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Himalayas is a mountain range in South Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, (/ˌhɪməˈleɪ.ə/ or/hɪˈmɑːləjə/; Sanskrit: हिमालय, hima (snow) + ālaya(house), literally meaning, "abode of the snow") is a mountain range in South Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayan range is home to Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over a hundred mountains exceeding 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) in elevation. The Himalayas are also intertwined with the deep religious ethos of many religions, which emnated from the Indian subcontinent.


CONTENT : A - F , G - L , M - R , S - Z , See also , External links

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In Tibet, sunrise over the Himalaya is surely one of the most unforgettable experiences you will ever have. - Kris LeBoutiller
Mount Everest - ...to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? … - S. Chandrasekhar.
Lake Manasarovar region -The pilgrimage organised by the Ministry of External Affairs in association ...with Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam generally begins around the middle of June every year and pilgrims make their way to the heavenly abode till late September.
The geography of the Himalayas is such that all its passes lead one to the region of Kailash and Manasarovar. Western Tibet, the place of the heavenly abode of Lord Shiva, has been known to the Hindus and their ancestors since thousands of years.
In the course of his service Gerard carried out many arduous and important survey duties, especially in the Himalayas, where he ascended heights previously believed to be inaccessible, and penetrated into Tibet as far as the frontier pickets of Chinese would allow. To him we are indebted for our earliest notions of the geological structure and remains of the Himalayan ranges.- Henry Manners Chichester.
In 1895 he [Albert Frederick] was mountaineering in the Nanga Parbat group of the Kashmir Himalayas. He was last seen on 23 Aug., and it is believed that he was overwhelmed by an avalanche while traversing a snow pass. - Albert Frederick.
  • Himalayas have always been known as the abode of snow. This mountain range located in the north of India is considered to be the mystical dwelling of gods. There is a magnetic pull that draws pilgrims and tourists to this place. The Himalayan tourist centres are the toughest of all the pilgrimages.
  • The mighty Himalayan Ranges are about 2500 km long and 350 km broad. They are the highest mountain in the world with hundreds of high peaks and pinnacles above 20000 feet. The Himalayas are the inseparable part of the Indian heritage. A description of the Himalayas is found in earliest Sanskrit literature. These mighty mountains figure prominently in the Epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Ancient texts, such as the Ramayana, the Puranas, the Vedas, the Mahabharata, all sing in unison of the glory and wonder of the Himalayas.
    • Pradeep Chamariya in: "Kailash Manasarovar on the Rugged Road to Revelation", p. 15.
  • Where else in the world can you feel closer to God. His presence is within such grandeur, within such might, within such beauty, within the Himalayas
    • Pradeep Chamariya in: "Kailash Manasarovar on the Rugged Road to Revelation", p. 15.
  • The desire to smell the pure air, to sleep under the open skies in the mountains, meditating pulls in this serenity pulls you to the Himalayas. We as Indians are very lucky that this mountain is part of our geographical boundaries and heritage. Once you are near these mountains, the electrifying sights, the clean air makes you detached from the material world.
    • Pradeep Chamariya in: "Kailash Manasarovar on the Rugged Road to Revelation", p. 15.
  • The Mt. Kailash-Lake Manasarovar region, in the west of Himalayas, is a wonderful place, especially for those fascinated by the stories and tales of gods and demons. The pilgrimage organised by the Ministry of External Affairs in association...with Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam generally begins around the middle of June every year and pilgrims make their way to the heavenly abode till late September.
    • Pradeep Chamariya in: "Kailash Manasarovar on the Rugged Road to Revelation", p. 20.
  • The geography of the Himalayas is such that all its passes lead one to the region of Kailash and Manasarovar. Western Tibet, the place of the heavenly abode of Lord Shiva, has been known to the Hindus and their ancestors since thousands of years.
    • Pradeep Chamariya in: "Kailash Manasarovar on the Rugged Road to Revelation", p. 23.
  • It further continues to tell us that Meru is in the Himalayas between Malyavant and Gandhamadana. This gold-mountain is the highest of all mountains. It is round as a ball, shines like the morning sun, and is like a fire without smoke.
    • Pradeep Chamariya in: "Kailash Manasarovar on the Rugged Road to Revelation", p. 26.
  • This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse.
  • In the course of his service Gerard carried out many arduous and important survey duties, especially in the Himalayas, where he ascended heights previously believed to be inaccessible, and penetrated into Tibet as far as the frontier pickets of Chinese would allow. To him we are indebted for our earliest notions of the geological structure and remains of the Himalayan ranges.
...Of glacial cataracts, great Ganges' stream—
All these to her were but as things that seem,
Doomed all to pass, like phantoms viewed in sleep...- Florence Earle Coates.
This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse. - Manzoor Chandio.
  • We are humanitarians, we don't know how to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people in the Himalayas. But the most efficient military alliance in the world should be able to.
  • Himalayas is a place of meditation. It reminds you of God’s home and a meditation ground for the realized soul Indian bliss of realization of soul and Himalaya are intermingled.
    • A noted writer quoted in:"Kailash Manasarovar on the Rugged Road to Revelation", p. 16.

