Let's go up and take a look at the Himalayas.

I'll take you to the top of the Himalayas.

This is the Himalayas. Up in the north, very cold.

This is an observatory in the Himalayas, in Ladakh in India.

And then, like everyone else in our generation, we went to live in a Himalayan monastery.

So I quit my degree, I headed off to the Himalayas, I became a monk, and I started studying meditation.

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Millions have been displaced and or are shelterless, even as the cruel Himalayan winter descends over the region.

As I spent my week up in the Himalayas, I started to imagine what I call an emotional equation.

Nearly two billion people so one in three people on this earth rely on the water from the Himalayas.

Like Al Gore told you, two billion people live on the water from the glacier of Himalaya.

The government of India met in a railroad coach, while millions streamed for the imagined safety of the Himalayas.

So I would like to invite you, also, for a while, to the Himalayas themselves.

Well, mad dogs and Englishmen, eh? With Lawrence in Arabia, with Sherpa Tenzing up the Himalayas.

Anyway, last year, I heard about the Himalayas and the melting of the and the melting of the glaciers because of climate change.

It was that sort of heady question about what counts that led me to take my CEO hat off for a week and fly off to the Himalayan peaks.

There are no roads there, so they carry loads of stone on their backs, often of their own weight, up and down the Himalaya Mountains.

And so I just came, two days ago, from the Himalayas to your kind invitation.

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China and India have signed an agreement aimed at rapidly increasing trade across their shared Himalayan border.

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

The government thought that this is a very backward area and we should bring a multi million dollar project to bring water from the Himalayas.

And when I met her, she had just taken a walk over the Himalayas from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, into Nepal, across to India 30 days to meet her leader, the Dalai Lama.

So, just yesterday, I flew in here from Singapore, and before that, I was spending two weeks in Bhutan, the small Himalayan kingdom nestled between Tibet and India.

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Of course there are some areas where water is reaching, I'm not saying that it is not reaching at all.

More than that, the struggle now underway at the top of the world may well determine whether this will be an Asian Century or a Chinese Century.

This effort is aimed at questioning the conventional wisdom that recurrent floods are a consequence of erosion and deforestation in the Himalayas.

And I firmly believe that what we're seeing in the Himalayas is the next great, big battleground on this earth.

And in fact, these same cells that are affecting Kimbo here are also found affecting dogs in New York City, in mountain villages in the Himalayas and in Outback Australia.

19. In April, UNU and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development of Nepal co sponsored a workshop on the Dynamics of Land use Land cover Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

And as you come from the north, it is all masonry growing out of the sand cliffs as you come from the Himalayas and evoking the tradition of the fortress.

In the context of the Mountain Partnership, other mountain regions such as the Andes, the Balkans and the Hindu Kush Himalaya have expressed considerable interest in having more information on existing regional cooperation, in order to enhance dialogue and engage in a process of mutual exchange of experiences between mountain regions.

This is what I see from the balcony of my hermitage in the Himalayas.

Every year or so, I have the privilege of taking clinicians into the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.

At 2145 hours Israeli forces fired seven illumination flares over Balat from their position on Ahmadiyah hill.

You know, there's a small country nestled in the Himalayan Mountains, far from these beautiful mountains, where the people of the Kingdom of Bhutan have decided to do something different, which is to measure their gross national happiness rather than their gross national product.

Experts attending the event warned that little was being done to monitor the state of glaciers in the Himalayas, which were melting due to global warming and thereby increasing the risk of major floods.

Now, when we do studies we have, with other colleagues around the world, done over 8,000 interviews of people from Dominican monks, to blind nuns, to Himalayan climbers, to Navajo shepherds who enjoy their work.

The Himalayas. The flat horizon that we've evolved with has been a metaphor for the infinite unbounded resources and unlimited capacity for disposal of waste.

And to show the place where meditators, like me, who began with being a molecular biologist in Pasteur Institute, and found their way to the mountains.

In August 2004, the Asia Pacific node of the Mountain Forum launched a community radio project to explore the potential for connecting Himalayan mountain villages to the global community, through collaboration with the oldest broadcasting station in South Asia, Radio Sagarmantha.