He has made 19 Himalayan expeditions, including four to Mount Everest, and made first ascents of peaks in Greenland, Patagonia and Tibet. |
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A group of Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in a remote Himalayan community. |
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The approach of the Himalayan winter is making a desperate situation even more urgent. |
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Glaciers had carved it out of living rock, and the hermit was a mere insect, trying to blend in with the colors of Himalayan permanence. |
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But his latest trip had been the experience of a lifetime, he said, with highs and lows to match any Himalayan mountain ascent. |
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The march went up high hills and down low valleys, and crossed the great Himalayan rivers. |
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Himalayan balsam's pink flowers are an attractive sight on the river's edge but it is a menace that needs to be stopped in its tracks. |
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Along the way you may even sight the Himalayan red panda, musk deer, leopards, black bear, goral and tahr in the national park. |
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Himalayan Enfielders, now nearly a year old with about 70 members, is a forum for people who have a passion for biking in Kathmandu. |
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Blue water sailing is as different from coastal sailing as a Himalayan expedition is from backpacking in the Rockies. |
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Other imports include the poisonous corncockle from the Mediterranean, the Himalayan balsam and the New Zealand willowherb, an aggressive weed. |
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We have seal point and lynx point kittens Himalayan they are beautiful, loving and are as sweet as can be! |
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The Himalayan mastiff is a much bigger dog, a loveable-looking animal on the lines of the Great Pyrenees. |
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The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees. |
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Arjun Chhatkuli, CEO of Himalayan Humanity, started out as a porter bearing the luggage of tourists during long treks. |
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Unlike Americans or Europeans, Himalayan Sherpas consider high-altitude climbing to be decidedly unglamorous, dangerous, dirty work. |
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Underneath are Himalayan poppies Meconopsis, primulas and trilliums, many of them also collected from the wild. |
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Married to painter Andreas Krajanek, she started collecting the bark of the Himalayan birch tree and painting on them. |
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There could be no better hunting ground than the majestic and serene Himalayan ranges for these shutterbugs. |
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For example, snow partridge and Himalayan monal pheasant are facing local extinction from many valleys. |
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This fan is made from the feathers of the Himalayan monal, a pheasant found in India, Pakistan, and Nepal. |
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Birds common to the mountains include rosefinches, Guldenstadt's redstarts, Himalayan monals, raptors, and vultures. |
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The king of the small Himalayan kingdom is now spearheading a move to form a constitution that would end the monarchial rule. |
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Sherpas first became prominent to Westerners as British mountaineers set their sights on conquering Himalayan peaks. |
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Both these book are essential reading for those interested in Sherpa society and in Himalayan mountaineering. |
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He is a former Belgian sky surfing champion and a member of a Himalayan expedition that climbed Annapurna without oxygen. |
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If, however, not a soul has come across your plum paste, your Himalayan red rice or your Chilean boletes, you win. |
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General strikes and sloganeering have become common in this Himalayan kingdom. |
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Himalayan snowcocks got so used to us that they kept grazing as we were walking around. |
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A lime tree there is already turning a beautiful bright yellow, and a large Himalayan spindle bush is taking on rich red and pink colouring. |
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Mature Himalayan birch trees and Virginia creeper soften the austerity of the brick walls. |
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Wool sucking, in particular, is prevalent in the oriental breeds, such as the Siamese, Burmese, and Himalayan. |
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Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock. |
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The Himalayan cave houses an icy stalagmite worshipped as an incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva. |
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The legendary champak, a member of the magnolia family, is a native of the temperate Himalayan region. |
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He is no longer the hermit of Andretta, the village in the Himalayan foothills to which he has often retreated, to reflect, write and paint. |
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Nestling in the Himalayan foothills is a magic garden in which the cast-offs of modern living take on an enchanted new life. |
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Alpine and Himalayan influences are translated into discrete embroidery and sophisticated patchwork. |
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And there could be no better hunting ground than the majestic, and serene Himalayan ranges for these shutterbugs. |
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This is the most easterly of the 26,000 ft-plus Himalayan range, and until 1852 was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world. |
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Technical accuracy and Himalayan filming aren't the only reasons the film has been in the slow cooker. |
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Hardie, a civil engineer by profession, has 11 Himalayan visits and has also been to Antarctica. |
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He has been in prison in Simla, in the Himalayan foothills, for the past year. |
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Her Radio 4 has tended to be rolling foothills rather than Himalayan peaks. |
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Dr.Gupta provided the first geophysical evidence for an enormously thick crust below the Tibet plateau and Himalayan region. |
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As you travel to the Himalayan foothills and ascend further, every corner has a surprise. |
