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imalayas Home Geography & Travel Physical Geography of Land Mountains & Volcanoes Himalayas mountains, Asia Alternate titles: Himalaya By Barry C. Bishop See All • Edit History Top Questions Where are the Himalayas? How long are the Himalayas? What are the physical features of the Himalayas? Who drew the first known map of the Himalayas? What are the major rivers in the Himalayas? When was highest peak in the Himalayas and the world, Mount Everest, first successfully scaled? Summary Read a brief summary of this topic Himalayas, Nepali Himalaya, great mountain system of Asia forming a barrier between the Plateau of Tibet to the north and the alluvial plains of the Indian subcontinent to the south. The Himalayas include the highest mountains in the world, with more than 110 peaks rising to elevations of 24,000 feet (7,300 metres) or more above sea level. One of those peaks is Mount Everest (Tibetan: Chomolungma; Chinese: Qomolangma Feng; Nepali: Sagarmatha), the world’s highest, with an elevation of 29,032 feet (8,849 metres; see Researcher’s Note: Height of Mount Everest. The mountains’ high peaks rise into the zone of perpetual snow.