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A Russian adventurer on a maiden paragliding trip over the east Himalayan Mountains came very close to filming his own demise when he collided with two vultures in mid-air. The frightening encounter was filmed by the paraglider's helmet-cam.
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Of late, all is not well with the world’s most wanted caterpillars: the Cordyceps mushrooms, grown exclusively in the Himalayan region.
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Kathmandu -
I was traveling to Teenpiple, a village in Panchkhal, valley of Nepal, and it takes a good two-and-a-half hours to get there from the capital city of Kathmandu.
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Researchers in the UK have demonstrated nature’s talent for cross-breeding plants to create new flowers. These findings may help explain the rich biodiversity of the natural world.
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The United Nations climate panel that had recently claimed that ice was disappearing from the Himalayas, based its assumptions on a student's dissertation.
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Millions of dollars were granted to support the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) erroneous claims, one that stated that the Himalayan Glaciers would melt by 2035.
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Escaping China has never been easy for Tibetan, Uyghur or other refugees who must cross high glaciers to do so, but the fact that Nepal's present government includes pro-Chinese, Maoist elements makes it worse.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal.
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Global warming could melt most Himalayan glaciers and cause severe hunger in Africa by the 2030s, according to the U.N.
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THIMPHU - The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, after being closed to the outside world for centuries, is cautiously opening up to individual tourists.
Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom squeezed between China and India, opened its door to tour groups in 1974, r...
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 A plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal on Monday, killing 15 people and critically injuring six.
Pakistan has promised it will not stop until it recovers all the bodies of those killed when an avalanche swept through a military base in the Himalayas.
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Thanks to the community initiative to dig a pond, this year, villagers in Teenpiple, Nepal have received a good harvest of corn
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Himalayas Blogs
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A material derived from seeds of a tree, sometimes called the "miracle tree", could purify and clarify water...
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The 6,000 number may be a trifle arbitrary, but when you consider the geologic blink of human history (the dinosaurs...
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