Himalaya with Michael Palin
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| Himalaya with Michael Palin | |
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| Format | Travel |
| Starring | Michael Palin |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 06 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 50 min |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC |
| Original airing | 2004 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Sahara with Michael Palin |
| Followed by | Michael Palin's New Europe |
Himalaya with Michael Palin was a 2004 BBC television series presented by comedian and travel presenter Michael Palin. It records his six-month trip around the Himalaya mountain range area. The trip covered only 3,000 miles (4,800 km) horizontally, but involved a lot of vertical traveling, including several treks up into the mountains. The highest point attained by Michael Palin was Everest Base Camp at 17,500 feet (5,300 meters).
A book by the same name written by Palin was published to accompany the series. This book contained both Palin's text and many pictures by Basil Pao, the stills photographer on the team. Basil Pao also produced a separate book of the photographs he took during the journey, Inside Himalaya, a large coffee-table style book printed on glossy paper.
[edit] Episodes
The program is divided up into six one-hour episodes.
| # | Title | Countries Visited | Plot | |
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| 1 | North by Northwest | Pakistan | Features Khyber Pass, Peshawar, Gilgit, Chitral and K2. | |
| 2 | A Passage to India | Pakistan and India | Features Lahore, Amritsar, Shimla, Dharamsala and Srinagar, with a special meeting with the Dalai Lama. | |
| 3 | Annapurna to Everest | Nepal and China (Tibet Province) | Features Kathmandu, Pokhara, Annapurna Mountain and the Everest base camp (northern, Chinese side). Includes Palin's meeting with King Gyanendra of Nepal and a scare involving the Maoist rebels. | |
| 4 | The Roof of the World | China (Tibet and Quinghai Province) | Features Lhasa and Yushu. | |
| 5 | Leaping Tiger, Naked Nagas | China (Yunnan Province) and India (Nagaland State) | Features Kunming, Lijiang, Lugu Lake and the Naga village of Longwa on the Indian-Burmese border. Includes a trek along Tiger Leaping Gorge. | |
| 6 | Bhutan to the Bay of Bengal | India (Assam State), Bhutan and Bangladesh | Features Kaziranga National Park, Thimphu, Sylhet, Dhaka and Chittagong. Ends on the Bay of Bengal. This episode was one of the few instances where the media gave attention to the Grameen Bank and Muhammed Yunus's efforts, in the micro-economic scale in Bangladesh before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for it. |
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