Clues to Cataclysms: Young Mountains

The jagged, clean rock faces of mountains like Fitz Roy in Patagonia
attest to the recentness and speed at which they were thrust up.

Italian Alps

Before the scientific community was seduced by the theories of uniformitarianism and Darwinian evolution, geologists correctly interpreted that the majority of the height of the mountain ranges around the world was added very recently, like within the last 12,000 years, and a result of a cataclysm. 

However, within a 100 years, geologists jumped on board and consciously misinterpreted the evidence to fit their bias. 

Rocky Mountains

They now claim these same mountains to be millions and millions of years old and that the uplift occurred no faster than just a few centimeters per year. 

However, if that were true, any rock formation would erode as they are thrust up. The upper parts would be more eroded than the lower parts. Or we wouldn't have mountains at all, because they would erode at the same rate they were thrust up.

You could forget seeing photos like on this page of fresh, jagged youthful rocky pinnacles.

These young mountains attest to the recentness of the upheaval and how quickly it happened. 

The majority of mountains reached their current height in a single cataclysmic event at the end of the Pleistocene - around 10,000 years ago (maybe even as recent as 5000 years ago) Read: Science and Religion: Both Dating Methods Are Wrong

Huascaran, Peru

It happened when the tectonic plates shifted violently, causing global chaos due to widespread volcanism, crustal rifting and folding, sinking continents and rising sea floors, global flooding and ended with the flood waters receding to expose mountains that had grown thousands of feet higher than they were before the cataclysm. Read: The Most Recent Cataclysm WAS Noah's Flood After All.

Patagonia, Argentina

Many scientists of renown in the mid to late 1800s and early 1900s claimed that mountain ranges around the world increased in height considerably within the last 11,000 years in one event. These include the Bayan Kara Shan in western China that added 6,500 feet in height. The Tibetan Plateau grew by an incredible 9750 feet. Some of the summits in the Alps added a staggering 12,000 feet. Some parts of the Rocky Mountains not only rose to similar heights, but also laterally overthrust the Great Plains by a distance of at least eight miles.

The same thing happened all along the Andes mountains in South America. 

The erosion that you do see occurred at a more rapid rate during the first centuries following that recent event. The surface became more stabile over time and the erosion is measurably slower today.

Every time our earth experienced a cataclysmic shift, the deformation of the crust created ever taller mountains and ever deeper ocean trenches. Read: Unconformities Are Clues to Cataclysmic Extinction Events to see how many there have been since the beginning of our planet's history.

Grand Tetons, USA

Mt. Cook National Park, New Zealand

Himalayas

Sources:
D. S. Allan and J. B. Delair, Cataclysm!: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C. (Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1995)