"Magnificent wreckage of continents in collision: Fifty million years ago an immense island collided with mainland Asia to create the Indian subcontinent and push the Himalaya skyward. Those peaks rise to 20,000 feet [6,096 meters] in the Ladakh region, where India and China are now close to resolving territorial disputes."—From "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine
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