Nepal holds a longer, higher stretch of the earth's crust than any other country — eight of the world's fourteen 8,000 metre peaks, and more than 1,300 summits above 6,000 metres. This is the field guide.
The Himalaya forms a 2,400 km arc between the Indian plate and Tibetan plateau, and Nepal occupies its highest 800 km — the section where the crust has been pushed furthest into the sky. Everest, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and Annapurna I all sit on Nepali soil or its border, out of only fourteen mountains on Earth above 8,000 metres.
Below the giants, seven major sub-ranges run roughly east to west — each with its own massif, glacier system, and climbing history, listed alongside the country's five physiographic bands from the Terai plains to the Tibetan rain-shadow.
Every mountain on Earth above 8,000m sits in the Himalaya or Karakoram. Eight of the fourteen rise on Nepal's border with Tibet.
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Peaks best known not for raw height but for how they dominate a valley, a skyline, or a photograph.
Nepal west to east, and the massif each region is built around.