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Mount Kailash - ...The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range.
From Kurseong a very steep zig zag leads up to the mountains [Himalayas in Bengal] through a magnificent forest of chestnut, walnut, Oaks and laurels. It is difficult to conceive a grander mass of vegetation:—the straight shafts of the timber-trees shooting aloft, some naked and clean, with grey, pale, or brown bark; others literally clothed for yards with a continuous garment of epiphytes,... - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
The trip takes about 8 hours, but the experience on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railways is worth the extra time you spend on it. This is also one of the two trains to be honoured with the UNESCO World Heritage status, given its legacy of making journeys for over a century now. - Mountain Railways of India.
  • The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen - a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range.
  • HIGH in the azure heavens, ye ancient mountains,
    Do ye uplift your old ancestral snows,
    Gathering amid the clouds those icy fountains,
    Whence many a sunny stream through India flows.

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A Himalayan trek is a metaphor for life itself. On a trek we are searching for a majestic peak or high plateau, a beautiful stream or waterfall, or a shrine or monastery. The destination or goal serves to quench our thirst, our desire. It provides a short respite from the rigors of the trail, a brief "One Night's Shelter." Then we have to descend, move on. We cannot stay there. -Yogavacara Rahula.
  • All ancient Indian belief and veneration were directed to the mid-Himalayan region, the only original sacred outside land, and it was thither that rishis and kings turned their steps in devotion, never to the northwest.
    • Ancient Indian Historical Tradition by F.E. Pargiter, Motilal Banarsidas, Delhi-Varanasi-Patna, 1962. Quoted in Talageri, S. (2000). The Rigveda: A historical analysis. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
  • Climate change is expected to exacerbate current stresses on water resources. On a regional scale, mountain snowpack, glaciers, and small ice caps play a crucial role in fresh water availability. Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century, reducing water availability, hydropower potential, and the changing seasonality of flows in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges (e.g. Hindu-Kush, Himalaya, Andes), where more than one-sixth of the world’s population currently lives. There is also high confidence that many semi-arid areas (e.g. the Mediterranean Basin, western United States, southern Africa, and northeastern Brazil) will suffer a decrease in water resources due to climate change. In Africa by 2020, between 75 and 250 million people are projected to be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change.
  • A Himalayan trek is a metaphor for life itself. On a trek we are searching for a majestic peak or high plateau, a beautiful stream or waterfall, or a shrine or monastery. . The destination or goal serves to quench our thirst, our desire. It provides a short respite from the rigors of the trail, a brief "One Night's Shelter." Then we have to descend, move on. We cannot stay there.
    • Yogavacara Rahula in: Trekking, Government of West Bengal Tourism.

