List of mountains

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Eight-thousanders

The 14 "eight-thousanders", 8,000 m or higher, all in the Himalayas:

Mount Everest (8,850 m)
K2 (8,611 m)
Kangchenjunga (8,586 m)
Lhotse (8,545 m)
Makalu (8,462 m)
Cho Oyu (8,201 m)
Dhaulagiri (8,167 m)
Manaslu (8,163 m)
Nanga Parbat (8,126 m)
Annapurna (8,091 m)
Gasherbrum I (8,068 m)
Broad Peak (8,047 m)
Gasherbrum II (8,035 m)
Shishapangma (8,027 m)

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Seven summits

The highest mountains of each continent (the Seven Summits):

Mount Everest, Asia (8,850 m)
Aconcagua, South America (6,959 m)
Mount McKinley (Denali), North America (6,194 m)
Kilimanjaro, Africa (5,895 m)
Mont Blanc, Europe (4,808 m) or Mount Elbrus, Caucasus (5,642 m)
Vinson Massif, Antarctica (4,897 m)
Mount Kosciuszko, Australia (2,228 m) or Carstensz Pyramid, Oceania (4,884 m)

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Earth, by continent

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Africa

Ahaggar, Algeria (3,000 m)
Atlas Toubkal, Morocco (4,165 m)
Auasberge, Namibia (2,484 m)
Kompassberg, South Africa (2,500 m)
Draken Mountains Cathkin Peak, Basuto-South Africa (3,650 m)
Moco, Angola (2,610 m)
Mount Cameroon (4,075 m)
Mount Elgon, Kenya (4,321 m)
Mount Kenya (5,195 m)
Kilimanjaro, Kenya-Tanzania (5,895 m) - highest mountain of Africa
Mount Sinai (2,641 m) - mountain in Egypt where Moses traditionally received the Ten Commandments
Ras Dashan, Ethiopia (4,620 m)
Ruwenzori Mount Stanley (5,119 m) - Congo-Uganda
Ruwenzori Kirunga volcano (4,517 m) - Congo-Ruanda
Rungwe, Zambia (3,175 m)
Table Mountain/Tafelberg (1,088 m) - Cape Town, South Africa
Tibesti, Tschad (3,415 m)

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Antarctica

Mount Albert Markham (4,282 m)
Mount Erebus ( m)
Mount Fridtjof Nansen
Mount Jackson
Mount Kirkpatrick
Mount Markham (4,350 m)
Mount Terror ( m)
Mount Tyree
Vinson Massif (4,897 m), highest mountain in Antarctica

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Asia

Adam's Peak (2243 m) - Sri Lanka
Annapurna - #10 in the world
Mount Apo (2954 m) - highest point in the Philippines
Ararat ( m) - Turkish Armenia, landing site, in folkloric elaborations of the biblical account of Noah, of his ark
Baitou (Paektu) Mountain (2744 m) - highest mountain in Korea, on Chinese/North Korean border
Belukha (4506 m) - Russia, highest peak in Altai Mountains
Broad Peak (8047 m) - #12 in the world
Cho Oyu (8201 m) - #6 in the world
Demavend ( m) - Iran
Dhaulagiri (8167 m) - #7 in the world
Doi Inthanon, highest peak in Thailand
Mount Everest ( m) - Himalayas, Nepal, highest mountain in the world
Mount Fuji (3776 m) - famous Japanese volcano
Gasherbrum I (8068 m) - #11 in the world
Gasherbrum II (8035 m) - #13 in the world
Gauri Sankar
Halla Mountain - volcano; highest peak in South Korea
Mount Jade (3952 m) - highest peak in Taiwan
K2 (8611 m) - Pakistan, world's second highest, but a tougher climb than Everest, Part of the Himalayas range
Kamet - Himalayas, first peak over 25,000 ft to be climbed
Kanchenjunga (8586 m) - #3 in the world, on Nepal-Sikkim border
Mount Kerinchi - highest point of Barisan Range, Sumatra
Mount Kinabalu (4093 m) - Sabah (Borneo), Malaysia
Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4750 m) - Russian volcano
Lenin Peak (7134 m) - Russia
Lhotse (8516 m) - #4 in the world, located in Nepal
Makalu (8462 m) - #5 in the world, located in Nepal
Manaslu (8156 m) - #8 in the world, located in Nepal
Muztagh Tower (7273 m)
Nanda Devi
Nanga Parbat (8125 m) - #9 in the world, located in Pakistan
Pumori (7161 m) - Himalayas
Mount Tambora - Indonesia
Shishapangma (8013 m) - #14 in the world

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Europe

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Alps

Bernina - highest swiss peak of Eastern Alps, Switzerland-Italy (4049 m)
Dachstein - highest peak of Styria and Austrian Limestone Alps, first vertical climbing 19th century (2997 m)
Dent Blanche
Dent du Midi
Diablerets
Eiger - Bernese Alps, Switzerland (3970 m)
Finsteraarhorn - Alps, highest peak of the Bernese Oberland (4274 m)
Gran Paradiso
Grand Combin
Grande Jorasses
Grossglockner - highest peak of Austria (3797 m)
Hochkoenig - Austria near Berchtesgaden, Germany (2938 m)
Jungfrau - Bernese Alps, Switzerland (4158 m)
Koschuta - Karawanken, Austria-Slovenia - famous climbing peak (2135 m)
Matterhorn - photo star above Zermatt, Switzerland-Italy (4477 m)
Mont Blanc - France-Italy (4808 m) - highest mountain of Europe
Monte Cristallo - Dolomites, South Tyrol-Italy (3199 m)
Monte Rosa - Western Alps, Italy - Switzerland second highest mountain of Europe(4634 m)
Mount Elbrus, Caucasus (5642 m) - highest mountain at Europe's border to Asia
Napf - swiss Flysch Alps (1407 m)
Ortler - highest peak of South Tyrol, Italy (3902 m)
Pilatus - near Lucerne, Switzerland (2129 m)
Rigi - overlooking Lake Lucerne (1797 m)
Piz Palu
Schlern - Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy ( m)
Schneeberg - highest peak of Lower Austria (2060 m)
Tödi - swiss Glarus Alps (3620 m)
Traunstein - photo star at Traun Lake, Upper Austria (1610 m)
Triglav - highest peak of Slovenia (2864 m)
Mount Titlis - swiss Urner Alps (3239 m)
Untersberg - near of Salzburg city (1973 m)
Weisshorn
Wetterhorn
Wildspitze - Oetztaler Alps, Austria (3774 m)
Zugspitze - Alps - highest point in Germany (2964 m)

Apennines

Gran Sasso (2912 m) - Italy, highest mountain in the Apennines

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Balkans

Aegaleus - Greece
Ainos - Greece
Čvrsnica - Dinarides, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2238 m)
Dinara - Dinarides, Croatia-Bosnia (Troglav peak 1913 m; Dinara peak 1831 m)
Hymettus - east of Athens, Greece
Korab - highest point in Albania
Montserrat - Spain
Olympus - legendary home of the Greek gods, also the highest in Greece (2918 m)
Panachaicus - northernmost mountain of the Peloponnese, east of Patras, Greece
Parnassus - Greece (2460 m)
Plevlja, Bosnia-Montenegro (2238 m)
Šar Planina, Macedonia-Serbia (Kosovo) (2747 m)
Vergina - Greece

See also: List of mountains in Greece, Greek names of mountains.

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Caucasus

Mount Elbrus (5,642 m) - highest mountain in Caucasus, Russia and at Europe's Asian border
Mount Kazbek (5,047 m) - second highest mountain in Caucasus

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