Panoramic view from Kobang in southwestern direction down the Kali Gandaki Valley. The east face of Dhaulagiri appears in the right background of the photograph, whereas the summit of this eight-thousander peak is not visible. It rises more than 5600 m above the view point (approx. 2550 m asl.).

Keywords

cultural landscape, eight-thousander, fluvial processes, fluvial sedimentation, glacial processes, high-mountain ecosystems, mountainscape, mountaintop, puna, snowscape, Zonobiome VII

Created

Wednesday 5 December 2012 by Martin Mergili in Asia / Nepal (8257 visits)