Himalayas : Factfile

• The Mount Everest was named by Sir Andrew Waugh, a British Army Officer to give respect to his predecessor, Colonel Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843
• The Himalayas is considered to be the tallest and youngest mountain ranges (approximately 70 million years old)
• This great mountain range moves approximately 20mm every year.
• Himalayas are the highest mountains in the world, with 30 peaks towering over 24, 000 feet.
• Himalayas cover 0.4% of earth’s It includes 612,021 square kilometres of the total 153,295,000 square km area of earth.
• The Great Himalayas, the highest zone, include a huge line of snow peaks with an average height, which exceeds 6,100 m (20, 000 feet). This region is one of the most unapproachable areas in the world.
• Edmund Hillary was the first person to reach the top of mountain on May 29, 1953
• More than 5000 people are believed to have climbed the Everest till now.
• Popular peaks for climbing in the Himalayas can be — K2, Kanchenjunga, Lahotse and Dhaulagiri.
• In Nepal, people called the Himalayas by the name ‘Sagarmatha’ that means the Goddess of the Universe
• There are more than 15,000 glaciers in the Everest
• The Highest Motorable road is Khardungla

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