People Living In West Bengal’s Siliguri Can Now See The World’s Third Highest Peak

With people locked up inside their houses because of the COVID-19 and the nationwide lockdown, nature has since been flourishing. From wild animals wandering around to pollution levels declining drastically, it seems like the lockdown has been in favor of the environment.

Twitter user @mundhrashish recently posted on his account a picture of the world’s third-highest mountain called Kangchenjunga or Kanchenjunga. In his post, Mundra mentioned that he could clearly see the mountain from his house in Siliguri. The mountain looked absolutely mesmerizing.

Twitter users have been reacting positively to the post.

In fact, thanks to the cleaner environment and clearer skies, the Duahladhar range in Himachal Pradesh, had become visible to people living in Jalandhar, Punjab after almost 30 years. Jalandhar is 200km away from the range.

It isn’t common for people living in Uttar Pradesh to wake up one day to the view of the Himalayan Range. But it did happen recently. Ramesh Pandey IFS shared on his Twitter pictures showing snow-covered peaks of Himalaya visible from Saharanpur, an Uttar Pradesh city. The pictures have soon become viral on the Internet.

With the decline in air pollution levels, different mountain ranges have become visible from places that are far away.

Thanks to the nationwide lockdown, people living in Srinagar can see the Pir Panjal range. The photos are from journalist Waseem Andrabi.

A report suggests that every year, many Indian cities’ alarming levels of air pollution are the result of aerosols from man-made sources. Aerosols are tiny liquid and solid particles that are trapped in the air. These particles reduce visibility as well as damaging the human heart and lungs.

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