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Kanjiroba Himal

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The Kanjiroba Himal is an isolated part of the Himalaya range within Nepal, adjacent to the Tibetan border.

The region remained unmapped until the 1950s, when British explorer John Baird Tyson made the first of a series of expeditions to the area.[1]

Location

Kanjiroba Himal is within the cross-border Shey Phoksundo National Park, about 180 kilometres north-west of Pokhara.

Geology

The region is high mountains, cut into by glaciers and deep, precipitous river valleys.

Drainage

Settlement

Communications

Limited to the valleys, there are no practicable routes across the high mountains into Tibet

References

  1. ^ "John Tyson - obituary". Daily Telegraph. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.