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| In Sanskrit "Hima'' means ice and snow and "Laya" means place. So Himalaya means "place of ice and snow". There are 14 peaks that are 8000 meters high in the mountain range extending over 3000 kilometers east-west. Among them 8 lie in Nepal. Let's arrange these mountains which are also called the place of the God in highest order. |
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- Everest (Sagarmatha in Nepali) - 8848 meter,
- Kanchanjanga - 8586 meter,
- Lhotse - 8516 meter,
- Makalu - 8463 meter,
- Dhaulagiri - 8167 meter,
- Manaslu - 8163 meter,
- Cho Oyu - 8153 meter,
- Annapurna - 8091 meter.
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