GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Himalaya is the world’s highest mountain range home to all fourteen peaks over 8, 000m including Everest and K2 . Himalaya means “abode of snow” with an estimated 15, 000 glaciers throughout the range.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Himalayas or Greater Himalayas or Himadri is the highest mountain range of the Himalayan Range. The world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, as well as other “near−highest” peaks, such as Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, and Nanga Parbat, are part of the Greater Himalayas range.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Himalayas holds the record for the world’s tallest mountain range. The highest range of the Himalayas is called Mount Everest and is about 8, 848 metre high above mean sea level.

Detailed explanation-4: -2. K2, Karakoram, Pakistan/China – 8611m. The second highest mountain in the world is K2. The mountain took its name from the notation used by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of British India.