Of the fifteen highest mountain peaks in the World, nine of them are contained within the Nepal Himalayas.
Mount Everest (8,848 meters or 29,029 feet), the highest mountain in the world, is part of the Himalayas in Nepal. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first recorded people to climb Mount Everest in 1953.
Although Nepal is famous for the Himalayas, this beautiful range of mountains also reaches into China, India, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The literal translation of Himalayas amounts of 'abode of snow'.
The Himalayas are young folded mountains that stretch across a distance of 2500 km (1554 miles) from west to east, in a curve.
Himalayas stretches over 75% of Nepal, with over 250 mountain peaks, all of them crossing a height of 6000 meters (19,685 feet).
