1. Himalaya - Noun
2. Himalaya - Proper noun
a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain
Source: WordNetMy most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too. Edmund Hillary
For what purpose then, has this enormous territory been committed to England? .... that every man, woman and child from Cape Comorin ot the Himalaya mountains, may be elevated, enlightened, Christianised. Monier Monier-Williams
This quote, or one similar to it, is often attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, however it was written by Mr. Murray near the beginning of the The Scottish Himalaya Expedition. W. H. Murray
About 20 mm per year of the India-Asia convergence is absorbed by thrusting along the Himalaya southern front. Source: Internet
Across from the main Himalaya Range, even the southwest cloudbands break up and the climate of Ladakh and Zanskar is extremely dry and cold. Source: Internet
A few tens kilometers further north the high Himalaya abruptly rise along the Main Central Thrust fault zone above the snow line at convert. Source: Internet