Mountains
13 records
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01 / Mountains 29,032 ft Highest mountain Mount Everest · Nepal and China border See record ↗ -
02 / Mountains Approximately 20,000 fireworks reported fireworks Most consecutive large-shell fireworks launched Konosu Fireworks Festival · Konosu City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan See record ↗ -
03 / Mountains 13.42 % Deadliest eight-thousand-metre peak by fatality rate Annapurna I · Nepal Himalaya See record ↗ -
04 / Mountains 28,251 ft Second-highest mountain K2 (Mount Godwin Austen) · Karakoram Range, on the Pakistan-China border in the Kashmir region See record ↗ -
05 / Mountains 4,396 ft Tallest vertical cliff face East face of Great Trango Tower · Baltoro Muztagh, Karakoram, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan See record ↗ -
06 / Mountains 24,836 ft Highest unclimbed mountain Gangkhar Puensum · Bhutan-China border, Himalayas See record ↗ -
07 / Mountains 18,510 ft Highest mountain in Europe Mount Elbrus · Caucasus Mountains, southwestern Russia See record ↗ -
08 / Mountains 16,050 ft Highest mountain in Antarctica Vinson Massif (Mount Vinson) · Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, western Antarctica See record ↗ -
09 / Mountains 16,024 ft Highest mountain in Oceania Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid) · New Guinea, Papua Province, Indonesia See record ↗ -
10 / Mountains 33,481 ft Tallest mountain from base to peak Mauna Kea · Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States See record ↗ -
11 / Mountains 20,308 ft Highest mountain in North America Denali (Mount McKinley) · Alaska Range, Alaska, United States See record ↗ -
12 / Mountains 19,341 ft Highest mountain in Africa Mount Kilimanjaro, Uhuru Peak · Tanzania, East Africa See record ↗ -
13 / Mountains 22,837 ft Highest mountain in South America Aconcagua · Mendoza Province, Argentina, near the Chilean border See record ↗
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