naure.com
GeographySurprise 3/5Difficulty 2/5Reviewed on September 18, 2026

Mount Everest grows about four millimetres a year due to the movement of tectonic plates.

Why it is true

The Indian plate continues to push against the Eurasian plate, forcing the Himalayan mountain range to rise slowly. The 2015 earthquake in Nepal even temporarily shrank the mountain by a few centimetres.

Source: USGS

Would you rather be asked first?

This is the reading side of the site, so the answer is in the sentence above — that is the whole point of it. Test yourself works the other way round: the question comes on its own, and the fact and the explanation only appear once you have answered.

Test yourself →10-question challenge

Related facts

More in Geography

See all →