• Shangri La Superlatives
• An Exhilarating trek to a glacier called Milam
• Physical Characteristics of Himalayas
• Himalayas labeled "The Highest Junkyard in the world

Shangri La Superlatives

Shangri La is a land of geographical contrasts. The Shangri La region can boast the world of several amazing records :

• The highest point in the world -Mt. Everest (8,848m high)
• The youngest mountain range in the world - the Himalaya RangeThe deepest river gorge in the world - Kali Gandaki river gorge, Central Nepal
• The deepest valley in the world - Kali Gandaki Valley, Central Nepal (4,404m deep)
• The deepest canyan in the world - Namcha Barwa canyon (5,909m deep)
  (The Grand Canyon of Arizona, USA is at 1,430m and the Colca Canyon, Peru is at 3,205m.)
• The largest river island in the world - Majuli, Assam , Eastern India
• Origin of two largest rivers - Brahmaputra and the Ganges
• The world's highest lake - Lake Tilicho, Central Nepal
• The world's second rainiest place - Cherapunji, Eastern India
• The world's only habitat of bird species- Spiny Babbler
• The coldest place outside Siberia - Drass in winter, Ladakh, Northwestern India
• The coldest points on earth - temperatures as low as -80 degrees Celsius
• World's largest area under snow and glaciers outside the polar regions.
• One of the most extensive biodiversity
• Home to the world's rarest plant - Lady's Slipper orchid
• One of the biggest elevation gradient producing steepest slopes and greatest relief : from 60m - 8,848m within 100 miles
• Largest number of high mountains in a confined space - Karakoram
  60 of them over 23,000ft (7,000m) culminating in K2
• The Himalaya-Ganges system -- one of the world's largest highland-lowland interactive systems. (Ives and Messerli)

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