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Regions

Organised the way nature is — by mountain system, then section and region, west → east. Country is an overlay, not the skeleton.

Karakoram

A distinct range north of the Indus — not part of the Himalaya.

Trans-Himalaya

Ladakh & Zanskar ranges, north of the Indus–Tsangpo suture — geologically distinct from the Great Himalaya.

Himalaya

Indo-Myanmar & Patkai

The eastern syntaxis where the Himalaya bends into the Hengduan and the Indo-Myanmar ranges.

Himopedia documents the great ranges of High Asia — the Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Trans-Himalaya — kept distinct as they are in fact, and presented together as they are lived. The same structure is built to hold other ranges in time.