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