Perspectives from the Himalaya

Formation of the Himalaya from a Continental Collision

She is a Goddess stirring from her sleep, Earth at her most dramatic. The Himalaya rose from the deep collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates, a restless Goddess whose body broke through the skin of the earth some fifty million years ago. Her spine now stretches more than 2400 kilometres across India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet and Pakistan, with her arms brushing into Afghanistan and…