George Washington was a leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and was the first to become U.S. president.
The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau to the north have risen very rapidly. In just 50 million years, peaks such as Mt. Everest have risen to heights of more than 9 km. The impinging of the two landmasses has yet to end. The Himalayas continue to rise more than 1 cm a year -- a growth rate of 10 km in a million years!
Age aside, the Himalayas boast to be the home of the worldâs highest peak above sea level, Sagarmatha. After the worldâs two polar regions- Antarctica and the Arctic, the Himalayas have the third largest deposit of ice and snow in the world with 15,000 glaciers; Khumbu glacier is within the Everest region. It is dotted with hundreds of lakes below the 5,000 m range.