Alps

The Alps are one of the great mountain range systems of Europe stretching approximately 1200 kilometres across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east France Switzerland Liechtenstein and south east Germany to the west. Monaco and Italy to the south. The mountains were formed over tens of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided. Extreme shortening caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentary rocks rising by thrusting and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. Mont Blanc spans the French--Italian border and at 4810 m is the highest mountain in the Alps. The Alpine region area contains about a hundred peaks higher than 4000 m known as the four-thousanders. This video targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Public domain image source in video,

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