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What Is A Fold Mountain?

The northern borders of India, Nepal and Bhutan usually stick to the Ganges-Brahmanputra watershed, nonetheless the Himalaya extend north of this watershed. There are also outlying ranges rising out of the plateau northward to the Brahmaputra which are integrated with the Himalaya. This portion of the Himalaya is much less explored, normally tricky of access, and has many unclimbed peaks. It is a well known objective for mountaineers who hope to summit a single of the lots of 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies. This Banff mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector following the waterfall or “cascade” on the...