Himalayan Tour
The Himalayas also Himalaya are a mountain
range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the
Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it is also the name of the
massive mountain system which includes the Himalaya proper,
the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and a host of minor ranges
extending from the Pamir Knot. The name is from Sanskrit
himālaya, a tatpurusa compound meaning "the abode of
snow".Together, the Himalaya mountain system is the planet's
highest and home to the world's highest peaks: the Eight-thousanders,
including Mount Everest. To comprehend the enormous scale of
Himalayan peaks, consider that Aconcagua, in the Andes, at
6,962 m, is the highest peak outside the Himalaya, while the
Himalayan system has over 100 separate mountains exceeding
7,200 meters.
The Himalaya region is dotted with hundreds of lakes.Most
lakes are found at altitudes of less than 5,000 m, with the
size of the lakes diminishing with altitude. The largest lake
is the Pangong Tso, which is spread across the border between
India and Tibet. It is situated at an altitude of 4,600 m, and
is 8 km wide and nearly 134 km long. A notable high lake is
the Gurudogmar in North Sikkim at an altitude of 5,148 m.Other
major lakes include the Tsongmo lake, near the Indo-China
border in Sikkim and Tilicho lake, a large lake in an area
that was closed to outsiders until recently.
The Himalayas stretch across six nations:
Bhutan,China,India,Nepal,Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is the
source of three of the world's major river systems, the Indus
Basin, the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin and the Yangtze Basin. An
estimated 750 million people live in the watershed area of the
Himalayan rivers,which also includes Bangladesh.
The Himalayan range encompasses a very large number of
glaciers,notable among which is the Siachen Glacier, the
largest in the world outside the polar region.Some of the
other more famous glaciers include the Gangotri and
Yamunotri,Nubra, Biafo and Baltoro,Zemu and Khumbu glaciers.
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