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...September 1973 George Schaller and Peter Matthiessen began a 500 mile trek from the Himalayan town of Pokhara to the unspoiled Crystal Mountains and back. Schaller, an ethologist, went to research mating behavior among a wild herd of bharal, the blue sheep of the Himalayas. He wanted to confirm his speculations that the bharal are a living, missing link between the true goats and the true sheep. He also wanted to see the snow leopard, the most elusive, and one of the rarest, cats in the world, which preys on the bharal. He accomplished both...
ANNAPURNA is not your run-of-the-mill New England foothill. It isn't even your average Himalayan peak. Annapurna is the tenth highest mountain in the world and is considered one of the toughest to scale, even harder than Mount Everest, the world's tallest...
Such experience does not come cheaply. The Jerusalem program costs $1,800 plus airfare; Brown's Himalayan adventure, $3,000; and Union College's medical tour...
Khan lives a reclusive life with his family and the few students who study with him, on his estate in northern India at the foot of the Himalayan Mountains. One of his favorite topics is his home-grown produce and simple rural lifestyle...
Built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, the camp was originally called Hi-Catoctin. Franklin D. Roosevelt renamed it Shangri-La (after the Himalayan paradise in James Hilton's bestseller of that era) when he chose it for his summer retreat. As F.D.R.'s son Elliott Roosevelt recalled, the camp at that time "looked more like a Marine training camp made up of rough pine cabins, but it suited Father down to the ground?metal bed, bathroom door that refused to shut tight, bare walls ornamented only with some of his favorite cartoons...