Well, I'm off on another long flight to the Himalayas (9 letters). The Himalayas are a great example of a collision boundary--in this case, the Indian and Eurasian plates are directly colliding and shifting by 5 centimeters a year. The coordinates of the location I'm visiting are about 27.6 degrees North and 86.5 degrees east. This colliding created the volcanic Himalayan mountain range because the Indian plate is rising. Besides having volcanoes, there are also been tons of frequent (and severe) earthquakes and avalanches. A famous (and very recent) earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hit the India/Pakistan border, shocking the countryside. I'm not actually going to climb into the Himalayas, I'm just going to fly over them in a helicopter. Here is a picture of the Himalayas [www.kerdowney.com]:
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