Category: Highest Mountains

Annapurna

Elevation: 8,091 m (26,545 ft)Prominence: 2,984 m (9,790 ft)Isolation: 34 km (21 mi)Coordinates: 28°35′46″N 83°49′13″E Annapurna is the tenth highest mountain in the world above sea level. It is located in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal and is bounded by the Kali Gandaki Gorge on the...

Nanga Parbat

Elevation: 8,126 m (26,660 ft)Prominence: 4,608 m (15,118 ft)  Isolation: 189 km (117 mi)Coordinates: 35°14′15″N 74°35′21″E  Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain in the world above sea level. It is located in the Diamer District of Gilgit-Baltistan region, Pakistan, Nanga Parbat is the western anchor...

Manaslu

Elevation: 8,163 m (26,781 ft)Prominence: 3,092 m (10,144 ft)Isolation: 106 km (66 mi) Coordinates: 28°32′58″N 84°33′43″E Manaslu is the eighth-highest mountain in the world above sea level. It is located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas.  It is said that ‘just as the British consider...

Dhaulagiri

Elevation: 8,167 m (26,795 ft)Prominence: 3,357 m (11,014 ft)Isolation: 318 km (198 mi) Coordinates: 28°41′54″N 83°29′15″E  Dhaulagiri is the seventh highest mountain in the world above sea level, and the highest mountain within the borders of a single country (Nepal). It is bounded on the north and southwest...

Cho Oyu

Elevation: 8,188 m (26,864 ft)Prominence: 2,340 m (7,680 ft)  Isolation: 29 km (18 mi)  Coordinates: 28°05′39″N 86°39′39″E  Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world above sea level. It is located on the China-Nepal border. It is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section...

Makalu

Elevation: 8,463 m (27,766 ft)Prominence: 2,386 m (7,828 ft)  Isolation: 17 km (11 mi) Coordinates: 27°53′23″N 87°05′20″E Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas (19 km South-East of Mount Everest) on the border between Nepal and TAR, China.

Lhotse

Elevation: 8,516 m (27,940 ftProminence: 610 m (2,000 ft)  Isolation: 2.66 km (1.65 mi)Coordinates: 27°57′42″N 86°56′00″E Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain in the world above sea level. It is located on the border between TAR, China and the Khumbu region of Nepal.

Kangchenjunga

Elevation: 8,586 m (28,169 ft)Prominence: 3,922 m (12,867 ft))  Isolation: 124 km (77 mi)  Coordinates: 27°42′09″N 88°08′48″E Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world above sea level. It lies between Nepal and Sikkim, India, with three of the five peaks (Main, Central, and South) directly on the...

K2 (Mount Godwin Austen)

Elevation: 8,611 m (28,251 ft)Prominence: 4,020 m (13,190 ft)Isolation: 1,316 km (818 mi)Coordinates: 35°52′57″N 76°30′48″E K2 or Mount Godwin Austen is the second-highest mountain in the world, after Mount Everest above sea level. It is located on the China–Pakistan border between Baltistan in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of...

Everest

Elevation: 8,848.86 m(29,031.7 ft)Prominence: 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft)  Isolation: 40,008 km (24,860 mi) Coordinates: 27°59′17″N 86°55′31″E Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the Earth above sea level and is located in the  Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point.