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Global warming is shrinking glaciers on the Tibet side of Mount Everest"[url=http://www.geocities.com/goarana668/everest...
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Himalayas Cold front
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The cold wave has intensified across north India following snowfall and scattered rainfall in the upper reaches of Himalayas.
Temperatures have plummeted several degrees below normal in many northern states. The Kashmir Valley, which witnessed snowfall ranging between three and eight feet...
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The Imja Glacial Lake is the second largest glacial lake in Nepal Himalayas after Tsho Rolpa and is listed high among potentially dangerous glacial lakes. It lies at an altitude of 5000 metres above sea level and is fed by the debris-covered glaciers of Imja, Lhotse Shar and Amphu Lapcha. This lake is...
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For centuries Tibet has been the embodiment of an exotic fantasy. A Buddhist Shangri-La, mysterious and remote, locked away within high mountains from the frenetic modernity of the outside world. But as the first train ever pulled up to Lhasa station on July 1 having hurtled across frozen tundra fo...
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Chinese archaeologists claim that findings unearthed in the areas along the Qinghai-Tibet railway proved that human beings lived there at least 30,000 years ago.
Archaeologists with the Qinghai Provincial Archaeological Institute said they collected large number of chipped stone tools in...
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Siachen glacier
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The Indian government's decision to allow a civilian expedition to the Siachen glacier, an expedition NDTV will be part of, hasn't gone down well with Pakistan. Pakistan says this is a disputed territory and India has no business allowing such expeditions. There is history behind this antipathy t...
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Cho Oyu
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Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 metres above sea level. Cho Oyu lies in the Himalayas and is 20 km west of Mount Everest, at the border between the Tibet Autonomous Region and Nepal. Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan. The mountain was first climbed on Oc...
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1999 Chamoli earthquake
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The 1999 Chamoli earthquake occurred on 29 March 1999 in the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand). The earthquake was the strongest to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than ninety years Read more
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Himalayas quake
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Experts warn of more great quakes in the Himalayas In a new study, a team of researchers has discovered that massive earthquakes in the range of 8 to 8.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale have left clear ground scars in the central Himalayas. This ground-breaking discovery by scientists from Nanyang T...
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