Soaring, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Snow" title="Snow">snow</a>-capped peaks and ridges of the eastern Himalaya Mountains create an irregular <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:White" title="Category:White">white</a>-on-<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Red" title="Category:Red">red</a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Patchwork" title="Category:Patchwork">patchwork</a> between major rivers in south-western <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/China" class="mw-redirect" title="China">China</a>. The Himalaya are made up of three parallel mountain ranges that together extend more than 2,900 kilometres.
USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
2004-04-25
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