himalaya mountains

Describes the physical geography of the Himalayas and chronicles its exploration throughout the centuries, covering the arrival of Christianity, trade, and surveyors and the conquest of Mt. Everest by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.

On the northwestern frontier of India, Conway was a passenger on a plane taken over by a native pilot and never heard of again. What Conway found in Shangri-La makes the story.

In a Sherpa village in the foothills of Nepal's Himalayas, seven-year-old Yang Ki wants to haul wood like her brother Pemba, so she'll grow strong enough to be a porter. She wants to learn her brother tells her that girls cannot be guides. Yang Ki, however, is very determined.

A century after a yeti captures Lady Agatha Farlingham and takes her to a hidden valley to raise his motherless children, tourism threatens their peaceful existence and young Con and Ellen take these educated and civilized yetis across Europe to Lady Agatha's home in England.

Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

Tsering, determined to live up to the example of his deceased father, defies his stepfather and attempts to navigate the dangerous mountain pass on which his father lost his life.

Young Tsering waits impatiently for the salt caravan to return to his remote village in the Himalayas, but when the caravan returns, Tsering learns his father has been killed and his life will be forever changed.

Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.