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*Siwalik Hills, a name given to the foot-hills of the Himalayas in Dehra Dun district of the United Provinces of India, and in Nahan state and Hoshiarpur district of the Punjab. The range runs parallel with the Himalayan system from Hardwar on the Ganges to the banks of the Beas, ...Siwaliks.
An illustration of Yeti - You're chugging up Mount Everest in an old pack track in search of the legendary Abominable Snowman. But the track turns out to have collapsed (of course), and as the cars pick up speed —both forward and backward (and in the dark)—riders find themselves perilously close to an elephant- size and pretty scary Yeti, "protector" of the Himalayas. - Eve Zibart
  • But the real disaster for China’s Third World relationships was the 1962 border war with India. This was a conflict that had been a long time coming. Although China and India had cooperated for a while after their states were reconstituted in the late 1940s, a decade later they were locked in enmity. The causes were many. China suspected, with some justification, Nehru’s government to be sympathetic to Tibetan nationalists. India feared that Chinese control of the Himalayas would put New Delhi at a dangerous strategic disadvantage. But the most basic problem was that the Chinese Communists always viewed Nehru’s Indian state simply as a colonial construct, something less than a real country. Nehru, on his side, saw Chinese-style revolution as a threat not just to his wishes for India’s development, but to the security of all of Asia. “The Indians,” Zhou Enlai had told Khrushchev in 1959, “[have] conducted large-scale anti-Chinese propaganda for forty years.” The war broke out when Indian military mountain patrols moved into disputed areas of the Himalayas in October 1962. Chinese soldiers tried to force them out, and both sides started shooting. The Indians were on the offensive first, but the PLA managed to get large reinforcements in, which pushed the Indian army back. When the fighting ended the Indians had been thoroughly routed, and the Chinese took control of the disputed region. The war was a shock to all of Asia, and not least to the members of the recently formed Non-Aligned Movement, which had India as one of its principal members. But the main effect was to further isolate China, who, largely because of its bellicose language, was seen as the aggressive party.
    • Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A Global History (2017)

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Vol 1-9 )

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Swami Vivekananda in: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda ( Vol 1-9 ) Kartindo Classics

... the same India whose influx of spirituality is represented, as it were, on the material plane, by rolling rivers like oceans, where the eternal Himalayas, rising tier above tier with their snowcaps, look as it were into the very mysteries of heaven. - -Swami Vivekananda.
and we sincerely pray that your efforts in this direction be crowned with success. The great Shankaracharya also, after his spiritual conquest, established a Math at Badarikâshrama in the Himalayas for the protection of the ancient religion. -Swami Vivekananda.
  • Whose glory the snow-tops of the Himalayas declare, whose glory the oceans with all their waters proclaim...
    • In p. 184.
  • Through the vistas of the past the voice of the centuries is coming down to us; the voice of the sages of the Himalayas and the recluses of the forest; the voice that came to the Semitic races; the voice that spoke through Buddha and spiritual giants,...
    • In p. 287.
  • Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body.
    • In p. 511.
  • Religion, which is the highest knowledge and the highest wisdom, cannot be bought, nor can it be acquired from books. You may thrust your head into all the corners of the world, you may explore the Himalayas.
    • In p. 531.
  • ...searched almost every cave here, and lived in the Himalayas. I know people who lived there all their lives. I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's ...
    • In p. 629.
  • ... the same India whose influx of spirituality is represented, as it were, on the material plane, by rolling rivers like oceans, where the eternal Himalayas, rising tier above tier with their snowcaps, look as it were into the very mysteries of heaven.
    • In p. 658.
  • ... and we sincerely pray that your efforts in this direction be crowned with success. The great Shankaracharya also, after his spiritual conquest, established a Math at Badarikâshrama in the Himalayas for the protection of the ancient religion.
    • In p. 691.
  • To the great tablelands of the high Himalaya mountains first came the Aryans, and there to this day abides the pure type of Brahman ...
    • In p. 776.
  • In ancient India, when men became very old, they would give up everything. So did the kings. When a man did not want to live any more, then he went towards the Himalayas, without eating or drinking and walked on and on till the body failed. All the time thinking of God, be just marched on till the body gave way.
    • In p. 842.
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