Mountains & Plateaus
Geography · पर्वत और पठार · 15 facts
Mount Everest (8,849 m) = highest peak, Nepal-Tibet border
K2 (8,611 m) = second highest, Karakoram range, deadliest mountain
Kangchenjunga (8,586 m) = highest in India (Sikkim)
Himalayas = youngest fold mountains, three ranges: Himadri, Himachal, Shiwalik
Aravalli = oldest fold mountain in India and world
Tibetan Plateau = highest plateau (Roof of the World, 4,500 m avg.)
Deccan Plateau = India's largest plateau, mineral-rich
Chota Nagpur Plateau (Jharkhand) = 'Ruhr of India' for minerals
Karakoram Pass = highest pass in India (Ladakh)
Nathu La (Sikkim) = India-China border trade pass, reopened 2006
Fold mountains: Himalayas, Andes (longest), Alps, Rockies, Atlas
Andes = longest mountain range in the world (7,000 km)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (Africa) is a volcanic mountain, not fold
Vindhya and Satpura are block mountains in India
Doon valleys (like Dehradun) lie between Shiwaliks and Lesser Himalayas