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Mardi Himal (Nepali: मर्दी हिमाल) is a 5,587-metre (18,330 ft) peak beneath the much more prominent Machapuchare in the Annapurna region of Nepal, from which it is separated by a 5,200 metres (17,060 ft) col. It was first summited in 1961 by Basil Goodfellow.
A land cover map of Nepal using Landsat 30 m (2010) data. ICIMOD ’s first and most complete national land cover [ 24 ] database of Nepal prepared using public domain Landsat TM data of 2010 shows that show that forest is the dominant form of land cover in Nepal covering 57,538 km 2 with a contribution of 39.09% to the total geographical area ...
Nepal contains most of the Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world. Eight of the fourteen eight-thousanders are located in the country, either in whole or shared across a border with China or India. Nepal has the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest at an astonishing height of 8,848.86m as well as 1,310 peaks over 6,000 m height.
Dhampus is a village and Village Development Committee in Kaski District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. The village is located 19 km away from the Pokhara Baglung Highways and falls within the trekking route of Mardi Himal Trek. [1] At the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 2,753 persons in 547 individual households. The ...
The valleys of Nepal (Nepali: नेपालका उपत्यकाहरू) are situated in three physiographic regions: Terai, Hilly, and Himal. [1] As Nepal is landlocked by India on three sides and China 's Tibet Autonomous Region to the north, much of its population is concentrated in valleys and lowlands.
Machapuchare, Machhapuchchhre or Machhapuchhre (from Nepali माछापुच्छ्रे 'fishtail', Tamu: कतासुँ क्लिको), is a ...
On the Nepal-Tibet border at the upper end of Mustang. The Kali Gandaki Gorge (a graben ), [ 13 ] transects the main Himalaya and Transhimalayan ranges. Kora La is the lowest pass through both ranges between K2 and Everest , but some 300 metres (980 ft) higher than Nathula and Jelepla passes further east between Sikkim and Tibet
The Great Himalaya Trail is a route across the Himalayas from east to west. The original concept was to establish a single long distance trekking trail from the east end to the west end of Nepal that includes a total of roughly 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi) of path.