GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -It rises with an elevation of 8, 586 m or 28, 169 ft in the Himalayas. Kangchenjunga is the second highest peak of the Himalaya after Mount Everest. The main peak of Kangchenjunga is the highest mountain in India and the second highest in Nepal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Within a stretch of roughly 50 miles (80 km), the land rises from an elevation of about 750 feet (225 metres) in the Tista River valley to nearly 28, 200 feet (8, 600 metres) at Kanchenjunga, India’s highest peak and the world’s third highest mountain.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mount K2 (8611 meters), located in Jammu and Kashmir, also known as Godwin-Austen is the highest peak in India.

Detailed explanation-4: -With a height of over 8.5 thousand meters above sea level, the Kanchenjunga peak is the tallest mountain in India. It borders Nepal and India and has five peaks. This was followed by Nanda Devi at a height of around 7.8 thousand meters.

Detailed explanation-5: -Khangchendzonga National Park is home to nearly half of India’s bird diversity, wild trees, orchids and rhododendrons and one third of the country’s flowering plants. It contains the widest and most extensive zone of krummholz (stunted forest) in the Himalayan region.