Highest Mountains in the World List ⛰️🧗♂️
What are the top 10 highest mountains in the world? The answer this question depends on exactly how you make the height calculation. For example, Mount Everest, with its 29,029 feet (8,848 m) peak, is the highest mountain above sea level – but not if you measure from the seabed. Were you to do so, Mauna Kea in Hawaii would easily overtake it at a total of 30,184 feet (9,200 m), of which 13,796 feet (4,205 m) are under water.
- ADDucation’s list of the highest mountains in the world was last updated on 18 Aug 2024
If you go one further and choose the core of the Earth as a reference point, Chimborazo in Ecuador is considered the highest mountain on Earth. This is because, being on the equatorial bulge, its summit is furthest away from the center of the Earth at 3967 miles (6384.6 km) around a mile (1.6 km) or so higher than Mount Everest at 3966 miles (6382.4 km).
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| Highest Mountains in the World ⛰️ | Height (ft) | Height (m) | Location | First Ascent | 🧗♂️ First Climber/s & Trivia | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Everest | 29,029 | 8848 | Nepal, Tibet, Himalaya |
29 May 1953 | Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) and Sherpa Tensing Norgay (1914-1986) | 🇳🇿 New Zealand, Nepal🇳🇵 |
| K2 (Lambha Paha) |
28,251 | 8611 | Pakistan, China, Karakoram |
31 Jul 1954 | Lino Lacedelli (1925-2009) and Achille Compagnoni (1914-2009) | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Kangchenjunga | 28,169 | 8586 | Nepal, India, Himalaya |
25 May 1955 | George Band (1929-2011) and Joe Brown | 🇬🇧 Great Britain |
| Lhotse | 27,940 | 8516 | Nepal, China, Himalaya |
18 May 1956 | Fritz Luchsinger (1921-1983) and Ernst Reiss (1920-2010) | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Makalu | 27,766 | 8463 | Nepal, China, Himalaya | 17 May 1955 | Lionel Terray (1921-1965) and Jean Couzy | 🇫🇷 France |
| Cho Oyu | 26,906 | 8201 | Nepal, Himalaya |
19 Oct 1954 | Herbert Tichy (1912-1987), Sepp Jöchler (1923-1994) and Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama (1912-1982) | 🇦🇹 Austria, Nepal🇳🇵 |
| Dhaulagiri | 26,795 | 8167 | Nepal, Himalaya |
13 May 1960 | Kurt Diemberger, P. Diener, E. Forrer, A. Schelbert and Sherpas Nyima and Nawang Dorjê | 🇦🇹 Austria, Nepal🇳🇵 |
| Manaslu | 26,781 | 8163 | Nepal, Himalaya |
9 May 1956 | Toshio Imanishi, K. Kato, M. Higeta from Japan, Artur Hajzer (Polish) and Sherpa Gyalzen Norbu | 🇯🇵 Japan, Nepal🇳🇵 & Poland 🇵🇱 |
| Nanga Parbat | 26,657 | 8125 | Pakistan, Himalaya |
3 Jul 1953 | Hermann Buhl (1924-1957) | 🇦🇹 Austria |
| Annapurna | 26,545 | 8091 | Nepal, Himalaya |
3 Jun 1950 | Maurice Herzog (born 1919) and Louis Lachenal (1921-1955) | 🇫🇷 France |
| Hidden Peak | 26,470 | 8068 | Pakistan, China, Karakoram |
7 Apr 1958 | Pete Schoening (1927-2004) and Andrew Kauffman | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Broad Peak | 26,401 | 8047 | Pakistan, China, Karakoram |
9 Jun 1957 | Hermann Buhl, Kurt Diemberger, Marcus Schmuck and Fritz Wintersteller | Austria 🇦🇹 |
| Gasherbrum II | 26,362 | 8035 | Pakistan, China, Karakoram |
7 Jul 1956 | Fritz Moravec (1922-1997), Hans Willenpart (1927-1979) and Sepp Larch (1930-2011) from Italy | 🇦🇹 Austria, Italy 🇮🇹 |
| Shisha Pangma | 26,335 | 8027 | Tibet, Himalaya |
2 May 1964 | Xǔ Jìng, Chéng Tiānliàng, Chén Sān, Wang Fuzhou, Piotr Morawski, Soinam Dorjê, Migmar Zhaxi, Yún Dēng, Zhāng Jùnyán, Wū Zōngyuè and Sherpa Dorjê | 🇨🇳 China |
| Gyachung Kang | 26,089 | 7952 | Nepal, Tibet, Himalaya |
11 Apr 1964 | Y. Kato, K. Sakeisawa, K. Yasuhisa and Sherpa Pasang Phutar III (Sirdar) | 🇯🇵 Japan, Nepal🇳🇵 |
| Annapurna II | 26,040 | 7937 | Nepal, Himalaya |
17 May 1960 | Sir Christian Bonington, Richard Grant and Sherpa Ang Nyima | 🇬🇧 Great Britain, Nepal🇳🇵 |
| Gasherbrum IV | 26,024 | 7932 | Pakistan, Karakoram |
6 Aug 1958 | Walter Bonatti (1930-2011) and Carlo Mauri | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Himalchuli | 25,896 | 7893 | Nepal, Himalaya | 24 May 1960 | Hisashi Tanabe, Masahiro Harada, M. Miyashita, K. Nakazawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Distaghil Sar | 25,869 | 7885 | Pakistan, Karakoram |
9 Jun 1960 | Günther Stärker and Diether Marart | 🇦🇹 Austria |
| Ngadi Chuli | 25,823 | 7871 | Nepal, Himalaya |
8 May 1979 | Ryszard Gajewski and Maciej Pawlikowski | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| Kunyang Chhish | 25,761 | 7852 | Pakistan, Karakoram |
26 Aug 1971 | Andrzej Zawada, Jan Stryczynski, Andrzej Heinrich and Ryszard Szafirski | 🇵🇱 Poland |
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Mount Everest Factoids: Since the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 more than 5790 different climbers have succeeded in reaching the summit (Sep 2020). The climb remains risky with at least 306 fatalities to date.
Great Things Are Done When Men and Mountains Meet– wrote William Blake in his notebook of poems circa 1807-1809
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