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Art Number 1018
Artwork Title Into the Mountains - 2
Artist Name Chitra Vaidya
Medium Watercolour on Paper
Size 21 x 29 inches (53.34 x 73.66 cm)
Other details Limited Edition Prints available
Price Price on Request
Information This watercolour painting by artist Chitra Vaidya shows the beauty that Sangla valley is known for with river Baspa, clear blue skies and the mountain ranges of Himalayas. View of village Chitkul on the return walk from Nagashti to Chitkul. Nagashti has the last outpost of ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police) in this region which has a border with Tibet.

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over fifty mountains exceeding 7,200 m (23,600 ft) in elevation, including ten of the fourteen 8,000-metre peaks. The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush ranges. To the north, the chain is separated from the Tibetan Plateau by a 50–60 km (31–37 mi) wide tectonic valley called the Indus-Tsangpo Suture. Towards the south the arc of the Himalaya is ringed by the very low Indo-Gangetic Plain. Some of the world's major rivers – the Indus, the Ganges and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra – rise in the Himalayas. The Himalayas have a profound effect on the climate of the region, helping to keep the monsoon rains on the Indian plain and limiting rainfall on the Tibetan plateau. The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of the Indian subcontinent, with many Himalayan peaks considered sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism.

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