Sunday, 30 December 2018

Karkoot a mountain in kashmir

Karkoot is a mountain in central kashmir's kangan tehsil in ganderbal district. the hight of this mountain is half of mount everst. the mountain is covered by snow almost 8 months of year there is a glacier behind this mountain. It is this mountain from which we can see almost whole kashmir region if you have a binocular with you than you will be able to see the view of whole srinagar from this mountain.
There are many birds and wild animals seen on this mountain
Birds like griffons, falcons, kestral, chough, accentors, eagles etc and animals like black bears, brown bear, musk deer, kashmir stag, etc are found on tis mountain.
More from wikipedia

Sirbal Peak is a mountain with a peak elevation[1]of 5,235 metres (17,175 ft), in Ganderbal district of Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, in the vicinity of Sonamarg. Sirbal Peak is part of the HimalayaRange, and is located between Sonamarg and Baltal. It lies 102 km northeast from Srinagar, 5 km from Sonamarg in the east. Sirbal Peak lies 6 km west of Zojila. It rises from a glacier 5 km ahead from Sonamarg on left side of NH 1D. The melt waters from the glacier add to the flow of Nallah Sindh.[2]