Top Mountain Peaks...!

Mountains are generally classified into four types based on the process of their formation. They are Folded mountains, Domed mountains, Volcanic mountains and fault block mountains. This classification is done based on their process of formation. The adjoining image gives visual representation of each of these types. 

Here is the list of top 10 mountain peaks in the world.

Peak	Mountain	Type	Height
Everest	Himalaya	Fold	8848
K2	Karakoram	Fold	8611
Kanchenjunga	Himalaya	Fold	8586
Lhotse	Himalaya	Fold	8516
Makalu	Himalaya	Fold	8485
Cho Oyu	Himalaya	Fold	8188
Dhaulagiri	Himalaya	Fold	8167
Manaslu	Himalaya	Fold	8163
Nanga Parbat	Himalaya	Fold	8126
Annapurna	Himalaya	Fold	8091

The Himalayas and Karakoram are thus the home of the highest peaks in the world with no exception. The list of top 100 also contains only Himalayan/ Karakoram peaks! 

The highest non Himalayan/ Karakoram peak in the world does not even feature in the top 100! It is mount Aconagua in South America and is below 7000 metres. Both the himalayas and Karakoram are fold mountains viz they are formed by relative movement of earth plates leading to their formation. Hence it is clearly evident that fold mountains are the ones with highest potential of high peaks.

Besides, all these peaks are located in the Indian subcontinent or adjoining areas. There is a theory which says that there was relative movement which actually lead to movement of Indian subcontinent from Africa into Asia and this collision led to formation of Himalayas. Had this relative movement not happened, the world might not have seen these big peaks getting formed.

The Earth plates keep moving un-noticeably and once in a few 1000s of years lead to formation/ destruction of some of the highest and lowest points in the world history.  Going to the extreme imagination, one should say, Don't take the land under you for granted, it didn't exist sometime in history and has a very high probability that it will not exist sometime in future!