Annapurna I 8091m Left and Machhapuchre 4090m Right.
Annapurna Range
Himalayan mountain range - I n south-central Asia, the ongoing collision between the Indian Plate and the Tibetian plate has raised up the world's most mountainous area, the Himalayan orogenic belt. The area began rising in the last 50 million years ago and continues to rise at about 5 mm a year as the collision continues. Since both plates were covered with lightweight continental crust, which tends to float on top of the heavier mantle layer, crust from both plates was crumpled together. In addition, the ocean floor between the two moving continents was swept up and stacked between them. The top of Mount Everest itself is sedimentary rock from the ocean's bottom.

The Himalayan mountain range contains the world's greatest accumulation of ice outside the Arctic and Antarctic. The world’s hundred tallest peaks are nearly all in the Himalayas, Karakoram, Pamirs, or the Hindu Kush. (A few exceptions are also in southern Asia, in China's Hengduan Mountains and Kunlun Shan.) The world's fourteen 8000-meter peaks are all in the Himalayas proper or the Karakoram.

The Himalayan mountain range extend over 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from the Indus Valley in the west to the Brahmaputra Valley in the east. They are between 100 and 250 kilometres wide. Himalaya range from the Indus River in Pakistan across northern India, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan.
Entities the range within includes Pakistan, China, India, Nepal, and Tibet. The world's highest peak, Mount Everest, and other "near−highest" peaks are part of the Greater Himalayas range.
The Himalayan mountain range (meaning "home of snow"), stretching from Pakistan to Bhutan, separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The world's highest peak, Mount Everest, at 29,029 feet, is in the Himalayas, as are scores of massive, beautiful, dangerous peaks climbers have given their lives to ascend. Their snowfields supply great rivers: the Ganges, the Indus, and the Brahmaputra.
Machhapuchhre & Pokhara

Top Mountain Range in the world

SL No. Name Location AreaHighest peaks
1 Himalayan Ranges Asia            2400km                 Mt. Everest 8848m
2 Karakoram Ranges Asia 500km K2 8611M
3 Hindu Kush RangesAsia 950Km Tirich Mir 7708M
4 Pamir ranges Asia 300Km Ismoil Somoni Peak7495m
5 Tien Shan Asia 1300Km  Jengish Chokusu 7439m
6 Andes South America  7000Km Aconcagua 6961m
7 Alaska Range North America 650KmMount Mckinley 6194m
8 The Caucasus range Europ/Asia1100kmMount Elbrus 5642M
9 Alps Europe 1200kmMont Blanc 4810m
10 Transantarctic range Antarctica 3500kmMount Kirkpatrick 4528
11 Rockies North America 4800kmMount Elbert 4401m
12 Great Dividing Range Australia 3500kmMount Kosciuszko 2228m
13 Urals Asia/Europe 2500kmMount Narodnaya 1895m


Fourteen 8000 meter peaks 

SL No. Name Height Range NameCountry
1 Mt. Everest 8848.86m          Mahalangur range  Nepal/China
2 Mt K2 8611m Karakoram range Pakistan/China
3 Mt. Kanchanjungha8586m Kanchanjungha Nepal/India
4 Mt. Lhotse 8516m Mahalangur range Nepal
5 Mt. Makalu 8485m Makalu range Nepal
6 Mt. Cho oyu 8201m Mahlangur range Nepal
7 Mt. Dhaulagiri  8167m Dhaulagiri range Nepal
8 Mt. Manaslu 8163m Manaslu range Nepal
9 Mt. Nanga parpat 8126 Central Pakistan
10 Mt. Annapurna I 8091m Annapurna range Nepal
11 Mt. Gasherbrum I 8080m Karakoram range Pakistan
12 Mt. Broad peak 8051m Karakoram range Pakistan
13 Mt. Gasherbrum II8034m Karakoram range Pakistan
14 Mt. Shishapangma 8027m Jugal China


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