Mansiri Himal is a small, high subrange of the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ...

in north-central

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

, about northwest of

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. The

Marsyangdi The Marshyangdi (or Marsyangdi) (Nepali: , marśyāṅdī) is a mountain river in Nepal. Its length is about 150 kilometres. The Marshyangdi begins at the confluence of two mountain rivers, the Khangsar Khola and Jharsang Khola, northwest of ...

River separates the Mansiri from the

Annapurna Annapurna (; ne, अन्नपूर्ण) is a mountain situated in the Annapurna mountain range of Gandaki Province, north-central Nepal. It is the tenth highest mountain in the world at above sea level and is well known for the difficu ...

s to the southwest, then an upper tributary ''Dudh Khola'' separates ''Peri Himal'' to the northwest. On the east side, the ''Burhi (Budhi) Gandaki'' separates the Mansiri from ''

Ganesh Himal __NOTOC__ Ganesh Himāl ( ne, गणेश हिमाल) is a sub-range of the Himalayas located mostly in north-central Nepal, but some peaks lie on the border with Tibet. The Trisuli Gandaki valley on the east separates it from the Langtang Hi ...

'', ''Serang'' or ''Sringi Himal'' and ''Kutang Himal''. All these streams are tributary to the Gandaki. The Mansiri range is also known as ''Manaslu Himal'' or the ''Gurkha Massif''. It contains these peaks among Earth's twenty highest (with at least 500m ''

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Manaslu Manaslu ( ne, मनास्लु, also known as Kutang; muh-NAA-slu) is the eighth-highest mountain in the world at above sea level. It is in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal. The name Mana ...

, , 8th highest *

Himalchuli Himalchuli (also sometimes written as two words, Himal Chuli) is the second-highest mountain in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, and the 18th-highest mountain in the world (using a cutoff of 500 meters prominence, or re-ascen ...

, , 18th highest * Ngadi Chuli, , 20th highest The Mansiri range is notable for its local relief. It rises above the Marsyangdi valley floor in less than horizontal distance.

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