List of highest mountains
This is a list of the highest mountains in the world. There are at least 109 mountains on Earth that are higher than 7,200 metres (23,622 ft) above sea level. Most of these are in central or southern Asia. It is hard to measure how tall a mountain is, so these measurements may not be exact. It is also hard to figure out if two peaks close to each other are part of the same mountain or are two different mountains.
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1. The summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth
3. Kangchenjunga, the second-highest mountain of the Himalaya
7. Dhaulagiri in the Himalaya
9. Nanga Parbat in the Himalaya
10. Annapurna I in the Himalaya
11. Gasherbrum I, the second-highest mountain of the Karakoram
12. Broad Peak, the third-highest mountain of the Karakoram
13. Gasherbrum II in the Karakoram
14. Shishapangma in the Himalaya
List Of Highest Mountains Media
Figure demonstrating the concept of topographic prominence: The prominence of a peak is the height of the peak's summit above the lowest contour line encircling it and no higher summit. For example, vertical arrows show the topographic prominence of three peaks on an island. A dotted horizontal line links each peak (except the highest) to its key col.
Mount Everest North Face as seen from the path to the base camp, Tibet (5,160 m).
K2 (also known as Chogori) from Broad Peak Base Camp
Lhotse, south face, view from Chukhung Ri. This peak is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. In addition to the main summit at 8,516 meters above sea level. The south face rises 3.2 km in only 2.25 km of horizontal distance, which makes it the steepest face of this size in the world.
Dhaulagiri (8167 m)
Footnotes
- ↑ For Nepal, the heights indicated on the Nepal Topographic Maps are followed. For China and the Baltoro Karakoram, the heights are those of "The Maps of Snow Mountains in China". For the Hispar Karakoram the heights on a Russian 1:100,000 topo map [1] Archived 2008-04-27 at the Wayback Machine seem to be more accurate than the customarily quoted heights probably based on US army maps from the 50s [2] Archived 2013-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. Elsewhere, unless otherwise indicated, heights are those in Jill Neate's "High Asia".
- ↑ The region is beautifully covered by Terraserver.com and Google Maps Satellite imagery. Coordinates were established by comparing topographical maps with these satellite images.
- ↑ The prominence data were extracted from a combination of maps and computer aided analysis of NASA's 3" SRTM data. Prominences over 1,450 m were copied from this website.
- ↑ Here defined as the first higher mountain beyond the key saddle with at least 500 m prominence itself.
- ↑ The number of ascents and failed attempts up to 2004 is extracted from the Alpine Club Himalayan index. These are the number of expeditions (not individuals) that announced their ascent or attempt in a journal. They are probably quite accurate for the rarely climbed peaks (though omissions were noted), but greatly underestimate the number of ascending parties on the easier and/or more popular mountains, like most eight-thousanders. For instance, Mt Everest has been scaled 2,251 times by individuals up to 2004 [3].
- ↑ Given the large differences between multiple "final" measurements of Mt Everest, the traditional 8,848 m is listed. For more information, see Mount Everest#Measurement.
- ↑ Everest IS parent to K2 by the definition of topographic prominence. See also, the discussion page.
Related pages
Other websites
- Summitpost (Has details on 30 of the top 100 peaks)
- Prominence lists (lists all mountains in the world with more than 1,450m of prominence)
- Alpine Club Himalayan index (Gives history of ascents and location of not well known peaks)
- Discussion of often misquoted heights
- Mountains of Northern Kashmir
- Digital elevation data, including all the above peaks and many more worldwide
- Hispar area: expedition reports and maps
- List of highest mountains down to 6750 metres