Rising above all else in the Andes ... loftiest point is Puncak Jaya (the Carstensz Pyramid) on New Guinea, the world’s highest island peak. The fact that Everest is the highest mountain ...

Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, may be a tiny bit ... eruptions such as those that formed some of the mountains in the Andes of South America. At ocean-ocean convergences, one plate ...

The highest mountain ranges are created by tectonic plates pushing together and forcing the ground up where they meet. This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are ...

At over 6,000 metres, Mt Ampato is one of the highest mountains in Peru ... Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting ...