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The Himalaya Mountains: By:Papuc Georgiana Diana

The Himalayan mountain range stretches across several countries in Asia and is home to the highest peaks in the world, including Mount Everest. It contains a wide variety of ecosystems from subtropical forests to freezing mountain tops. More than a billion people rely on its glacier-fed rivers for water. The Eastern Himalayas harbor over 10,000 plant and animal species, including endangered populations of tigers, elephants, and rhinos. Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, is located within the Himalayas.

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The Himalaya Mountains: By:Papuc Georgiana Diana

The Himalayan mountain range stretches across several countries in Asia and is home to the highest peaks in the world, including Mount Everest. It contains a wide variety of ecosystems from subtropical forests to freezing mountain tops. More than a billion people rely on its glacier-fed rivers for water. The Eastern Himalayas harbor over 10,000 plant and animal species, including endangered populations of tigers, elephants, and rhinos. Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, is located within the Himalayas.

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The Himalaya Mountains

By:Papuc Georgiana Diana


Introduction

The Himalayas is a mountain range in Asia.


It stretches across several countries including India, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, China, Bhutan and Nepal. The Himalayan range is
home to some of the planet's highest peaks, including the
highest, Mount Everest and Karakora (K2).
When translated, the Himalayas means the ‘abode of snow’!
The Himalayas

The highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayan range is 1500 miles long and holds
within it an exceptionally varied ecology. There are subtropical forests, wetlands, and
mountain grasslands as well as the inhospitable, frozen mountain tops that tower above.
The Himalayas has the third largest amount of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica
and the Arctic.  Lots of glacial networks feed Asia’s major rivers including the Ganges, Indus,
and Brahmaputra. More than a billion people rely on these glacier-fed water sources for
drinking water and farming. The Himalayas are not only a remarkable expanse of natural
beauty. They’re also crucial for their survival.
Animals in the
Himalayas
The Eastern Himalayas is a region that harbours thousands of different species, including over 10,000 plants,
900 species of bird, and 300 species of mammal. Many of which are endangered or critically endangered.
Its grasslands are home to the densest populations of Bengal tigers, Asian elephants, and one-horned rhino. Its
mountains offer refuge to snow leopards, red pandas, takins, Himalayan black bears, and golden langurs, and its
rivers contain the world's rarest dolphins (Gangetic). It is also one of only 2 places remaining globally where
elephants, tigers, and rhinos co-
Mount Everest

Mount Everest is part of the Himalayas in Nepal and at 8,848m , it is the highest peak on the entire
planet. It is over 60 million years old and it grows by about 0.6cm every year!
The Nepalese call Mount Everest “Samgarmatha” which can be translated as “Goddess of the
Universe” or “Forehead of the Sky.”
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb Mount Everest in 1953.
The Importance of Himalayas

Thanks for the Himalaya ranges, the monsoon rains can be kept
on the Indian plain, and there is a limited amount of rainfall on
the Tibet plateau. The glacier and snowfields on the top of
Himalaya Mountains are the source of the most important rivers
in Asia, such as the Indus River, the Ganges River and the Yarlung
Tsanpo River. The forests at the foot of the Himalaya on the
southern side are the home to many endangered species, like
the Snow Leopard, Wild Yak, Himalayan blue sheep and so on.
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