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!
Another of the Himalayan super-peaks, Nanga Parbat is the ninth tallest mountain on planet Earth. The massif is the westernmost 8,000 meter peak. It is an isolated range of summits just springing up from nothing, in northen Kashmir, and is surrounded by the rivers Indus and Astore.