The highest mountain range on Earth, the Himalayas stretch in a crescent shape across Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.

The Himalayas were formed around 50 million years ago when tectonic plate activity caused present-day India to collide into Tibet. The range is home to nine of the world's 10 tallest mountains, including Mount Everest. This colossal, 29,032-foot-high peak is named after British surveyor Sir George Everest. Another Brit, Sir Edmund Hilary, became the first documented person to reach the summit in 1953, alongside Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay. Outside of Antarctica and the Arctic, the Himalayas possess the planet's largest deposits of ice and snow. The range shelters some 15,000 glaciers, including the 47-mile-long Siachen Glacier in India. It's also the source of three major rivers: the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra.

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