
The Digital Himalayan Encyclopedia
One range.
Countless ways of seeing it.
Peaks, passes, villages, rivers, glaciers, meadows and lakes — documented over years, interlinked into one living archive, and explored through the eyes of everyone who comes to the mountains.
- 2,014
- Entries documented
- 27
- Regions
- 130+
- Treks mapped
- 10
- Lenses
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Some of the great summits, documented and cross-checked.
8,611 mK2
🏔️ Peak · East Karakoram
K2, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at 8,849 metres (29,032 ft). It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltist…
Kanchenjunga
🏔️ Peak · Darjeeling Sikkim
Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit lies at 8,586 m (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas, the Kangchenjunga Himal, which is bounded in the west by the Tamur River, in the north by the Lhonak River an…
8,516 mLhotse
🏔️ Peak · Mahalangur
Lhotse is the fourth-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga. At an elevation of 8,516 metres (27,940 ft) above sea level, the main summit is on the border between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and th…
8,505 mYalung Kang
🏔️ Peak · Kanchenjunga
Yalung Kang (Nepali: यालुङ हिमाल, Yalung Himal in Nepali) is a 8,505 m high minor summit of the Kangchenjunga massif found in the Himalayan range.
8,462 mMakalu
🏔️ Peak · Mahalangur
Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain on Earth, with a summit at an elevation of 8,485 metres (27,838 ft) AMSL. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 km (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest, on the China–Nepal border. One of the eigh…
8,430 mLhotse middle
🏔️ Peak · Mahalangur
Lhotse Middle, is a subsidiary peak of 8,410 metres (27,590 ft) in elevation that sits in the middle of a ridge between its parent peak, the eight-thousander, Lhotse 8,516 metres (27,940 ft), and another subsidiary peak, Lhotse Shar 8,38…
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The Himalayan world, organised into the things that make it.

🏔️ Peaks
794 documented

🧭 Passes
123 documented

🏘️ Villages
117 documented
🌊 Rivers
89 documented

🧊 Glaciers
415 documented

💧 Lakes
222 documented
🌿 Meadows
25 documented

🌲 Protected Areas
87 documented
♨️ Hot Springs
1 documented

🌄 Viewpoints
2 documented

🦌 Biodiversity
42 documented
🛕 Temples
20 documented
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☸️ Monasteries
25 documented
🎉 Festivals
21 documented
🍲 Cuisine
24 documented
👥 Tribes & Communities
7 documented
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