Wild plant raw material is in great demand around the world for use by pharmaceutical companies, ethnomedicinal practitioners, and a variety of traditional medicines. India is one of the world’s major exporters of raw herbal drugs and the Himalayas are renowned for their vast storehouse of medicinal plants. The domestic and international demand is met mainly through unsustainable in-situ harves...

The purpose of the study was to examine potential differences between male and female alpine ski naive young people in attitudes towards alpine skiing before and after the completion of structured alpine ski school program. We included 136 ski beginners (41 women and 95 men) who anonymously filled out a previously validated 26-item Lickert scale-type questionnaire related to their attitudes tow...

A study of taste sensitivity of P.T.C. and colour blindness among the Brahmins of Sundarnagar of Himachal Pradesh was done. The t gene frequency was found to be 0.4391 in the total population, and that of colourblindness 3.093 % among the males. The results have been compared with the populations of Himalayan region of India. The trait of colour blindness among the populations of Himalayan regi...

In the last hundred years alone, there have occurred more than 2000 earthquakes larger 4 in northern and northwestern parts of Iran. Because Iran is placed heart Alpine-Himalayan collision zone, which one world’s greatest seismic locations, massive regularly struck country. Seismic hazard assessment a realistic helpful method for engineering seismology to prevent motions location order forecast...

Lactation curves are a graphical representation of the milk production profile of a doe from parturition to drying up. Their shape provides information about the productivity of the doe and offers a means of explaining features of the milk production patterns of each animal. A total of 2732 daily morning milk records from 610 does of the Kenyan Alpine dairy goats’ genetic groups (50% Alpine, 75...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether previous Himalayan experience is associated with a decreased risk of climbing death, and whether mountaineers participating in commercial expeditions differ in their risk of death relative to those participating in traditional climbs. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Expeditions in the Nepalese Himalayan peaks, from 1 January 1970 to the spring clim...

1. Alpine plants are at high risk because of climate change. Assessing the performance of alpine plant species across different altitudes is useful for predicting how they may respond to changing climate. Adaptation and plasticity of early life stages are of particular interest since seed germination and seedling establishment could be crucial life-history stages for environmental tracking and ...