The Himalaya.

The Himalaya.

Himalayas is a mountain range 1500 miles long from west to east on the border of Tibet and India. Kindoms of Nepal and Bhutan in between lie on this range. This range is world’s greatest mountain Himalayas covering an area of 2, 40000 square miles.

India’s greatest heritage Himalaya link 1500 miles long from Tibet to Nepal to
Bhutan to Sikkim to Burma is now comprised of:

Bhutan Himalayas. 100 miles.
Nepal Himalayas 600 miles.
Tibet Himalayas 400 miles
Indian Himalayas. 400 miles.

According to poet dreamer and a joker, Prime Minister, “Himalayas belong to all.”
Bhutan Nepal etc offered to join India in 1947, which Nehru did not accept.
Nehru accepted China’s claim over Tibet to Chou-en-lie in 1958 Bandung conference.

Nehru was a dreamer. Dreamers can not be diplomats. Nehru is responsible
for the present day mess. World knows to make big claims of our land, then we give half. They have known India’s weakness.


(For example) (After partition everything is settled, all of a sudden one fine morning Pakistan makes claim of entire Kutch runn area.
Nehru forms a committee to negotiate with them. Finally the matter is referred to UNO
Arbitration committee which gives away prize piece of land of Chhad bet to Pakistan and
all of runn to India. Justice has been done. Of course when the award came in 1968
Indira Gandhi announced that India will never now onward go to UNO for any issue).

The Himalaya. great mountain system of Asia form a barrier between the Tibetan Plateau to the north and the alluvial plains of the Indian subcontinent to the south. The Himalayas include the highest mountains in the world, with more than 110 peaks rising to elevations of 24,000 feet (7,300 metres) or more above sea level.

One of these peaks is Mount Everest (Tibetan: Chomolungma; Chinese Chu-mu-lang-ma Feng; Nepali: Sagarmatha), the world's highest, which reaches a height of 29,028 feet (8,848 metres). The great heights of the mountains rise above the line of perpetual snow.

For thousands of years the Himalayas have exerted a personal and profound effect on the peoples of South Asia, as their literature, politics, and economies, as well as their mythologies and religions, reflect. The vast glaciated heights long have attracted the attention of the pilgrim mountaineers of ancient India, who coined the Sanskrit name Himalaya--from hima, "snow," and alaya, "abode"--for this great mountain system. In modern times the Himalayas have constituted the greatest attraction and the greatest challenge to mountaineers throughout the world.

Forming the northern border of the Indian subcontinent and an almost impassable barrier between it and the lands to the north, the ranges are part of a great mountain belt that stretches 1500 miles long and on an average 150 miles width.

The Himalayas themselves stretch uninterruptedly for about 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometres) from west to east between Nanga Parbat (26,660 feet), in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, and Namcha Barwa (25,445 feet), in Tibet.

Between these eastern and western extremities lie the two Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal and Bhutan.

The Himalayas are bordered to the northwest by the mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush and Karakoram and to the north by the high Plateau of Tibet. The width of the Himalayas from south to north varies between 125 and 250 miles. Their total area amounts to about 229,500 square miles (594,400 square kilometres).Though India, Nepal, and Bhutan have sovereignty over most of the Himalayas, Pakistan and China also occupy parts of them.

In the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has administrative control of some 32,400 square miles of the range lying north and west of a "line of control" established between India and Pakistan in 1972.

China's occupation of 14,000 square miles in the Ladakh district of Kashmir, as well as Chinese incursions in 1962 south of the McMahon Line (a 1914 boundary line establishing the limit of Tibetan sovereignty in the Assam district of north eastern India) into what is now Arunachal Pradesh, have accentuated further the boundary problems faced by India in the Himalayan region.


The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of South Asia; many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.


The main Himalaya range runs, west to east, from the Indus river valley to the Brahmaputra river valley, forming an arc 2,400 km (1,491 mi) long, which varies in width from 400 km (249 mi) in the western Kashmir-Xinjiang region to 150 km (93 mi) in the eastern Tibet-Arunachal Pradesh region.

The range consists of three coextensive sub-ranges, with the northern-most, and highest, known as the Great or Inner Himalayas.

Ladakh Himalayas in India.
Himachal Pradesh Himalayas.
Sikkim Himalayas.
Kumaon Garhwal Himalayas.


Following mystic entities are associated with Himalayas.
Yetti a creature of cryptology, a large primate like creature supposed to be roaming.
Scientists say its existence is unpersuasive and a legend, misidentification.

Shambhala is a mystical city with legend associated with it that 24 hidden realms
Of Beyul in Vajrayana,Buddhism are hidden and preserved here. Others believe
That it is all a work of imagination.

Sangri-la is a fictional utopia based on Shambhala as described in Lost Horizon
by James Hilton

Himalayas is very rich in forestry and protects India from severe northern winds.
All the major rivers flow from Himalayas. It is the Umbrella under which
India is happily protected.


A pilgrimage to Vaisno Devi or Kailas Man Sarovar is a rare opportunity.
Himalaya has protected us since ages.
We have failed to protect Himalayas and have divided it into pieces.