Himalaia

Imagines ex satellite

Himalaia (Hindi: हिमालय, ex verbo Sanscrito hima, quod Latine "nivem" sonat et alaya, "locum" aut "sedem") appellatur montium series altissimorum in orbe terrarum, qui inter Indiam et Sinas posita est.

In Himalaia plures numerantur montes qui plus quam octo milia metrorum alti sunt. In nulla alia orbis terrarum regione montes talis altitudinis inveniri possunt. Altissimus omnium montium Himalaiae mons Everestis appellatur.

Bibliographia

• Aitken, Bill, Footloose in the Himalaya, Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003. ISBN 81-7824-052-1
• Berreman, Gerald Duane, Hindus of the Himalayas: Ethnography and Change, 2nd rev. ed., Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Bisht, Ramesh Chandra, Encyclopedia of the Himalayas, New Delhi, Mittal Publications, c2008.
• Everest, the IMAX movie (1998). ISBN 0-7888-1493-1
• Fisher, James F.. 1990. Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal, 1990. Berkeley, University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06941-2
• Gansser, Augusto, Gruschke, Andreas, Olschak, Blanche C., Himalayas. Growing Mountains, Living Myths, Migrating Peoples, Novi Eboraci, Oxoniae: Facts On File, 1987. ISBN 0-8160-1994-0 et Novi Dellii: Bookwise, 1987.
• Gupta, Raj Kumar, Bibliography of the Himalayas, Gurgaon, Indian Documentation Service, 1981
• Hunt, John, Ascent of Everest, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1956. ISBN 0-89886-361-9.
• Isserman, Maurice and Weaver, Stewart, Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes. Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-11501-7.
• Ives, Jack D. and Messerli, Bruno, The Himalayan Dilemma: Reconciling Development and Conservation. London / New York, Routledge, 1989. ISBN 0-415-01157-4.
• Lall, J. S., cum A. D. Moddie, eds. 1981. The Himalaya, Aspects of Change. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1981. ISBN 0-19-561254-X.
• Nandy, S. N., Dhyani, P. P. and Samal, P. K., Resource Information Database of the Indian Himalaya, Almora, GBPIHED, 2006.
• Palin, Michael, Himalaya, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated, 2004. ISBN 0-297-84371-0.
• Swami Sundaranand, Himalaya: Through the Lens of a Sadhu. Published by Tapovan Kuti Prakashan (August 2001). ISBN 81-901326-0-1.
• Swami Tapovan Maharaj, Wanderings in the Himalayas, English Edition, Madras, Chinmaya Publication Trust, 1960. Translated by T. N. Kesava Pillai.
• Tilman, H. W., Mount Everest, 1938, Cambridge University Press, 1948.
• The Mighty Himalaya: A Fragile Heritage. 1988. National Geographic 174:624-631.