Ganesh Himāl is a sub-range of the

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located mostly in north-central

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, but some peaks lie on the border with

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. The Trisuli Gandaki valley on the east separates it from the Langtang Himal; the Budhi (Buri) Gandaki valley and the Shyar Khola valley on the west separate it from the Sringi Himal and the

Mansiri Himal Mansiri Himal is a small, high subrange of the Himalayas in north-central Nepal, about northwest of Kathmandu. The Marshyangdi River separates the Mansiri from the Annapurnas to the southwest, then an upper tributary the ''Dudh Khola'' separate ...

(home of

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, the nearest 8000m peak). The highest peak in the range is

Yangra Yangra (Ganesh I) is the highest peak of the Ganesh Himal, which is a subrange of the Himalayas. Although not an eight-thousander, 8,000 metre peak, and little visited, it enjoys great vertical relief over the nearby valleys. __NOTOC__ Location ...

with an elevation of . Three other peaks are over and fourteen others over . The name for the range comes from the Hindu deity

Ganesha Ganesha or Ganesh (, , ), also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped Deva (Hinduism), deities in the Hindu deities, Hindu pantheon and is the Supreme God in the Ganapatya sect. His depictions ...

, usually depicted in the form of an elephant. Names and elevations for this range differ from source to source; see the notes below the table. The least ambiguous way to refer to the different peaks would be "Ganesh NW", but this is not the standard practice in the literature for this range.

Highest peaks

Notes

# The names Ganesh II, Salasungo (Ganesh III), and Pabil (Ganesh IV) are from the FinnmapFinnmap topographic map of the Ganesh Himal, produced for the Government of Nepal. They do not agree with other, older sources such as Carter''

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'' 1989, p. 210. or Neate (which is derived from Carter). Ohmori attests the name "Lapsang Karbo" for the southeast peak, here called Salasungo. # Heights are from the Finnmap. # Coordinates have been derived from the Finnmap by Eberhard Jurgalski. # Prominence values (except for Yangra) have been derived from the Finnmap by Eberhard Jurgalski. For Yangra, the value is from peaklist.org. # Location Dhading

References

External links

Himalayan Index
(Corrected versions of SRTM data)

{{Authority control Mountain ranges of the Himalayas Mountain ranges of Nepal Mountain ranges of Tibet Mountains of the Bagmati Province