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EVEREST AND HIMALAYAS
a TIBET SIDE VIEW
View of the Eastern Himalayas from CTU-LXA Flight
northern view (all photos copyright)
The Himalayas are thought to have taken shape many tens of millions of years ago when part of the Antarctica continent the future Indian subcontinent split from the Antarctica and started to move northwards to the larger what is now the Asian mainland and on reaching Asia started to push the higher Asian mainland upwards. the slow (about half an inch or more a year now) push is thought to have created a very vast mountain range that stretches from east of Afghanistan to western China. . from the east the mountain range today straddles PR China, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Chart from Internet with acknowledgement
The Himalayas has some of the highest peaks in the world which remain snow covered and include the world's highest peak, Chomolongma or commonly called Everest. the Everest is a magnet for numerous mountain climbers most of whom climb it from the Nepal side in the south of the range.
The northern side faces Tibet in China and although the climbers from the Nepal side have tried hard to conquer Everest at 29,002 feet they only succeeded in 1952 when Norgay Tenzing of Nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand climbed to the top.
The following are a few of the many pictures to come taken from a LXA-KTM flight.
More in the next Himalayas adventure Blog.
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