#HIMALAYAS

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Seoul The Soloist: 'Himalayan Ambient' (2023)

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📍Mount Kailash, Himalayas

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Gigantic Jets over Himalayas l NASA APOD

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Feast your eyes on the dazzling colors of the Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus). Males of this species use their iridescent feathers to attract mates. Found in the Himalayas, this bird inhabits high altitudes. In fact, it can be found at elevations of up to 16,000 ft (4,877 m) during the summer! Its distinctive hooked beak aids it in foraging for snacks like insects, seeds, and berries.

Photo: Hari K Patibanda, CC BY-NC 2.0, iNaturalist

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Himalayas | ( by Chris )

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The Potala Palace: Lhasa, Tibet

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A snow leopard and her one year old cub in their den. BBC Earth

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The Himalayas as seen from the Space." -Credits: NASA-

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The balcony of my room is nothing less than a paradise.

घर, दार्जिलिंग।

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" Pallas Cat " //© Sondre Eriksen

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Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947)—Charaka Ayurveda [tempera on canvas, 1932]

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Both places are only 400km apart yet temperature difference is 40C due to Himalayas

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09–12–23

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A glimpse of the majestic Ama Dablam in Nepal, as it stands elegantly under the serene blue sky. Its snowy peaks catch the golden light, reminding us of nature's quiet grandeur.

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Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Sunita Kumari Chaudhary quietly weaves together lengths of rope, binding them with grass collected from the riverbank in her village of Dang. She skillfully shapes the materials into a jewelry box. As she weaves, she's instructing a small group of women how to work with the materials.

The ropes that Chaudhary and the others are using were once the lifeline for mountain climbers tackling Nepal's mountains and were then tossed. Government initiatives to clean up discarded materials on the mountains have ramped up since 2019. The waste, including the ropes, is now finding new life, transformed by skilled hands like Chaudhary's into items to sell such as boxes and table mats.

"At first, I wasn't aware that these ropes were collected from the mountains," Chaudhary says as she expertly bends and coils a blue-colored rope into an oval-shaped box. To her left, a container holds her tools – scissors and metal nails. Scattered on the floor are several mats she'd made, each a vibrant mix of golden yellow, purple and blue.

"Later, I learned that [the ropes were] collected during a mountain cleaning campaign. And people like me, who are far from the mountains but belong to the indigenous Tharu community, are using our traditional skills to transform this waste into something entirely new."

The Himalayan mountains are increasingly laden with mounting waste left by mountaineering activities over the years. There is no official data, but Nepal's Department of Tourism estimates that on Mt. Everest alone, there is nearly 140,000 tons of waste.

In 2019, the government launched an initiative led by the Nepal Army to clean up the mountains. Waste collected from the "Safa Himal Aviyan" (Clean Mountain Campaign) is either securely dumped if it's biodegradable or reused/recycled if it's not biodegradable.

Now some of that material is finding its way to Indigenous craftswomen like Chaudhary, thanks to an initiative led by Shilshila Acharya.

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Baseball being played in Bhutan, Himalayas