Himalayas
Introduction to Himalayas in Nepal
The Himalayas or "abode of snow" is in fact the youngest and highest mountain
system in the world. It extends over 2,400kms as a vast south-facing area
between the Indus and Brahmaputra rivers with Nanga Parbat (8,125m) and Namcha
Barwa (7,755m) as its terminal high points. Fully a third of 800kms of its
central section traverses Nepal and is known as the Nepal Himalayas, Here
congregate more than 250 peaks that exceed 6,000m in height-a unique
concentration of lofty dazzling summits. Of the thirty one Himalayan peaks over
7,600m, twenty-two lies in Nepal Himalayas including eight of the world's ten
highest peaks.
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