Himalayas

: This article page is about the Himalayas in Sanctuary. For category page, see :Category:Himalayas.
The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it is also the name of a massive mountain system that includes the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and other, lesser, ranges that extend out from the Pamir Knot.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas
== History ==
=== Hindu Kush ===
The Hindu Kush (meaning Hindu-Killer) is a 500 mile-long (800 kilometer) mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and western Afghanistan into northwestern Pakistan and far southeastern Tajikistan. The range forms the western section of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region (HKH); to the north, near its northeastern end, the Hindu Kush buttresses the Pamir Mountains near the point where the borders of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, after which it runs southwest through Pakistan and into Afghanistan near their border. The eastern end of the Hindu Kush in the north merges with the Karakoram Range. Towards its southern end, it connects with the White Mountains near the Kabul River. It divides the valley of the Amu Darya (the ancient Oxus) to the north from the Indus River valley to the south.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Kush
==== Tirich Mir ====
The range has numerous high snow-capped peaks, with the highest point being Tirich Mir (or Terichmir) at 25,289 feet (7,708 meters) in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirich_Mir
	:A freight plane chartered by the Sanctuary Network (carrying Helen Magnus, Will Zimmerman, Sylvio Rudd, and Allison Grant) crashed into the central Hindu Kush (a sub-range of the Himalayas) while transporting a recently captured migoi to the New Delhi Sanctuary in India. Hindu Kush translates to "Slayer of Hindus".
== References ==
Category:Himalayas