exploring even Beyond Viking and he um took some students on a couple of Himalayan climbs after Viking and on one of those climbs in 1980 he was killed umin an accident in a climbing accident and um his body was never found NASA
American Himalayan Foundation could not make it today, but Therese will be talking about both organizations and their great work. So today is International Women's Day, which started back in the early 1900s to promote civil rights for women.
Another potential conflict area is the glaciers of the Himalaya, no they're probably not gonna all melt by 2035 as we heard from the IPCC, but they are nevertheless melting and the entire Himalayan plateau feeds rivers that provide water in the dry season to 40% of humanity. Mostly those rivers flow through several different nations, several of which
And these are pristine areas. These are untouched Himalayan regions, where there is no road, there is no electricity, there is hardly anything there except a few villages here and there scattered. So when a project comes up there, how do you get-- what you need is people.
What are some other huge, complicated challenges that we can take on and solve together? and the Himalayan tracks and visiting some of the cultural temples.
What is the problem with the greed on Wall Street that's actually creating such a destabilization in our own economy? I lived in the Himalayan jungles with one yogi, and he taught me that the leopards and the snakes and the
had averaged 0.7% for the previous decade. Although the Himalayan database crunches these numbers for Everest, no accurate statistics exist for K2. Climbers of the savage mountain can't reliably approximate their chances of survival and don't want to.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. We started to Berkeley Himalayan Fair.
paintings of mountains with words above them, kind of superimposed upon them, and he told me that the mountains came from a magazine that had a story on the Himalayas. So, it's one of the Himalayan Mountains, and then he has language on top of it. He's really dealing with a lot of the same issues that he has throughout his career -- a lot on language, word play. He's painting a lot; he's still making books. He's actually done a series of books documenting other Los Angeles streets. I told you about Every Building on the Sunset
Let’s head back to Mount Everest to talk about how this bad boy was made. It’s located in the Himalayan mountain range, where two plates collide at a convergent boundary. Compression— the type of stress that squeezes rock together— is the main force behind orogeny, or mountain-building.
Because I don't have an extension cord, I have to switch this plug. But it has this-- it's black Himalayan salt, and it has a sulfur quality.
So what is giving up and what is just deciding to do something else? It went from rock climbing to high Himalayan climbing to these really extensive expeditions.
I think at that point, you need hope, more than you need shelter, more than you need food, more than you need a blanket. And how do people in the Himalayan River Valley-- how do they view their meals and the food they eat?
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. Has anybody here been to the Himalayan Fair?
leadership with Matt Kolinsky on the other end. So we were caught on this worst Himalayan storm ever seen with crazy winds and sheets of ice everywhere. One of the members of the group, Lynn Dan, told me that evening, as she was sitting in this tent about to blown away that this was the first ever night out in a tent --
Well, I get asked that question a lot. I think I'm going to go with the Himalayan sun bear, which has never been brought up on "The Office"
Himalayas, Himalayan Mountains. And we have many caves, I went in cave, and sit there pretending meditate, and although I have no idea about meditation. And just sit there,
climbing trip in U in uh I believe it's um Pennsylvania or Upstate New York somewhere around there and in his 20s he' done some Himalayan climbing um he really had the heart and soul of an Explorer and he made it possible for students to participate in the Viking Mission as undergraduate interns he
At about 2,500 km long, the Main Himalayan Thrust is the biggest of its kind, and it’s caused some serious damage in the past.
And so we were driving around in one very precipitous part up on this Himalayan ridge, and I said to him, so Tashi,
But also the downside is the sort of deeper strains of those Himalayan cultures are being negatively affected by technology.
- He had a moon on his head? - Yeah, and he even looks like the Himalayan mountains. The moon is white like the snow-capped peaks.
He's a poet. He was a former Himalayan mountaineer.
She was the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest and completed the great Himalayan Traverse across Bhutan, Nepal, and India.
But I actually stopped being a scientist in 1980 to walk across the whole Himalayan mountain range.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. I said I'd always dreamed of walking the whole length of the Himalayan Mountain range.
We've come a really long way in most respects, but human rights for women and girls in some corners of the world have not. I'm excited to introduce you to the work of Community Partners International and American Himalayan Foundation. They're doing amazing things on the ground to prevent girls from falling victim in Nepal, Burma, and Thailand.
live, is a big risk factor for the people who are being trafficked today. Let me just jump back to say although Eileen from the American Himalayan Foundation was unable to join us today, one of the ways that we started to collaborate in our work was that we both were on a panel and we realized that the discussions and the presentations we were providing were almost identical.
Feagin. Some say the commitment of a Himalayan expedition is too great. Others -- who venture into Alpine climbing in their 20's -- quickly retire early when they hit their childbearing years, to stay
you. So if you can do it in a Himalayan cave, you can very well do it in a Google office. You can do it anywhere on
For example, if I go to Rishikesh or Haridwar in the Himalayan Mountains and sit around with a bunch of Vedic scholars who accept statements from Vedic
in the foreland basin, the tectonic trough running alongside the Himalayan mountain range, the Indus Valley civilization was popping up around the same time.
and the negative sense, on Nepali people, high Himalayan people.
Let's hear this out. - One such village that had faced the brunt is Jhamak perched right above the tunnel entrance of one of Himalayan dams. - It was '91 or '92.
It's there in my book and autobiography, which is "Apprenticed To A Himalayan Master." It's already there on Amazon.
For example, if I go to Rishikesh or Haridwar in the Himalayan mountains and sit around with a bunch of Vedic scholars who accept statements
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. food, dancing, and all the Himalayan people from the West coast come.
The question was, so how does that help parents be employed? So we found that preschool and also alternative schools have been very important in the American Himalayan Foundation also. Most of us have really focused the majority of our work on schools, both formal and informal.
So let me describe this place to you. It's a beautiful lake surrounded by the Himalayan Mountains where legend has it that Ravi Shankar gave George Harrison his first sitar lesson.
The course was intended to be a experiential leadership course, so the first day, the leader of the program asked me to be leader for a day. And at that very first day, we were caught in the midst of the worse Himalayan storm had ever seen. These fierce winds -- that's experiential leadership with Matt Kolinsky on the other end.
The beginning of, I think the term is orogenesis, mountain-building, the true, Himalayan -style, giant mountains didn't happen until this more robust form of plate tectonics
And that is when you get the crusts hitting each other, and they start pushing, you know, into these Himalayan -style mountains.
So after that, we went for a honeymoon to HMI, Himalayan Mountaineering Institute.
And we are known as-- with mountains in India to the northern part, because most of the Himalayan ranges are with us.
And it was people close to us that were concerned, of course, but it was the elite Himalayan veterans, names that if I was to tell you, you'd recognize.
Well, a few months ago, we were in India in Dharamshala, which is in the Himalayan foothills where he has his monastery.
He has authored several books, including his memoir, "Apprenticed To A Himalayan Master, A Yogi's Autobiography." And the journey continues.
shop in Kathmandu. And per Google, I found the best one, Himalayan Singletrack.
And I spent, as Nina was saying, almost a year traveling around through India going to these monasteries that are at the top of the Himalayan mountains and meeting theses
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. I'll turn around. Yeah, so next May 18th and 19th, if you want to come to Berkeley Live Oak Park, we'll have a big Himalayan party,