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Vantage points around Nainital offer a panoramic view of Himalayan peaks on one side and the plains rolling down on the other. |
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Collecting all his experiences gained from those heady Himalayan treks, Dhami offers intense sessions. |
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I wasn't surprised to hear that Bro, my amicable 11-year-old Himalayan, took it all in stride. |
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The BBC documentary stated, almost with glee, that tobacco, advertising and advertising hoardings are banned in the Himalayan kingdom. |
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Native Himalayan cliff bees must now compete with European honeybees for nectar. |
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So it's not a virus that every Himalayan palm civet has always had and is chronically infected with. |
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The Himalayan region has long held a particular fascination for the western mind. |
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Himalayan balsam crowds out native plants such as comfrey and willow herb, which are both important food sources for insects. |
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This Himalayan region abounds in faunal beauty and there are hosts of parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the whole of Sikkim. |
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Shiva was depicted as a Himalayan ascetic, Vishnu as a blue youth holding in his four hands a discus, mace, conch, and lotus. |
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Mount Everest and the Himalayan mountain chain did not exist at the time of Noah's Flood. |
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Around the ponds and burn there are paths and various plants, such as Himalayan poppies and rhododendrons. |
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Primula florindae, the Himalayan cowslip, was the next in the sequence to flower, starting in late June and finishing at the end of July. |
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Buddhist monks chanted hypnotically in the deep blue twilight, multicolored prayer flags blowing in the stiff Himalayan winds. |
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The past few weeks in this tiny Himalayan kingdom have been marked by dozens of pro-democracy rallies. |
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He was usually the team member to suffer least from gippy tummy when on Himalayan expeditions. |
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For the Himalayan expedition, trekkers would have to spend a day for acclimatisation and orientation. |
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When mist fills the Himalayan valleys and heavy monsoon rain sweeps across the hills, it is natural for the wild creatures to seek shelter. |
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As a result, India plans to airdrop food items in the capital under a contingency plan, the English-language Himalayan Times reported Sunday. |
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The red panda lives in the bamboo forests of the Himalayan and Heng-Duan Mountains. |
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The eastern Himalayan region is a high-rainfall zone that yields excessive water in basins during the monsoon. |
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Of the five small kingdoms or princely states which the author explores in this fascinating Himalayan odyssey, only Nepal and Bhutan are fully independent nations. |
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Goraks are large Himalayan birds that look remarkably like ravens. |
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The bad weather also blocked roads and grounded helicopters as troops raced against the approaching Himalayan winter to ferry aid to remote areas. |
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There was something strangely soothing about having my Aveda Himalayan treatment in a small cave with walls as porous as pumice and pitted as a peach stone. |
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The multi-coloured Himalayan monal is an attractive pheasant hunted for its attractive feathers and crest, and is almost on the verge of extinction. |
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The most terrifying thing I encounter during my visit is a fat, white Himalayan stray cat with red eyes and a scrunched up face. |
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He's fast becoming the best Himalayan alpinist of this or any generation. |
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Situated at the edge of Loch Dunvegan, the garden is extensive with a parterre, and woodland areas planted with Himalayan blue poppies and the Himalayan lily Cardiocrinum. |
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For the conservation of Himalayan monal and its associated species, it would be important to set aside large undisturbed areas of high altitude oak-rhododendron forests. |
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Sherpas, the Himalayan locals living in the borders of Tibet and Nepal, challenge the mountain routinely when assisting climbers and also deeply subscribe to this belief. |
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Extension associated with lengthening of the Himalayan collision orogen is accommodated by small graben and rifts almost at right angles to the strike of the collision zone. |
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A generation ago, mounting an expedition meant drafting a herd of porters, slogging loads of gear to a rocky base camp, and laying siege to a Himalayan peak. |
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I have 2 Himalayan cats and 2 long haired dogs and vacuum the floors each day just to keep up with the dust etc. that seems to show more now than ever. |
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The Himalayan tahr was successfully introduced to the South Island of New Zealand during 1904-1919 and now has a breeding range of approximately 5000 km. |
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Mr Stillman was arrested two years ago in the Himalayan foothills. |
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Animal rights activists have reacted with anger after authorities began a cull of more than 100 rare Himalayan tahrs on Table Mountain, Cape Town's most famous landmark. |
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This particular Tamang community, which represents 300,000 of the nearly one million Tamang people, lives in a precipitous river valley located in the Himalayan Mountains. |
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In this paper we present new quantitative data on strain, deformation temperatures and vorticity of flow at the top of the Greater Himalayan Slab. |
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Subsequently, they were asked to write a breed standard for the Himalayan, a name the colorpoint longhair had acquired somewhere in transition between England and Canada. |
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King Birendra's call for demilitarisation and the creation of a Himalayan peace zone was heard often enough but it went unheeded by the rest of the world. |
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The river continues its drop through the Himalayan foothills. |
