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• Critical thinking
• Information literacy
21st CENTURY SKILLS
• AIL

2 India—The Northern

Mountains
Competencies
C-1.1, C-4.2, C-5.3
Warm Up

Tick () the correct name of the person in picture.

1. Tenzing Norgay 2. Bachendri Pal

Along the northern boundary of India,
there is a long and a very high chain
of mountains. This chain includes the
Karakoram mountain range and the

Himalayan mountain ranges. The
Himalayas is the highest mountain range
in the world. The word, ‘Himalaya’ means

the ‘Home of Snow’. In the extreme north-
western part lies the Karakoram range.
It is in Ladakh. It has Mount Godwin
Austin or K2, about 8611 metres high, the second highest peak in the
world. The Himalayan mountain ranges extend to a distance of about

2,500 kilometres from west to east. Their width varies from about 400
kilometres to 150 kilometres. These mountains are broader in the west
than in the east. The world’s highest mountain, Mt Everest (8848 m), is

in the Himalayas.

The Ranges of Himalayas

The Himalayan mountains have three distinct parallel ranges. These are:

? ? The Greater Himalayas or the Himadri

? ? The Lesser Himalayas or the Himachal

? ? The Lower Himalayas or the Shiwalik

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