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The Trans himalaya (also spelled Trans-Himalaya), or "Gangdise – Nyenchen Tanglha range" (Chinese: 冈底斯-念青唐古拉山脉; pinyin: Gāngdǐsī-Niànqīngtánggǔlā Shānmài), is a 1,600-kilometre-long (990 mi) mountain range in China, India and Nepal, extending in a west–east direction parallel to the main Himalayan range.
Westernmost peak of Himalayas, rises 7000m above Indus River. 10 Annapurna I "Goddess of the Harvests" 8,100 26,568 2,984 33.9 Central Nepal: 1950: North of Pokhara: 14 Shishapangma "Crest above the grassy plains", Gosainthan: 8,064 26,450
The Trans-Himalayan Multi-dimensional Connectivity Network (abbreviated as THMCN and sometimes referred to as the Trans-Himalayan network) is an economic corridor between Nepal and China and part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, a global development initiative that develops connectivity especially across Eurasia.
The Himalayas, or Himalaya (/ ˌ h ɪ m ə ˈ l eɪ. ə, h ɪ ˈ m ɑː l ə j ə / HIM-ə-LAY-ə, hih-MAH-lə-yə) [b] is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.
Sino-Tibetan (also referred to as Trans-Himalayan) [1] [2] is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. [3] Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. [4] The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Sinitic languages.
A camp en route to the Karakoram Himalayas, 1909 [DAG] A decade later, Sella reached new heights - both literally and artistically - on a 1909 expedition to K2 with the Duke of the Abruzzi.
Tectonic units of the Himalaya. Green is the Indus-Yarlung suture zone. Red is the Transhimalaya where Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains lies. Lhasa to the east. One source says the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains range is about 1,000 km (620 mi) in length. Its highest point is 7,090 m (23,260 ft) located 100 km (62 mi) to the northwest of Lhasa.
Nearly a decade after controversial reality show Gigolos went off the air, a new docuseries is set to cover the violent death of a woman at the hands of one of the show's former stars.. Gigolos ...