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.
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.
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.
The most notable area of concern is the central Himalayan Gap, a 600km-long central arc of the Himalayas.
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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.
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.
One that security planners highlighted in 2009 revolves around concern that global warming will melt the massive Himalayan ice mass.
Remittances from the Gulf play a huge role in the Himalayan nation, where about 30% of the people are unemployed.
These cores show that the level of pollution, especially soot, in Himalayan glaciers correlates with emissions in Europe and South Asia.
It is true that a first casualty of the melting of Himalayan glaciers would be the waters of the north-Indian plain.
Of course, I should have expected nothing less from a Himalayan Kingdom that has set aside 60% of its land as protected nature reserves.
The creator of the app, Joe Shrimpton, is a trekking aficionado, with 19 years of trekking the Himalayan region under his belt.
The trekking season has just begun in Nepal and thousands of climbers, including many Westerners, head to the country's famous Himalayan peaks.
Weddings are being held inside sets made of canvas tents painted to look like the Himalayan battlefield, with sack-stuffed "troops" standing guard.
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