This region begins at the Mahabharat Range ( Lesser Himalaya ) where a fault system called the Main Boundary Thrust creates an escarpment high, to a crest between.

Annual precipitation reaches on windward slopes in the Annapurna Himalaya beyond a relatively low stretch of the Mahabharat Range.

It is one of the Greater Ranges of Asia, a part of the greater Himalaya while north of the actual Himalaya Range.

A significant part, 28-50 % of the Karakoram Range is glaciated, compared to the Himalaya ( 8-12 %) and European Alps ( 2. 2 %).

They herd sheep, goats and cattle in high summer pastures as far north as the western Dhaulagiri Himalaya in Rukum district, moving south to the Mahabharat Range in winter.

The gorge cuts through the Mahabharat Range or Lesser Himalaya.

The Chobar gorge cuts through the Mahabharat Range, also called the Lesser Himalaya.

The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lies between the Himalaya n range to the south and the Kunlun Range to the north.

Geologically, the Zanskar Range is part of the Tethys Himalaya, an approximately 100-km-wide synclinorium formed by strongly folded and imbricated, weakly metamorphosed sedimentary series.

His love of the mountains had begun as far back as 1950, when he went to the Nilgiris, Mardamalai Mountains with his son Visvanath ; this was followed by similar visits to the mountains in north India, Dehra Dun 1950, Mussoorie / Chakrata 1952, Nainital, Garhwal Himalaya, ( Hartola, 1952 ), Punjab / Himachal Himalaya, ( Dhaula Dhar Range, 1953 ) and to Kullu, Manali region leading to the three pioneering expeditions, in 1954, 1955 and 1956, beyond the Pir Panjal Range, to the inner or Great Himalayan Range, in Lahaul & Spiti regions.

The slopes of Afarwat Hills of the Pir Panjal Range of the Himalaya Chain boast one of the longest and highest ski slopes in Asia.

The Mahabharat Range ( mahābhārat shrinkhalā ) – also called the Lesser Himalaya – is a major east-west mountain range with elevations 1, 500 to 2, 700 meters ( 5, 000 to 9, 000 feet ) along the crest, paralleling the much higher Great Himalaya range from the Indus River in Pakistan across northern India, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan but then the two ranges become increasingly difficult to differentiate east of Bhutan as the ranges approach the Brahmaputra River.

The Mahabharat range also parallels the lower Siwalik or Churia Range ( Outer Himalaya ) to the south.

Drainage systems have evolved candelabra configurations with numerous tributaries flowing south from the Himalaya through the Middle Hills, gathering immediately north of the Mahabharat Range and cutting through in major gorges as the Karnali in the west, the Gandaki or Narayani in central Nepal, and the Kosi in the east.

The dramatic changes in elevation along this transect result in a variety of biomes, from tropical savannas along the Indian border, to subtropical broadleaf and coniferous forests in the hills, to temperate broadleaf and coniferous forests on the slopes of the Himalaya, to montane grasslands and shrublands, and finally rock and ice at the highest elevations.

Most of Tibet sits atop a geological structure known as the Tibetan Plateau which includes the Himalaya and many of the highest mountain peaks in the world.

At, Gasherbrum II is the third highest peak of the Gasherbrum massif, located in the Karakoram range of the Himalaya.

They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur.

Gyachung Kang (, Gyāchung Kāng ; ) is a mountain in the Mahalangur Himal section of the Himalaya, and is the highest peak between Cho Oyu ( 8, 201 m ) and Mount Everest ( 8, 848 m ).

The main summit stands guarded by a barrier ring comprising some of the highest mountains in the Indian Himalayas ( one of which is Nanda Devi East ), twelve of which exceed 6, 400 m ( 21, 000 ft ) in height, further elevating its sacred status as the daughter of the Himalaya in Indian myth and folklore.

In this context, Brown's mountaineering achievements in the Alps and Himalaya have often been overlooked: he made many significant ascents in the Alps in the 1950s with Don Whillans and other members of the Rock and Ice climbing club and, in 1955, the first ascent of the third highest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga in the Nepalese Himalaya, with George Band.

Situated in the Daxue Shan mountain range, part of the Hengduan mountainous region, Mount Gongga is the easternmost peak in the world and the third highest peak outside of the Himalaya / Karakoram.

It is a long, deep, whirring, haunting wail that takes you out somewhere beyond the highest Himalaya peaks and at the same time back into your mother's womb.

* For the first time, a helicopter lands on top of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest in Himalaya.

The basin comprises semi-arid valleys in the rain shadow north of the Himalaya, densely forested mountains south of the highest ranges, the scrubby Shiwalik foothills and the fertile Gangetic Plains.

Saussurea is a genus of about 300 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to cool temperate and arctic regions of Asia, Europe, and North America, with the highest diversity in alpine habitats in the Himalaya and central Asia.

The higher mountains have a special flora showing close agreement over wide intervals of space, as well as affinities with the mountain flora of the eastern Mediterranean, the Himalaya and Indo-China.

Since uplift and erosion are more or less in equilibrium in the Himalaya, rapid uplift is balanced by annual increments of cubic kilometers of sediments washing down from the mountains, then on the plains settling out of suspension on vast alluvial fans or inland deltas over which rivers meander and change course at least every few decades, causing some experts to question whether manmade embankments can contain the problem of flooding.

* Similarly, the Vasistha Dharma Sutra I. 8-9 and 12-13 locates Aryavarta to the east of the disappearance of the Sarasvati in the desert, to the west of Kalakavana, to the north of the mountains of Pariyatra and Vindhya and to the south of the Himalaya.

The Salween, Mekong, Yangtze and Huang He ( Yellow River ) all originate from parts of the Tibetan plateau that are geologically distinct from the Himalaya mountains, and are therefore not considered true Himalayan rivers.

If the orogeny is due to two continents colliding, the resulting mountains can be very high ( see Himalaya ).

They are distributed in the mountains and foothills of Himalaya, India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and China and are well adapted to cold temperatures and even frost.

It begins with a fine description of that giant among mountains, the Himalaya.

Alpine Swifts breed in mountains from southern Europe to the Himalaya.

They run parallel to the Himalaya mountains, from Jammu and Kashmir in the west to Assam in the east and draining most of northern and eastern India.

Three further disjunct populations occur in mountain conifer forests further south, one centered on the mountains of central and southeast Europe ( the Alps, the Carpathians and the Balkan Peninsula mountains ); another in the western Himalaya ; and the third in western China seaboard and separated from the northern population by a relatively small gap in the north centre of China.

Pinus wallichiana is a coniferous evergreen tree native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern Afghanistan east across northern Pakistan and India to Yunnan in southwest China.

According to Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Demogorgon has a splendid temple palace in the Himalaya mountains where every five years the fates and genii are all summoned to appear before him and give an account of their actions.

The eight-thousanders are the fourteen mountains over 8, 000 m ( 26, 427 feet ) above sea level, all in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges of Asia.

China could be supplied only by flying over the Himalaya mountains (" The Hump ") from India, or capturing territory in Burma and building a new road — the Ledo Road.

The rest of Kumaon is a maze of mountains, part of the Himalaya range, some of which are among the loftiest known.

When the Indian subcontinent collided with Asia during the Late Eocene / Early Oligocene, this event caused the uplift of the Himalaya mountains while closing off the eastern Tethys Ocean, thus changing weather patterns, and caused Central Asia to dry out, ultimately resulting in a dramatic faunal turnover.

Siliguri, situated as it is in the plains at the base of the Himalaya mountains, connects the hill stations such as Gangtok, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Kurseong and Mirik and northeast states to the rest of India.