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Broad Peak
AlsoknownasK3&FalchanKangri,isthe
12thhighestmountainintheworld&ispart
oftheKarakoramrangeinBaltistanonthe
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borderofPakistanandChina
Godwin Austen
AlsoknownasK3,isthe2ndhighestmountain
intheworld&islocatedonKarakoramrange
ontheborderbetweenBaltistan,Pakistan,
andChina
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Gasher Brum
aremotegroupofpeakslocatedatthe
northeasternendoftheBaltoroGlacierin
theKarakoramrangeontheborderofChina
andtheGilgitBaltistan,Pakistan
Nanga Parbat
9thhighestmountainintheworld,Located
inJ&K,formswesternanchorofthe
HimalayasaroundwhichtheIndusriverskirts
beforeitdebouchesintotheplainsof
Pakistan
Saltoro Kangri
HighestpeakoftheSaltoroMountains,
LocatedinJ&K,betterknownasthe
SaltoroRange,whichisapartofthe
Karakoram
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Nun Kun
Nunkunmountainmassifcomprisesapairof
Himalayanpeaks:Nun,7,135mandits
neighborpeakKun,7,077m.Nunisthe
highestpeakinthepartoftheHimalayan
rangelyingontheIndiansideoftheLineof
ControlinJammuandKashmir(Highestof
ZaskarRange)
Badrinath
BadrinathisaholytowninChamoli
,Uttarakhand.Itisthemostimportantof
thefoursitesinIndiasChar
Dhampilgrimageandgetsitsnamefromthe
HolytempleofBadrinath(LordVishnu)
Nanda Devi
2ndhighestmountaininIndiaandthehighest
entirelywithinthecountry(Kangchenjunga
beingontheborderofIndiaandNepal)
locatedinChamoli,Uttarakhand
Kanchenjunga
LocatedineasternNepalandSikkim,Itis
thehighestmountaininIndia&3rd
highestmountainintheworld(limitedin
thewestbytheTamurRiverandintheeast
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bytheTeestaRiver)
Nokrek
HighestpointoftheGaroHills(Meghalaya)
Saramati
apeakrisingabovethesurroundingpeaksat
themountainousborderofNagaland,India
andBurma(HighestofNagaHills)
Blue Peak
AlsoknownasPhawngpui,isthehighest
mountainpeakinMizoramnearMyanmarborder
inthesoutheastregionofMizoram
Gurushikhar
GuruShikhar,Mt.Abu,Rajasthan,isthe
highestpointoftheAravalliRange
Gorakhnath
GorakhnathisthehighestpeakoftheGirnar
mountain,Gujrat
Dhupgarh
HighestpointofSatpuraRange,Locatedin
Pachmarhi,MadhyaPradesh,Alsothehighest
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pointofMadhyaPradesh
Parasnath
Alsoknownas,Shikharjimeansvenerable
peak.,SammedikharorSammetShikhar,means
thepeakofconcentrationbecauseitisa
placewheretwentyof24
Tirthankarasattainedastate
ofmokathroughmeditativeconcentration.
ThewordParasnathisderivedfromPrva,
the23Tirthankaratoattainnirvanaatthe
site(Highestpeakofchhotanagpurplateau,
LocatedinJharkhand,isaJainpilgrimage
site)
Malayagiri
amountainpeakintheMalayagirihills
locatedinOrissa,notthehighestmountain
inOrissa;Mahendragiriistallerat1501
meters.
Nimgiri
amountainpeaklocatedinOrissa,2nd
highestmountaininOrissa
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Mahendragiri
HighestmountainpeakofOrissa,2ndhighest
ofEasternGhats,nextonlytoJindhagada
Peak,AndhraPradesh
Kalsubai
HighestpeakinMaharashtralocatedonits
border,&apartofSahyadris
Mahabaleshwar
ahillstationatMaharashtra,locatedin
WesternGhatsrange
Brahmagiri
amountainrangeinWesternGhats,locatedon
theborderofKarnataka,originofriver
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Kaveri
Kundremukh
amountainrangelocatedinKarnataka,
literallymeansHorseFace.
Doddabetta
HighestpointinTamilNadu,
nearUdhagamandalam(NilgiriHills)&second
highestpeakintheWesternGhatsonlynext
toAnamudi
Anaimudi
LocatedinKerala,Itisthehighestpeakin
WesternGhatsandinSouthIndia
Agasthyamalai
alsocalledasAshambuHills,lieatthe
extremesouthernendofWesternGhats,
straddlebothsidesinKeralaandinTamil
Nadu
Saddle Peak
locatedonNorthAndamanIslandinAndaman
Islands,isthehighestpointofthe
archipelagointheBayofBengal
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Mount Hariet
thirdhighestpeakintheAndamanandNicobar
archipelagonexttoSaddlepeak((Highestof
Andman)andMountThullier(Highestof
Nicobar)
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Agasthyamalai,Anaimudi,Badrinath,BluePeak,
Brahmagiri,BroadPeak,Dhupgarh,Doddabetta,GasherBrum,Godwin
Austen,Gorakhnath,Gurushikhar,ImportantMountainPeaksof
India,Kalsubai,Kanchenjunga,Kundremukh,Mahabaleshwar,
Mahendragiri,Malayagiri,MountHariet,NandaDevi,NangaParbat,
Nimgiri,Nokrek,NunKun,Parasnath,SaddlePeak,SaltoroKangri,
Saramati
ImportantGlaciers
forIndia,Glaciers
inIndia
ImportantpassesinIndia
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