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peut citer l’exemple du Valais en Suisse, qui fonctionnait selon cette logique de complémentarité 110 mais qui est aujourd’hui transformé par la modernisation, tandis que ces systèmes fonctionnent encore dans quelques vallées de l’Himalaya, du Karakoram, de l’Hindou- Kouch et des Andes, même si le processus de transformation est amorcé. De tels systèmes se composent de plusieurs niveaux d’utilisation des terres et de plusieurs niveaux d’habitat, qui sont utilisés au cours de l’année, soit de

the Alps. As compared with such facts as these, the distinction between the lower uplands and the lowlands, between the Iranian Upland, let us say, and the Great Lowland, becomes altogether subordinate. Tibet, with its attendant Himalaya, Pamirs, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Tianshatr----call them together the Tibetan Heights---has no parallel on earth for combined height and area, or, in a single word, for massiveness. When the Sahara shall be crossed and recrossed daily by the traffic of civilization

traditionally measure mountains by their height. If we measured them by their size, it would be meaningless to isolate one mountain in a range from the rest. That being so, Mount Everest would dwarf Olympus Mons. It is part of the gigantic Himalaya—Karakoram—Hindu-Kush—Pamir range, which is nearly 1,500 miles long. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html How many legs does a centipede have? Not a hundred. The wordcentipede is from the Latin for “a hundred feet

five years, she married a Parsi businessman, Noshir Sidhwa, in Pakistan. At the age of twenty-six, now the mother of two children, she heard the story of a young Punjabi girl who had been forced to marry a jealous and violent husband in the remote Karakoram Mountains on the border with China. The girl ran away from her abusive spouse, but was tracked down and beheaded by him. Sidhwa felt she had to tell the girl’s story. She Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India (1988) 101 secretly began work on her