Fun and Simple Facts about the Himalayas

Here are the fun and simple facts about the Himalayas.
1. The Himalayas means the ‘abode of snow’!
2. The Himalayas formed approximately 70 million of years ago following a collision between India and Asia via the Indo Austrlian and Eurasian plates. This tremendous collision resulted in the beautiful Himalayan range for which Nepal is now so famous.
3. 64% of Nepal is covered by the Himalayas or Mountains
4. Eight of the fourteen eight-thousanders are located in Nepal, either in whole or shared across a border with Tibet or India.
5. Himalaya is the source of major rivers of Nepal
6. 31 of the Himalayan peaks exceed 7,600 meters
7. Of the fifteen highest mountain peaks in the World, nine of them are contained within the Nepal Himalayas
8. Mount Everest (8,848 metres), the highest mountain in the world, is part of the Himalayas in Nepal. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb Mount Everest in 1953.
9. Himalayas continue to rise 1 cm every year - a growth rate of 10 km in a million years (source : U.S. Geological Survey)
10. Nepal has more than 200 mountains over 6000 meter height
11. Over a 1000 mountain expeditions takes places every year in Nepal, each expeditions carrying an average of 30 people, more than 80% of those expeditions are towards the Himalayas
12. Another well known fact is that the Himalayas is the source of the Indus Basin, the Yangtze Basin and the Ganga-Brahmaptura which are three of the worlds primary river systems
13. The Himalayas are geologically alive! The southern front moves approximately 20 mm a year and it is estimated that in 10 million years time, the Himalayas will have moved approximately 1,500 km into Asia