About Mt Everest Tourist Place
At 29,028 feet Mt. Everest is the world's highest peak. It stands between Nepal and India. In Nepalese it called 'Sagarmatha' and 'Chomo lungma' in Tibetan which means 'The Goddess of the wind'. It is named after Sir George Everest. Surveyor General of India
from 1830-43.
According to the geologists about fifty million years ago, the collision of the vast tectonic plates beneath the earths crust, pushed up the Himalayas. The Himalayas are covered with snow and ice, forming glaciers. These are the sources of the mighty rivers like River Indus, River Brahmaputra and River Sutlej.
On 29 May 1953, sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to stand on top of the worlds highest mountain also called as, "The roof of the world". Mt. Everest remains a challenge to mountaineers all over the world.
Mountain Fuji Tourist Place
Japan's Mt. Fuji is a volcanic mountain of breath taking beauty. Though it is a very high mountain (12388ft). It is impressive because of its proportions. the base is three times as wide as it is high, so the mountain appears to rise gradually. Three fourths of the mountain remains capped in snow for 8-9 months. At the foot of Mt. Fuji is the Lake Hakone or the lake of the reeds. The peak is reflected upside of the reeds. The peak is reflected upside down, forming the famous, "double Fuji".
Fuji is a dormant volcano. It is sacred to the Japanese and worshipped. A primeval forest called, 'the sea of trees' has grown on the lava flow of its last eruptions in 1707 and 1717.
Mt Kilimanjaro Tourist Place
Mt. Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain, in northern Tanzania touching the border of Kenya. It stands majestically tall at 19340 feet. It is a volcanic massif and stretches east to west - for 50 miles. It includes three main volcanoes, now extinct. The youngest and tallest Kibo is joined by a seven mile joint (or saddle) to Mawenzi. The third volcano Shira is a ridge shaped remnant of an earlier crater.
Kibo is a snow capped mountain and has a vast (1 mile across) crater which is 984 feet deep. On the rim of the crater is the 'Uhuru point' or 'Summit of all Africa'. The crater has an ash cone showing signs of residual volcanic activity. Mawenzi is jagged and eroded.
The slopes of Kilimanjaro are fertile and farmed by the chagga people.
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