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Our world is a pretty special place, full of breathtaking sights, awesome people, vibrant plants, and majestic wildlife. However, we tend to take it for granted, forgetting how incredible it is.
Euophrys omnisuperstes, the Himalayan jumping spider, is a small jumping spider that lives at elevations of up to 6,700 m (22,000 ft) in the Himalayas, including Mount Everest, making it a candidate for the highest known permanent resident on Earth.
Malavath Poorna [a] (born 10 June 2000) is an Indian mountaineer. On 25 May 2014, Poorna climbed Mount Everest , aged 13 years and 11 months, the youngest female to have reached the summit. [ 1 ] Purna climbed Mount Elbrus , the highest peak in Europe on 27 July 2017.
Kedarnath Wild Life Sanctuary, also called the Kedarnath Musk Deer Sanctuary, is a wildlife sanctuary declared under Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and located in Uttarakhand, India. Its alternate name comes from its primary purpose of protecting the endangered Himalayan musk deer . [ 1 ]
On 2 December 2010, OPB televised one of Martin Yan's Hidden China episodes, "Life in Shangri-La", in which Yan said that "Shangri-La" is the actual name of a real town in the hilly and mountainous region in southwestern Yunnan Province, frequented by both Han and Tibetan locals. Martin Yan visited arts and craft shops and local farmers as they ...
In addition to Buddha and the great Buddhist divinities, the Sherpa also believe in numerous deities and demons who inhabit every mountain, cave, and forest. These have to be respected or appeased through ancient practices woven into the fabric of Buddhist ritual life. Many of the great Himalayan mountains are considered sacred.
Mumtaz Ali Khan was born on 6 November 1949 to an affluent Muslim family in Trivandrum, Travancore–Cochin (now in Kerala). [4] [5] In his autobiography, Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master, Sri M describes meeting his guru Sri Maheshwarnath Babaji in the backyard of his home in Trivandrum: a distinguished, youthful-looking stranger with matted hair, standing near a jackfruit tree.
Himalaya: Mountains of Life is a coffee table book [3] authored by Sandesh Kadur and Kamaljit S. Bawa. The book contains information about the biodiversity of the Eastern Himalayas [ 4 ] and is divided into four main chapters, The Land, The People, The Animals, The Plants.