In other words, who else might you meet in a hidden, ultra exotic, miles-high Himalayan kingdom?
Yet since the last big Himalayan quake, in 1950, India's population has trebled and urbanised.
The small Himalayan kingdom rates fourth happiest in the world on the Huffpo list.
It is premature to see the Bhutanese as Himalayan versions of the oil-rich Gulf Arabs.
The tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan has implemented a policy of Gross National Happiness.
Breaking from the political heat, Binod set out on a ten-day Himalayan trek in May.
To the left of the green are two bunkers that appear of Himalayan proportions.
Only one murder has been committed this year in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
The two countries dispute several Himalayan border areas and fought a brief war in 1962.
The Himalayan region is divided between the two countries, but each claims it in its entirety.
Soil erosion is particularly bad in the Himalayan foothills where most north Indian rivers rise.
Keyed up by that, Mr Harrer longed to be picked for a Himalayan expedition.
Jaish-e-Mohammad is a banned Islamist group that fights against Indian rule in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Himalayan glaciers are relatively poorly studied and there are suggestions that some are actually putting on mass.
The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is on the list because of its unique, carefully preserved culture.
Salinger or the most distant Himalayan goatherd can be roped into somebody's network has reached the Internet.
Further north, in the trans-Himalayan region, locals continue to complain about snow leopards preying on their livestock.
This bloom is so rare, in fact, that it was once thought to be a Himalayan myth, like the Yeti.
Qinghai province in northwestern China, home to about five million people, is considered a gateway to Himalayan Tibet.
The most notable area of concern is the central Himalayan Gap, a 600km-long central arc of the Himalayas.
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The country in no way resembles its seductive image as a hashish-tinged Shangri-La of pagodas and Himalayan treks.
The "Tibet Code" will transport audiences far away from these agonies to an exotic Himalayan Shangri-La created as fantasy.
For example, the IPCC had predicted that the entire 500, 000 square km Himalayan glacier range would disappear by 2035.
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The Himalayan glaciers, it turned out, weren't going to melt in 30 years.
In theory, that would cause the rivers fed by Himalayan glaciers to flood.
In 1950, a French expedition reached the top of the Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal for the first time.
India claimed Pakistani forces killed two of its soldiers and mutilated the bodies in the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Furthermore, in the past half-century the Himalayan region has seen fewer powerful earthquakes than might be predicted from historical records.
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It is all the harder in the Himalayan region, with hidden underground faults that are poorly monitored by seismic instruments.
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Starting in the 1960s, the Soviet bureaucracy irrigated cotton fields in Uzbekistan by diverting Himalayan rivers that used to feed the Aral Sea.
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