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Nanda Devi

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Nanda Devi

Peak in the Himalayas, Uttarakhand, northern India; height 7,817 m/25,645 ft. Until Kanchenjunga was absorbed into India, Nanda Devi was the country's highest mountain.



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And their latest ' platform' was Uttarakhand's Nanda Devi -- the second highest peak in India.
The Wallasey-born climber Bill Tilman and his colleague, Noel Odell, stood on the summit on Nanda Devi in 1936, then the highest mountain ever to have been climbed.
With one half enclosed by the riveting line-up of Himalayan peaks such as Nanda Devi, Trishul, Kedar and Panchchuli, and the other by hills of conifer and rhododendron, Ranikhet seems so blissfully created by God and then the British, who sparingly filled it with cottages and churches.
 
 
 
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