A report on Brahmaputra River, Ganges and Kangchenjunga

Kangchenjunga and surrounding peaks at sunset from ISS, December 2019

Devprayag, confluence of Alaknanda (right) and Bhagirathi (left), and beginning of the Ganges proper.

Southwest (Yalung) face of Kangchenjunga seen from Nepal

The Himalayan headwaters of the Ganges River in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.

Kanchenjunga-north from base camp in Nepal

A view of sunset in the Brahmaputra from Dibrugarh

The Gandhi Setu Bridge across the Ganges in Patna, Bihar

Painting of Kanchinjínga as seen from the Singalila Ridge by Hermann Schlagintweit, 1855

Rivers of Bangladesh, including the Brahmaputra

A sailboat on the main distributory of the Ganges in Bangladesh, the Padma river.

The Ganges delta in a 2020 satellite image.

South face of Kangchenjunga seen from Goecha La, Sikkim at 4940 m

Rowing competition of Sualkuchi at Brahmaputra River

A 1908 map showing the course of the Ganges and its tributaries.

Kangchenjunga seen from Darjeeling War Memorial

The River Ganges at Kolkata, with Howrah Bridge in the background

A sign board on the last traversable road to Kangchenjunga

Brahmaputra River seen from a SPOT satellite

First ascent reunion of 1990– front (left to right): Neil Mather, John Angelo Jackson, Charles Evans and Joe Brown and rear (left to right): Tony Streather, Norman Hardie, George Band, and Professor John Clegg.

The Brahmaputra and its tributaries in northeastern India and Bangladesh

Hardinge Bridge, Bangladesh, crosses the Ganges-Padma River. It is one of the key sites for measuring streamflow and discharge on the lower Ganges.

James Rennell's 1776 map shows the Brahmaputra's flow before an earthquake on 2 April 1762 and the Teesta River flowing in three channels to the Ganga before a flood in 1787.

Chromolithograph, Indian woman floating lamps on the Ganges, by William Simpson, 1867

Kanchenjunga as seen from Gangtok, Sikkim

Silhouette of a fisherman on boat during sunset at Brahmaputra River

Descent of Ganga, painting by Raja Ravi Varma c. 1910

Preparations for cremations on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi], 1903. The dead are being bathed, wrapped in cloth, and covered with wood. The photograph has a caption, "Who dies in the waters of the Ganges obtains heaven."]

Kangchenjunga seen from Tetulia, Panchagarh, Northern Bangladesh.

An Aerial view of the Dhola–Sadiya Bridge

Women and children at a bathing ghat on the Ganges in Banares (Varanasi), 1885.

East face of Kangchenjunga, from near the Zemu Glacier, Sikkim

Ranaghat Bridge or Churni River Bridge on Brahmaputra River near Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh

Shiva, as Gangadhara, bearing the Descent of the Ganges, as the goddess Parvati, the sage Bhagiratha, and the bull Nandi look on (circa 1740).

View of Kangchenjunga as seen from Darjeeling

A procession of Akharas marching over a makeshift bridge over the Ganges River. Kumbh Mela at Allahabad, 2001.

North face of Kangchenjunga from Pang Pema, Nepal

Head works of the Ganges canal in Haridwar (1860). Photograph by Samuel Bourne.

The Ganges Canal highlighted in red stretching between its headworks off the Ganges River in Haridwar and its confluences with the Jumna (Yamuna) River in Etawah and with the Ganges in Cawnpore (now Kanpur).

A girl selling plastic containers in Haridwar for carrying Ganges water.

The catla (Catla catla) is one of the Indian carp species that support major fisheries in the Ganges

The threatened gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) is a large fish-eating crocodilian that is harmless to humans

The Gangetic dolphin in a sketch by Whymper and P. Smit, 1894.

People bathing and washing clothes in the Ganges in Varanasi.

In the vast Ganges Delta, it merges with the Ganges, popularly known as the Padma in Bangladesh, and becomes the Meghna and ultimately empties into the Bay of Bengal.

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It is then joined by the Jamuna, the lower stream of the Brahmaputra, and eventually the Meghna, forming the major estuary of the Ganges Delta, and emptying into the Bay of Bengal.

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Kangchenjunga (8,586 m) is the only peak above 8,000 m and hence is the highest point within the Brahmaputra basin.

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Kangchenjunga Main is the highest elevation of the Brahmaputra River basin, which forms part of the southeast Asian monsoon regime and is among the globally largest river basins.

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Kangchenjunga is one of six peaks above 8000 m located in the basin of the Koshi river, which is among the largest tributaries of the Ganges.

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The other peaks over 8,000m in the basin are Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Annapurna and Shishapangma.

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Himalayas

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The Himalayas, or Himalaya, are a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

The 6000 km journey of the India landmass (Indian Plate) before its collision with Asia (Eurasian Plate) about 40 to 50 million years ago

Some of the world's major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, and the Tsangpo–Brahmaputra, rise in the vicinity of the Himalayas, and their combined drainage basin is home to some 600 million people; 53 million people live in the Himalayas.

Many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism; the summits of several—Kangchenjunga (from the Indian side), Gangkhar Puensum, Machapuchare, Nanda Devi and Kailas in the Tibetan Transhimalaya—are off-limits to climbers.