Overall, the Himalayan mountain system is the world's highest, and is home to 10 of 14 of the world's highest peaks, theEight-thousanders, and more than 50 peaks over 7,000 metres (23,000 ft). TheKarakoram andHindu Kush are regarded as separate ranges whose peaks are not included in this table. In the table below sorting by coordinates sorts by longitude (i.e. West to East) and "HP" = High point.
Between the vale of Kashmir and theKargil district, and is the only western entrance to the highlands ofLadakh. The under constructionZoji-la Tunnel passes under it.
The principal pass in theSiwalik Hills, the southernmost and geologically youngest foothills running parallel to the main Himalayas, between theGangetic Plain andDoon valley in Uttarakhand.
Connecting Demchok and Chisumle villages, 230 km from Leh Town in Ladakh. Highest motorable road in the world. Stretching for 86 km, the temperature ranges from -10 °C to -20 °C. Oxygen level is 50% less than normal range.[10]
On theNepal-Tibet border at the upper end ofMustang. TheKali Gandaki Gorge (agraben),[11] transects the main Himalaya and Transhimalayan ranges. Kora La is the lowest pass through both ranges betweenK2 andEverest, but some 300 metres (980 ft) higher than Nathula and Jelepla passes further east between Sikkim and Tibet.
^Godin, L.; et al. (1999). Allison MacFarlane; Rasoul B. Sorkhabi;Jay Quade (eds.). "High strain zone in the hanging wall of the Annapurna detachment".Himalaya and Tibet: Mountain Roots to Mountain Tops (328). GSA: 201.
