• the noble rhubarb (pictured) of the frigid, sunburnt Himalaya creates its own protective greenhouse with ultraviolet-blocking panels?
• Tsomoriri (pictured), with an altitude of 4,595 metres (15,075 ft) in Ladakh, is the largest of the High Altitude Lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region entirely within India?
• Maharana Pratap Sagar or Pong Dam Lake, created by the highest earthfill dam in India on the Beas River (pictured), intercepts migratory birds on their trans-Himalayan fly path during each migration season?
• NKVD official Yakov Blumkin organised and personally took part in an expedition to find the Shambhala, a mystical kingdom hidden in the Himalayas?

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• Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi‎ became the first Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range in 717?