The Himalayas look still, but their birth is not over yet.

A summit seems to represent the very solidity. Yet the Himalayan mountains are the result of a movement that continues. The Indian plate met the Eurasian plate after a long northward shift, and this convergence is still compressing the region.

The USGS presents this collision as the engine of the formation of the chain. On the scale of a human life, the displacements seem tiny. On a scale of millions of years, their accumulation is enough to profoundly transform a continent.

However, we must not imagine each summit rising at a fixed and identical speed. Tectonic uplift combines with erosion and local movements. A mountain can therefore change without its altitude increasing regularly like a counter. This monumental landscape tells a story still in progress, of which our gaze captures only a very brief image.