Tim parkin is on landscape online photography magazines editor and along with joe cornish co founder. The harz is a mittelgebirge that has the highest elevations in northern germany and its rugged terrain extends across parts of lower saxony saxony anhalt and thuringiathe name harz derives from the middle high german word hardt or hart hill forest latinized as hercyniathe brocken is the highest summit in the harz with an elevation of 11411 metres 3744 ft above sea level. The himalayas or himalaya h m e l e e h m l e j e is a mountain range in asia separating the plains of the indian subcontinent from the tibetan plateauthe range has many of the earths highest peaks including the highest mount everest nepalthe himalayas include over fifty mountains exceeding 7200 m 23600 ft in elevation including ten of the.