Trekking in Indian himalayas

The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayas comes from Sanskrit word Himalaya,meaning "the abode of snow" (from hima "snow", and ālaya "abode").

The Himalayas stretch across six nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The home of several high peaks (all fourteen 8000-ers) in the world, the Himalayan range covers an area of 2400 km from Nanga Parbat in the west to Namche Barwa in the east. The main rivers of mountain chain are the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. Besides these three there are Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, the five sisters of the valley. They are the source of three of the world's major river systems, the Indus basin, the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin and the Yangtze basin. Approximately 2.4 billion people live in the drainage basin of these Himalayan rivers. From west to east,the Himalayas run from the Indus valley to the Brahmaputra valley, thereby forming an arc 2,400 km long, which varies in width from 400 km in the western Kashmir-Xinjiang region to 150 km in the eastern Tibet-Arunachal Pradesh region. The Himalayan chain consists of three parallel ranges, with the northern-most range known as the Great or Inner Himalayas.

Trekking in Himalayas There are difficult as well as easy treks, long as well as short.