File:Nanda devi from a hill above Milam.jpg

English: (Translated from German via Google Translate) The mountain ridge rising north behind Milam on the eastern edge of the Milam glacier is called Panchakuri. Its free location allows a comprehensive view of the high mountains of Kumaon. The legendary Nanda Devi appears most remarkable from its height in the southwest, whose 7,826 m (25,660') high rugged peak is connected to the very similarly shaped Nanda Kot by a vertical rock face; Keep in mind that the difference in height between the two peaks, which is so small in the picture, is no less than 390.7 m (1281'), as Nanda Kot is 7435.6 m (24379') high! This wonderful, enormous double peak is probably the most sublime mountain structure in the world.

According to the mountain dwellers, Siwa, the Hindu god intent on destruction, sits enthroned on this majestic mountain, together with his feared wife Kali or Parbati, whose surnames: Devi and Nanda gave the mountain a name that corresponds to its meaning: they only dare to venture with trembling and hesitation Native to the snow-covered parts of the mountains in order not to encounter this goddess of terror, whom they imagine as a black fury smeared with blood, with a hideous physiognomy, with a chain of human skulls around her neck and surrounded by poisonous snakes, while the god Siwa, adorned with human bones, is said to walk from mountain to mountain, intoxicated and roaring. Every stone fall, every avalanche is viewed as an expression of indignation by these deities, who are angry about the intrusion of humans into the sacred snowy area. In the picture you can clearly see the separation of the ridges that project towards the Milam glacier, whose glaciers drain their water to the mighty wide outlet of the Milam glacier, visible below as a narrow silver thread.

(The author, I believe mislabeled Nanda Devi east as Nanda Kot, or the names were different back then.)