Some Mountains
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.
