 3600m to 4250m.
		Trekking in the Himalayas does not require the sophisticated equipment or preparations needed for a climbing expedition, nor does it pose any particular danger or risk to life.
	www.garhwaltrekking.com /indian_himalayas.html (760 words)

	ISS EarthKAM: Tibet: Mountains
		The Himalayas (the Abode of Snow) are the world's highest mountain range, containing all top ten of the world's highest peaks.
		In the places where the Himalayas consist of separate clusters of mountains, which grouped together by regions are called Himals, such as the Gharwal Himal.
		This area has also been called the Tethys Himalaya by geologists and the reason for that name is told by the story of plate tectonics.
	www.earthkam.ucsd.edu /public/images/investigations/tibet/mountains.shtml (398 words)

	The Great Himalaya Adventures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On some passes it is recommendable for the pillion riders to move to the jeep.
		A quotation: "Even our first day in the Himalayas exceeds every description...When he explains his plan to travel on the Jalorie pass, his Indian friends laugh and judged that it would be impossible.
		The air is crisp and clean in the mountains and the days are usually sunny and warm, but the Himalaya is always unpredictable so we need to be prepared for any eventuality.
	www.classic-bike-india.com /english/Tours/himalayas_e.htm (2678 words)

	Himalayas
		Nepali HIMALAYA, great mountain system of Asia forming a barrier between the Tibetan Plateau to the north and the alluvial plains of the Indian subcontinent to the south.
		The backbone of the mountain system is formed by the Great Himalayas a single high range rising above the line of perpetual snow to its maximum height in Nepal and having in that section 9 of the 14 highest peaks in the world.
		The Himalayan ranges' most characteristic features, in addition to their great heights, are their snowcapped and steep-sided jagged peaks, extremely large valley glaciers, deeply cut river gorges, and rich temperate and Alpine vegetation.
	www.fortunecity.com /marina/pier/650/himalayas.htm (307 words)

	Bhavana Society \| Resources \| Books \|Bhante Rahula Books \| Traversing the Great Himalayas
		As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.
		This is the account of one of these journeys, made in 1997 from Richikesh to Leh.
		I crossed the high plateaus and peaks of the Great Himalaya and walked down her valleys and bathed in the streams.
	www.bhavanasociety.org /resource/traversing_the_great_himalayas/printer (205 words)

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