The Himalaya Range is the world's highest mountain range, with the fourteen highest mountain peaks in the world; it spans over 2,400 kilometers. It is also one of the world's longest ranges. It runs from the Pamir Mountains in the west to...

(‘the abode of the snow’) in popular mythology regarded as the abode of the gods, it denotes not only the actual mountain range, but also the invisible higher and subtle spiritual realms whose centre is the mythical Mount...

(HIMALAYA: L'ENFANCE D'UN CHEF) (DRAMA -- FRENCH-SWISS) A Jacques Perrin presentation of a Galatee Films, France 2 Cinema, Les Prods. de la Gueville, Bac Films, Antelope (France)/Les Prods. JMH (Switzerland) production, with participation of Canal Plus, CNC and Teleclub. (International sales:...

SIKKIM HIMALAYA by David Lang Pomegranate Press, £29.95, pp.200 ISBN 0953349373 Friends in high places David Lang first heard about the Himalayas when he was a little boy. As his father read aloud from the works of the great botanical explorers -...

The soldier, barely 20 years old, was killed in a plane crash high in the northern Himalayas nearly 40 years ago. His snow-preserved body was finally brought home Tuesday, draped in the Indian flag and covered with fresh marigolds.Nearly 400 people attended the cremation ceremony...

Mountaineering legend Sir Edmund Hillary, best known for conquering Mount Everest, is in a New Zealand hospital after a fall, media reported Tuesday.Hillary, 87, who along with sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first men to climb the world's tallest peak in 1953, is believed to...

The history of the Himalayan region and the modern perceptions of the region.