Thursday, August 25, 2011

for mountain lover's..... Dhauladhar

The Dhauladhar range (lit. The White Range)[1] is a southern branch of the main Outer Himalayan chain of mountains. It rises spectacularly from the Indian plains to Himalayas that begin from near Ladakh and run all the way to Mount Everest and Kangchenjunga in Sikkim, pass through Himachal Pradesh they lie almost entirely in Himachal Pradesh. They are distinctive in their typical dark granite rocky formations with a remarkably steep rise culminating in sharp streaks of snow and ice at the top of their crested peaks. This distinctive profile is best seen from the Kangra Valley from where they seem to shoot up almost vertically.Several peaks both virgin and scaled have drawn mountaineers from all over the world.

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