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The Himalayas are the highest mountain range in the world, stretching 2,400 km along the northern border of India. It consists of three parallel ranges - the Greater Himalayas, Middle Himalayas, and Outer Himalayas - with heights increasing from south to north. The Greater Himalayas contain many of the world's highest peaks, such as Mount Everest, and are characterized by heights over 6,000m and permanent snow cover. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1959.

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The Himalayas are the highest mountain range in the world, stretching 2,400 km along the northern border of India. It consists of three parallel ranges - the Greater Himalayas, Middle Himalayas, and Outer Himalayas - with heights increasing from south to north. The Greater Himalayas contain many of the world's highest peaks, such as Mount Everest, and are characterized by heights over 6,000m and permanent snow cover. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1959.

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The Himalayas

• 'Himalaya', a Sanskrit word, means 'home of


snow'. The Himalaya is the highest
mountain range in the world.
• It protects India from the cold winds
coming from the northern regions of Asia.
• The length of the Himalaya is 2400 km .
• Himalaya is 450 million years old 
• Himalayas stretch along the northern boundary
of India from Jammu Kashmir in the west
to Arunachal Pradesh.
 Animals live in Himalayas are wild
boar,Himalayas blue sheep , Himalayas black
bear ,Himalayas monal, Himalayas thar red
pandas, snow leopard
The Himalayas consists
of three parallel ranges:
1. The Greater Himalayas
2. The Middle Himalayas
3. The Outer Himalayas
The height of
the ranges increases from the Outer
Himalayas to the Greater Himalayas.
The Greater Himalayas:
This is the northern-most range and
the hightest among the
three Himalayan ranges.
 Some of the
hightest mountain peaks are located
here, such as the Mount Everest and
Mount Kanchenjunga.
The  average height of the ranges is
more than 6000m and the peaks are
always covered with snow.
Many glaciers are found here such
as
the Ganga, Yamuna, Brahmaputra
and Sutlej.
The Middle Himalayas:
This lies at the south of the Greater
Himalayas.
The average height of the range is
abount 3700m.
The winters are cold with snoefall
but summers are cool and pleasant.
The mountain are covered with
The Outer Himalayas:
This is the southern most range of
the Himalayas.
It is a;so knows as the Shivaliks.
The average height of
the range is about 900-1,200m.
The rivers enter the plains afterthis
region.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were
the first man to reach in the Mount Everest
in1959
Junko Tobie was the first woman to reach in
the Mount.

 Everest 
Arunima Sinha was the first
Indian female to go with
one leg she was pushed out
of the running train by the
robbers at 2011

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