This investigation will help you to:

1. Learn how mountains form.
2. Identify the components of mountain systems.
3. Explore the transfer of matter during mountain building.
4. Explain the role of energy during mountain building.

Mountain Building
Okanagan University College

Information, including diagrams, about the evolution of mountains.

Birth of the Himalaya
NOVA Online

This site accompanies the NOVA special called Everest and includes some background information on continent-contient collisions.

Geomorphology from Space
NASA

NASA devotes a page to the Himalayan Front and Tibetan Plateau within the online book, Geomorphology from Space - A General Overview of Regional Landforms. The technical descriptions annotate a series of photographs of different parts of the Himalayan range.