1.   Years ago, they flocked to the lush Himalayan valley of apple orchards and majestic poplar trees and skied the snow-tipped peaks surrounding it.

2.   A mountain guide from New Zealand was killed in an avalanche in the Himalayan valley in northern India, police said Sunday.

3.   Army troops slipped and crawled across mud and fallen rocks on Wednesday to rescue nine people from a remote Himalayan valley on a pilgrimage route to Tibet.

4.   Attempts to solve the intractable Kashmir dispute without involving the people who live in the violence-wracked Himalayan valley are certain to fail, intellectuals said Monday.

5.   Guerrillas last month had forced paramedics and doctors to accompany them to their hideout in the Himalayan valley to treat the sick hostages.

6.   Guerrillas had last month forced paramedics and doctors to accompany them to their hideout in the Himalayan valley to treat the sick hostages.

7.   In a remote Himalayan valley, Hillary Rodham Clinton swirled a black and gold woven scarf around her shoulders and grinned with delight at the traditional craftwork.

8.   It was a time of terrible fear among Kashmiri Pandits, Hindus indigenous to the beautiful Himalayan valley.

9.   Nearby, army troops crawled across mud and fallen rocks from another slide to rescue nine people in a remote Himalayan valley.

10.   Two of the three wars were fought over Kashmir, the remote Himalayan valley, now divided between them.