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Solving the border dispute may be difficult, despite progress in recent years at demarcating the boundary, which straddles the Himalayan mountain range. |
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For example, Himalayan snowcocks, a bird that feeds on grasses, forbs, and sedges, are more vulnerable to raptorial predators in areas where they can forage most efficiently. |
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He speaks and reads Chinese and Tibetan and knows more about the fantastical, complex history of the various forms of Himalayan Buddhism than anyone I've ever met. |
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The trees bearing rudraksha fruits are found in the Himalayan region, Nepal, and also in Indonesia and belong to the Eleo Carpus Ganitras type of plants. |
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The hills were alive with the sound of music and literature this week in the mountain-rimmed Himalayan capital of Thimphu, Bhutan. |
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But in 1958 he got the chance to attend the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, run at the time by Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who summited Everest with Hillary. |
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It was a high, clear Himalayan morning, and we were corkscrewing our way up from the banks of the river, up the steep sides of a narrow, thickly wooded valley. |
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Tibetan is most closely related to Burmese and to other spoken dialects of Himalayan peoples, but the written script was adapted from Indian writing. |
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From there, you can hike an easy 2.3 miles past patches of yellow trout lilies, fiddlehead ferns and pink Himalayan jewel-weed to the five-stage Fuller Falls. |
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The Himalayan Range is the major cause of the summer monsoon rains. |
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His curiosity took him to his spiritual guru, a Himalayan master. |
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From the Department of ENT, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, Uttaranchal, India. |
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Blue Tibetan poppies, giant Himalayan lilies and Chatham Island forget-me-nots flourish among azaleas, rhododendrons and magnolias. |
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Pakistan's tourist attractions range from the mangroves in the south, to the Himalayan hill stations. |
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The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan introduced a policy of Gross National Happiness more than twenty years ago. |
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Kenton and Sherpa Dorje Gylgen were midway through their world-first six-day summiting of Himalayan giants Nuptse, Everest and Lhotse. |
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A Himalayan native, it often has flowers measuring 20cm across with around 15 tepals, ranging in colour from white, pink through to crimson. |
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The sauce range includes spicy Bombay ketchup, Himalayan hot garlic, Madrasi hot mint, spicy monsoon mango and spicy samosa sauce. |
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He made sure his pipe was easy to refill and he sourced pure Himalayan halite salt crystal. |
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I've installed 16 Himalayan rock salts on the main dance floor which as natural ionisers take out the negative energy. |
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The drug Sattely chose to focus on is produced by a leafy Himalayan plant called the mayapple. |
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Shaivism has been more commonly practiced in the Himalayan north from Kashmir to Nepal, and in south India. |
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In the Himalayan region of India, oak forests are being invaded by pine forests due to the increase in temperature. |
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The mountainous north is colder and receives snowfall at higher altitudes of Himalayan ranges. |
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Buddhism, by the last centuries of the 1st millennium BCE, was prominent in the Himalayan region, Gandhara, Hindu Kush region and Bactria. |
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Chhaang is consumed by the people of Sikkim and the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region of West Bengal. |
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Alpine meadows are the typical habitat in the Himalayan and Tibetan populations of brown bear. |
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Airy a hundred years later, during study of Himalayan gravitation, and seismic studies detected corresponding density variations. |
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The Himalayan birch, Betula utilis, especially the variety or subspecies jacquemontii, is among the most widely planted for this purpose. |
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Fossil flora from the Himalayan foothills of Darjeeling District, West Bengal and its palaeoecological and phytogeographical significance. |
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Wonders include Himalayan crabapple, flowering dogwood from China's Sichuan province, and an impressive collection of magnolias, maples, and roses. |
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The food habits vary with region, with Bengali Hindus and Hindus living in Himalayan regions, or river delta regions, regularly eating meat and fish. |
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He was among the best-known pteridologists in China and was also an expert on Himalayan floristics and alpine plants, as well as a noted plant explorer. |
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Seven animals are being recommended for removal from the schedule, including the Mongolian gerbil and the Himalayan porcupine, because they are no longer present in the wild. |
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Dr Singh also talked about the Centre's plan to establish a National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology in Dehra Dun hoping to get international cooperation in this vital area. |
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Extend a classic Himalayan trek with a safari in Chitwan National Park and view exotic wildlife such as rhinos, Bengal tigers, sloth bears and leopards. |
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As a Crosby resident for 30 years, Davies was already well placed to monitor the western horizon with its Turner-like sunsets and Himalayan cloudscapes. |
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Those who attempt the summit are experienced climbers who will tackle other Himalayan peaks as well, said Dawa Steven Sherpa, two-time summiteer of Everest from Kathmandu. |
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She's had to snog jailbirds, reveal a cleavage of Himalayan proportions in the tartiest clothes imaginable and get beaten up naked in the showers. |
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Himalayan and American black bears were sedated and sent up in the bomber. |
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