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3 HIGHEST PEAKS OF INDIA

India has many diverse physical features like fertile plain, delta, snowy mountains, dry desert, evergreen forest. In this blog, we are giving details of top 3 highest peaks of India.

1. K2

Height: 8611 m

Location: Lies between Baltistan and Xinjiang

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Facts: The highest peak in Indian subcontinent and second highest in the world.

K2, chinese Qogir Feng, also called Mount Godwin Austen, called locally Daspang or Chagori.

K2 is located in the Karakoram Range and it lies partly in a chinese-administrated enclave of the Kashmir region within the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China and partly in the Gilgit-Baltistan portion of Kashmir under the administration of Pakistan. 

2. Kanchenjunga Peak

Height: 8586 m

Location: Sikkim

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Facts: Kanchenjunga, also spelled Kangchenjunga or Kinchinjunga, Nepali Kumbhkaran Lungur, highest peak in India and third highest in world.

Note: It is also known as "five treasures of snow".

It is situated in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Sikkim state, northeasten India, and easten Nepal, 46 miles (74 Km) north-northwest of Darjiling, Sikkim. The mountain is part of Great Himalaya Range. The Kanchenjunga massif is in the form of gigantic cross, the arms of which extend north, south, east and west.

Kanchenjunga is composed of rocks of Neoproterozoic (late precambrian) to ordovician age (i.e about 445 million to 1 billion years old). The individual summits connect to neighbouring peaks by four main ridges, from which four glaciers flow- the Zemu (notheast), the Talung (southeast), the Yalung (southwest) and the Kanchenjunga (northwest).       

The name Kanchengunga is derived from the four words of Tibetian origin, usually rendered Kang-chen-dzo-nga or Yang-chhen-dzo-nga and interpreted in Sikkim as the "Five Treasures of the Great Snow".

3. Nanda Devi Peak

Height: 7816 m

Location: Uttarakhand

Copyright: thehindu.com

Facts: It is the second highest peak in India and 23rd highest peak in world.

It consists of best high altitude of flora and fauna. It was the highest known mountain in the world until 1808 when western surveyors discovers Dhaulagiri.


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