Text Box: Text Box: Himalayan Experience Treks and Expeditions (P) LTD A trekking agency that cares about fragile ecosystem and spends half of its profit for soil conservation and watershed management programs in Nepal Himalayas Choose our service for your travel, trekking needs in Nepal and save the Himalayan environment Text Box: Facts about Nepal: Area: 147181 Sq. KM, 0.3% of Asia and 0.03% of the total world area. Mountainous area: 80% of the total land area in Nepal. Altitude: 70m to 8850m. Located: 260 22’ 00” to 300 27’ 00” North latitude. 800 04’ 00” to 880 12’ 00” East longitude. Religion: Hindu and Buddhism. Current population: 22367048 male and female as of year 1999. Expansion: 885 KM average length, 193 KM average width. Text Box: To learn more about the natural history of Nepal Himalayas please contact Dr.Tank Ojha Managing Director Himalayan Experience Treks & Expeditions (P) LTD Mhepi 205, P. O. Box 5674 Kathmandu 3, NEPAL Phone: 977-1- 4356255, Fax: 977-1-4351817 Email: luju@wlink.com.np Text Box: Himalayan Experience treks and expedition (P) LTD cares about the Himalayan environment and spends a major chunk of its profit for land degradation studies, soil and watershed conservation projects, climate change adaptation, and environmental awareness program in Nepal Himalayas Text Box: About Nepal After the collision of Indian and Asian plate the high mountain chain (Himalayas) have been formed. The collision took place between 55-60 million years ago. Before collision the northern margin of Indian plate was deposited by a shallow marine sedimentary sequence of early Paleozoic Age (500 million years old). After the collision those sedimentary rocks once deposited into the ocean, cap some of the best-known peaks of present day Himalayas like Everest. Since the collision of India and Asia began nearly 2200 KM of Indian plate have been penetrated into Tibet. Those giant tectonic events conspired the shortening of Indian lithospheric plate and fold-thrust deformation to give rise the giant mountains like Everest, Annapurna, Kanchanjunga, Karakoram, similarly many intermontane valleys and rolling plateaus like Kathmandu valley, Kashmir valley, Kullu valley, Pokhara valley and the Khaptad plateau etc. Based on their structural layout, the Himalayas are famous not only because of its height and extent but also because of its rare faunal and floral life, becoming important place for naturalist and tourists to see the variation on biota in a topographic profile within a little variation on latitude. Text Box: NEPAL boosts the central part of Himalaya with many highest peaks of the world, many beautiful valleys, rivers etc. Moreover Nepal is unspoiled, untainted by the 20th century – a reflection of its own past. Hollywood has discovered Nepal, however Brad Pitt’s “Seven Years in Tibet “ and Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book, “Into thin Air”, have brought this courageous land into sharp focus. Both deal with westerners trying to cope with the rigors of the land, and the dangerous, primitive realities that the Nepalese accept daily something those Europeans and Americans can scarcely understand. Many Europeans and Americans have feeling that there are only high mountains in Nepal or touring and trekking in Nepal is only for physically strong people. Text Box: That is not true. Nepal has high mountains like Everest, Nepal has beautiful intermontane valleys like Pokhara and Kathmandu (with the average altitude of 800 to 1300 meters). Nepal has flat region (elevation 70 to 223m) with thick Natural tropical forest, which is being the shelter of many rare animals including elusive Royal Bengal Tiger and one horned rare black rhinoceros. Though Nepal is a small country but one can experience all natural and cultural diversities here. More than two dozen cultures inhabit this land. Nepal affords unique opportunities to travelers who may wish to turn back the pages of time.