Mountains

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Chimborazo

A inactive stratovolcano in the Andes with a peak elevation of 6,263 meters making in the highest mountain in Ecuador. Its last known eruption is believed to have been around 550 A.D.

Vinson Massif

A large mountain massif that is 21 km long and 13 km wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains. It also overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Ojos de Solado

A massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border and the highest active volcano in the world at 6,893 meters.

Cadillac Mountain

A mountain in Maine within Acadia National Park with an elevation of 1,528 feet.

Matterhorn

A mountain in the alps that straddles the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy.

Mount Kosciusko

A mountain located in the main range of the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park and part of the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves in New South Wales, Australia. At 2,228 meters above sea level, it makes it the highest mountain in mainland Australia.

Shishapangma

Called Gosainthan, is the 14th highest mountain in the world at 8,027 meters above sea level.

K2

Known as Mount Godwin-Austen or Chhogori, is the second highest mountain in the world being 8,611 meters above sea level (or 28,251 feet).

Gasherbrum I

Known as the Hidden Peak or K5 is the 11th highest mountain in the world at 8,080 meters above sea level . It is located on the Pakistan and Chinese border.

Broad Peak

The 12th highest mountain in the world at 8,051 meters above sea level.

Manaslu

The eighth highest mountain in the world at 8,163 meters above sea level. It is located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas in the western-central part of Nepal.

Makalu

The fifth highest mountain in the world at 8,485 meters and is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas that is 19 km southeast of Mount Everest on the border between Nepal and China.

Lhotse

The fourth highest mountain in the world at 8,516 meters. It is part of the Everest massif and is connected to the latter peak via the South Col, and Lhotse means "South Peak" in Tibetan.

Mount Logan

The highest mountain in Canada and the second highest peak in North America. It was named after a Canadian geoligist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada named Sir William Edmond Logan.

Mount Elbrus

The highest mountain in Russia and Europe and the tenth most prominent peak in the world and is a dormant volcano that forms part of the Caucasus Mountains in Southern Russia near the border of Georgia.

Jengish Chokusu

The highest mountain in the Tian Shan mountain system at 7,439 meters. It lies on the Kyrgystan-China border in the Kakshaal Too the highest part of Tien Shan, southeast of lake Issyk Kul.

Mount Rainier

The highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest and is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Washington.

Tirich Mir

The highest mountain of the Hindu Kush range and the highest mountain in the world outside of the mountain in the world outside of the Himalayas-Karakorum range, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Aconcagua

The highest mountain outside of Asia at 6,961 meters and has the highest point in both the Western and Southern Hemisphere.

Denali

The highest mountain peak in North America with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet above sea level.

Cho Oyu

The sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,188 meters above sea level and Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan.

Mount Everest

The tallest mountain on Earth, with its peak being 8,848 meters above sea level (or 29,029 feet). It is located in the Mahalangur mountain range in Nepal.

Kanchenjunga

The third highest mountain in the world and lies partly in Nepal and partially in Sikkim, India and being 28,169 feet tall.

Mount Kailash

This mountain forms some of the Transhimalaya in Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It also lies near the source of some of the longest rivers in Asia including the Indus, Brahmaputra and the Karnali Rivers.

Eiger

A 3,970 meters mountains in the Bernese Alps overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland.

Mount Kilimanjaro

A dormant volcano in Tanzania with three volcanic cones named "Kibo", "Mawenzi", and "Shira". It is the highest mountain in Africa with a height of 5,895 meters above sea level.

Mauna Kea

A dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. It stands 4,207 meters above sea level and its peak is the highest point in the state of Hawaii.

Rakaposhi

A mountain in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. Its situated in the middle of Nagar Valley.

Mount Fuji

An active volcano about 100 km southwest of Tokyo and has Japan's tallest peak at 3,776 meters. It is also considered one of Japan's sacred mountains.

Mount Yotei

An inactive stratovolcano located on Japan's northern most island, Hokkaido. It is called Yezo Fuji or Ezo Fuji as it greatly resembles Mount Fuji.

Puncak Jaya

Called Carstensz Pyramid is the highest summit of Mount Cartensz or Mount Jayawijaya in the Sudirman Range in western central Indonesia.

Mount McKinley

Called mount Denali or Dunbar, is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet above sea level located in Alaska.

Masherbrum

Located in the Ghanche District, Gilgit Baltistan of Pakistan, at 7,821 meters it is the 22nd highest mountain in the world and 9th highest in Pakistan.

Mount Blanc

Meaning white mountain, is the highest mountain in the Alps and the highest in Europe after the Caucasus peaks and it rises 4,808 meters above sea level and is ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence.

Annapurna II

Part of the Annapurna mountain range and is the eastern anchor of the range and was first climbed in 1960.

Mount Whitney

The highest summit in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of 14,505 feet.

Nanga Parbat

The ninth highest mountain in the world at 8,126 meters above sea level. It is the western anchor of the Himalayas around which the Indus river skirts into the plains of Pakistan.

Muztagh Ata

The second highest of the mountains which forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau and is closely connected to the Pamirs.

Gasherbrum II

It is the third highest peak of Gasherbrum massif and is located in Karakoram on the border between Gilgit-Baltistan province province, Pakistan, and Xinjiang, China.

Baintha Brakk

A steep craggy mountain 7,285 meters high in the Panmah Muztagh which is a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range and is located in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

Mount Saint Elias

Also called Boundary Peak 186, is the second highest mountain in both Canada and the United States, being situated on the Yukon and Alaska border.


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