Everest Vs Himalaya

People might wonder some basic geography of Mount Everest. The first aspect of the geography of mount everest is the elevation. First of all it is the talled above ground mountain with a whopping elevation of 29,035 said Rosenberg. Mooney said that some glaciers are melting up to 8,850 meters up witch is equal to 29,035 feet up. At Everest's highest point, you are breathing in a third of the amount of oxygen you would normally breathe due to the atmospheric pressure (Bromwich).

“Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed” (14)

The land rose up and created a precipitous eastern edge of the batholith and a gentle western edge. 10 million years ago, uplift, which is the vertical rise of Earth’s surface due to natural causes, started to occur and accelerated quickly. Soon, the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range that we know today towered 14,000 feet in elevation. Throughout uplift, cracks formed in the granite of the mountains. They formed due to the pressure that came with the uplift. The erosion that stripped away most of the overlying rocks caused the remaining rock to expand and crack. These cracks are still forming today and they provide a template for future erosion.

Mount Everest, part of the Himalayan mountain range, is the highest mountain in the world with an elevation of 29,029 feet.

The Appalachian Mountains were formed an estimated 480 million years ago, being one of the first plate collisions constructing the supercontinent Pangea. During the Paleozoic Era, the region was submerged, layers of sediment and carbonate rock began to form on top of the already submerging sea bottom. In the Ordovician Period, the Appalachian passive margin evolved into a plate boundary when another plate collided with and sank the North American plate, creating the Appalachians. The Mountains continued to form as volcanoes grew, plate collisions, all while the supercontinent formed. Pangea began its separation 220 million years ago, halting the creation of many mountain ranges. The Appalachian Mountains had almost flattened completely out,

God revealed to me one of the greatest truths in life. The only way, scientifically speaking, for a mountain to move, is by means of an earthquake, and the bigger a movement you want, the more catastrophic the earthquake. Everything that anyone has built around or near that mountain will crash down in an intense fury, but by doing so it sets up area for you to build something greater than what was there before. Just like when a forest fire happens, it burns all the trees and destroys hundreds of thousands of years of hard work, but also creates fertile grounds for new life to spring up, eliminating all the disease that was spreading in the

For comparison, the peak of Everest, in the Himalayas, is 29,029 feet; Matterhorn, in the Pennine Alps on the Switzerland-Italy border, reaches 14,692 feet; and Eiger peaks at 13,025 feet in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.

In ancient China, the geography consisted of natural barriers including oceans and vast mountains. The mountains have always been very hard to climb over, so you’d have to find a way through them, and even that was hard. The Himalayas helped to protect the early people who settled in China from invasion. The mountains even isolated China from the rest of the world. If it weren’t for the man-made borders and lucky geography, China might not have been as successful as they are. Now, these mountains weren’t

Nepal is situated on the Himalayan arc where the Indian plate subducts the Eurasian plate at a convergence rate of ~20 mm yr-1 (Goda and Jibson., 2015). Nepal is classified as a less developed country where landsliding severely stunts its development (Petley et al., 2006).

I know that mountains are created from plate tectonics. Convergent plates are made out of the lithosphere. The lithosphere is the rocky outer part of Earth containing the crust (the thin layer of rock under the land) and the mantle (a layer of mostly silicate rock that is directly under the crust). Convergent plates are tectonic plates that collide and scrape against each other to form geological features such as mountains and volcanoes. Mountains and volcanoes form when one convergent plate slides under another one, causing a subduction zone. A subduction zone is a geological process that takes place at a convergent plate boundary. One plate moves under the other and is forced to sink because of the gravity in the mantle. When this happens, molten rock (lava) is forced to the surface. This causes volcanoes to form.

The Himalayas is located at the borders of India, Nepal, and Bhutan, which is in western China. The highest point in the world is Mt. Everest, which is located in the Himalayas. Several rivers run through the Himalayas including the Indus and Brahmaputra river.

Mount Everest is by far the hardest mountain to climb. Not only is it the hardest mountain to climb but it is also the tallest mountain to climb. Mount Everest is located in Asia and about two hundred people climb it each year. McKinley mountain is located in the United States and is the third tallest mountain to climb. About seven hundred people climb it each year. McKinley seems to be an easier mountain to climb due to more people able to climb it and less of an elevation. This concludes that Mount Everest is the most difficult mountain to climb in the world.

Mount Everest is commonly know as the highest mountain on earth located in Nepal and Tibet in the Mahalangur mountain range. With a peak of 8,848 meters or 29,029 feet above sea level, Mount Everest is the location of the international border between China and Nepal neighboring with peaks such as Lhoste, Nuptse and Changtse.

Crustal shortening is the primary result of a continent-continent collision in the orogenic thrust belts. Several techniques have been applied to understand the shortening rates in active collisional belts like the Himalayas. These estimates have been derived by Global Positioning System (GPS) for shorter timescales and balanced cross sections for longer time scales (Long et al., 2012). The preliminary studies conducted in the eastern Himalayas using GPS states that modern shortening rates are in the order of ~15-20 mm/yr to 20-12 mm/yr (Bilhan et al., 1997; Larson et al., 1999; Banerjee and Burgmann, 2002; Zhang et al., 2004). Using balanced cross section techniques DeCelles et al., (2002) and Long et al., (2011b) estimated that close to 400-670 km of crustal shortening has been accommodated in eastern thrust belt during 23-25 Ma range, giving the shortening rate of 16-29 mm/yr. Both of these techniques provides shortening rates that are quite similar and shows the motion along basal dècollement have been constant through time (Herman et al., 2010).

The Siwalik hills are known for their steep slopes, and erosion is prevalent here due to its weak bedrock. Its elevation is from 200-1500 meters, and it has a moist subtropical climate, with average temperatures around twenty-five degrees Celsius (Agrawala, 11). The Middle Mountains are characterized by their rocky soil, and there are some conifer forests here. The elevation ranges from 1,000 to 2,5000 meters, and it has a generally temperate climate, with an average temperature of twenty degrees Celsius (Agrawala, 11). The High Mountains, which include the Main Himalayas and the Inner Himalayan Valleys, have soil that does not typically weather, and its altitude ranges from 2,200 to 4,000 meters. The temperature is slightly colder here, ranging from cool to sub-alpine with temperatures between ten and fifteen degrees Celsius (Agrawala, 11). The final region is the High Himalayan region, where there is significant physical weathering and stony soils abound. The altitudes of the mountain ranges are all over 4,000 meters, and its climate varies from alpine to arctic, with temperatures under five degrees Celsius (Agrawala, 11).