Some Mountains

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House's Chimney

A 100-foot-tall crack in a rock wall of K2.

Tenzing Norgay

A Sherpa farmer who made it to the top of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary.

Black Pyramid

A dark pyramid-shaped rock buttress.

Frederick Cook

A man who faked the discovery of the North Pole and Denali ascent.

Annapurna Massif

A massif (compact group of mountains) in the Himalayas.

Matterhorn

A mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy (14,780 feet high).

Mount Kilimanjaro

A volcano in Tanzania in Africa, also Africa's highest peak. Summits are Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira.

Mount Kenya

A volcano in central Kenya.

Sherpas

An ethnic group from the mountains of Nepal that guides people on Mount Everest.

Halford Mackinder

Ascended Mount Kenya.

Elisha Mitchell

Ascended the Mount Mitchell but fell to his death.

Three Steps

Cliff-like parts of Mount Everest.

Sir Edmund Hillary

Explorer and mountaineer remembered for becoming the first to ascend the summit of Mt. Everest.

Edward Whymper

First climber of the Matterhorn.

Darwin Glacier

Glacier of Mount Kilimanjaro. Largest glacier = Credner Glacier.

Polish Glacier

Glacier on Mount Aconcagua.

Mount Denali

Highest mountain in North America.

Mount Aconcagua

Highest peak in the Western Hemisphere, in Argentina.

Mount Everest

Highest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas.

Mount Kosciuszko

Highest point in Australia.

Lake Kawaguchi

Lake that shows a mirror reflection of Mount Fuji.

Yamanaka Lake

Largest of the five Fuji Lakes.

Karakoram

Mountain range: spans the borders of Pakistan, India, and China. Home to K2.

Table-Top Mountain

Original name of Mount Kosciuszko in Aboriginal Languages (Jagungal/Tackingal).

West Buttress Route

Path to ascend Mount Denali.

T. Kosciuszko

Polish and Lithuanian national hero, general and a leader of 1794 uprising (which bears his name) against the Russian Empire. He fought in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army on the side of Washington.

Mount Townsend

Prior name of Mount Kosciuszko.

K2

Second highest mountain in the world.

Sengen-Sama

Shinto goddess related to Mount Fuji.

Mount Mitchell

Tallest peak east of the Rockies.

Black Mountain

Tallest summit in Kentucky. Located in Harlan County.

Khumbu Icefall

The partially melted remnants of a Glacier at the foot of the Western Cwm on the Nepali-side of Mount Everest, not far above Base Camp.

Facing Mount Kenya

This book by Jomo Kenyatta is an account of traditional Kikuyu society under pressure from colonialism.


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