1.   Access to this remote uninhabited Himalayan mountain is via high snow-covered passes.

2.   American Buddhism traces its roots to the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, a wealthy prince who lived in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains six centuries before Christ.

3.   A million heavily armed troops massed along Himalayan mountain passes.

4.   Essayists, like Himalayan mountain climbers, achieve fame through ambition and carefully controlled recklessness.

5.   The first Indians to discover something was badly wrong in the high, bleak Himalayan mountains above Kargil this spring were goatherds.

6.   The Pakistani and Indian soldiers eye each other warily from observation posts on jagged Himalayan mountain ridges that scratch across the soft blue sky like an electrocardiogram.

7.   The wilfully isolated Himalayan mountain kingdom of Bhutan has finally let television inside its borders.

8.   Pakistan has accused India of dangerously escalating the conflict with attacks on civilian targets and overreacting to the several hundred Muslim insurgents hunkered down in the Himalayan mountains.

9.   A body exhumed from a Kashmir grave is not one of the two British hostages kidnapped from the Himalayan mountains two years ago, police said Friday.

10.   A Japanese and two Frenchmen climbing Himalayan mountains are missing, the government said Wednesday.