How were the himalayas formed?

Question

how were himalayas formed

Answer 1

two continental plates collided forcing them up. As India is pushed north by the Indo-Australian plate into the Eurasian plate the pressure buckles and is forced upwards. The himalayas are still moving up, Everest is about 1.5m taller than it was for the first man to climb it (Edmund Hillary)

Answer 2

2 tectonic plates under the earth crashed 2gether and caused it to rise

Answer 3

The Himalayas were formed when the two huge land masses were pressed together The gigantic mountains were not yet formed, thirty thousand centuries back in time, when the Eastern European and Western North American ranges had already emerged. At the location of the Himalayas, millions of years ago was an enormous body of water.  

Answer 4

According to the most accepted geological theories, India once belonged to an Island continent called Gondwanaland and was separated from the Eurasian continent by the primordial Tethyan ocean. One billion years ago, the Aravallis, whose eroded remnants are visible around Delhi, formed a chain higher than the Himalayas today. Over millions of years these mountains suffered the forces of erosion and their sediments were deposited in the Tethyan ocean. Then 140 million years ago, India began it's northward movement, on a collision course with the Eurasian continent.

The point where the two continents were joined is known, appropriately, as the Indus- Yarlung Suture zone, marked by the courses of these two greatest rivers of the Kailash. After 60 million years, the Indian and Asian plates became closely welded along this suture zone. The northward movement of India continued but at a slower rate - 2-3 centimeters per year.

And what birth pangs.... as a result of the collision itself, and the related contraction of the Tethyan ocean, all the rocks of this area, from the mountains of then northern India to the oceanic crust, and the deep sea sediments of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages, joined in the formation of the Himalayas.