plants rather than prescriptions and such. Since so many people use medicinal plants as their only source of healing in the Himalayas, the plants are an important source of income. This contributes to economic and modern industrial development both inside and outside the region. The only problem is that locals are rapidly clearing the forests on the Himalayas for wood, often illegally. See also Eastern and Western Himalaya Indian Himalayan Region List of Himalayan peaks and passes List of Himalayan topics List of mountains in India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal and China List of Ultras of the Himalayas Trekking peak References Sources General Geology Climate Ecology Society Pilgrimage and Tourism Mountaineering and Trekking Further reading Aitken, Bill, Footloose in the Himalaya, Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003. . Berreman, Gerald Duane, Hindus of the Himalayas: Ethnography and Change, 2nd rev. ed., Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997. Edmundson, Henry, Tales from the Himalaya, Vajra Books, Kathmandu, 2019. . Everest, the IMAX movie (1998). . Fisher, James F., Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal, 1990. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990. . Gansser, Augusto, Gruschke, Andreas, Olschak, Blanche C., Himalayas. Growing Mountains, Living Myths, Migrating Peoples, New York, Oxford: Facts On File, 1987. and New Delhi: Bookwise, 1987. Gupta, Raj Kumar, Bibliography of the Himalayas, Gurgaon, Indian Documentation Service, 1981. Hunt, John, Ascent of Everest, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1956. . Isserman, Maurice and Weaver, Stewart, Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes. Yale University Press, 2008. . Ives, Jack D. and Messerli, Bruno, The Himalayan Dilemma: Reconciling Development and Conservation. London / New York, Routledge, 1989. . Lall, J.S. (ed.) in association with Moddie, A.D., The Himalaya, Aspects of Change. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1981. . Nandy, S.N., Dhyani, P.P. and Samal, P.K., Resource Information Database of the Indian Himalaya, Almora, GBPIHED, 2006. Swami Sundaranand, Himalaya: Through the Lens of a Sadhu. Published by Tapovan Kuti Prakashan (2001). . Swami Tapovan Maharaj, Wanderings in the Himalayas, English Edition, Madras, Chinmaya Publication Trust, 1960. Translated by T.N. Kesava Pillai. Tilman, H. W., Mount Everest, 1938, Cambridge University Press, 1948. Turner, Bethan, et al. Seismicity of the Earth 1900–2010: Himalaya and Vicinity. Denver, United States Geological Survey, 2013. External links The Digital Himalaya research project at Cambridge and Yale (archived) Geology of the Himalayan mountains Birth of the Himalaya South Asia's Troubled Waters Journalistic project