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The The Himalayan mountain
system is the planet's highest and home to the world's highest peaks, the Eight-thousanders,
which include Mount Everest and K2. To comprehend the
enormous scale of this mountain range consider that Aconcagua,
in the Andes, at
6,962 m (22,841 ft), is the highest peak outside Asia, whereas the
Himalayan system includes over 100 mountains exceeding
7,200 metres (23,622 ft). The Himalayan
system, which includes various outlying subranges, stretches across six
countries: India,
Bhutan, China, Afghanistan,
Nepal, and Pakistan.
Some of the world's major rivers, the Brahmaputra, the Ganga,
the Indus,
Yamuna
and the Yangtze, rise in the Himalayas, and their combined drainage
basin is home to approximately 1.3 billion people. The The main
Himalaya range runs west to east from the Indus river valley to the
Brahmaputra river valley, forming an arc 2,400 km (1,490 mi) long,
which varies in width from 400 km in the western Kashmir-Xinjiang
region to 150 km in the eastern Tibet-Arunachal Pradesh region. The range consists of
coextensive sub-ranges. A transect north from the Indo-Gangetic Plain would first cross the
~800 meter Siwaliks
(also called Churia or Outer Himalaya), then the ~2,000 meter Mahabharat
Range (or Lesser Himalaya and some 100 km. of ranges of
similar stature called Pahad (hill country) before reaching the Great
or Inner Himalayas often consisting of several parallel ranges well over
6,000 meters. There may be a final ~6,000 meter range forming the ultimate
watershed between the Indian subcontinent and Tibetan
Plateau. (Some
information and links sourced from Wikipedia) Adventure Travel in North Pakistan http://www.kjti.co.uk/
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