The Himalaya is the greatest mountain system in the world. It
stretches 2400 km from east to west between Nanga Parbat and
Namcha Barwa peaks. Most find such an immense range of
mountains hard to envisage because the scale is beyond one's
experience.
Cradled among the mountains in the central Himalaya with
profusion of high peaks lies the kingdom of Nepal. Of the
fourteen peaks in the world that exceed 8,000 meters no fewer
than eight of them are in Nepal, including Mt. Everest the
highest in the world.
The mystery of the unknown, sheer beauty of majestic peaks and
above all, an urge to experience the challenge of climbing
world's highest mountains have attracted thousands of climbers
to the Himalayan slopes. More.... |
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