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Nanga Parbat is the world's ninth highest mountain. It's known for being extremely hard to climb; named the "Killer Mountain" by the 1953 German expedition, first to successfully reach the peak. [204] [205] In addition to the large number of climbing deaths, 11 mountaineers were killed in 2013 by Taliban.
The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise. Many developing countries have far higher proportions of young people, and lower proportions of older people, than some developed countries, and thus may have much higher age-specific mortality rates while having lower crude mortality rates.
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Annapurna (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ p ʊər n ə ˌ-ˈ p ɜːr-/; [5] [6] Nepali: अन्नपूर्ण) is a mountain situated in the Annapurna mountain range of Gandaki Province, north-central Nepal. It is the 10th highest mountain in the world at 8,091 metres (26,545 ft) above sea level and is well known for the difficulty and danger involved ...
Overcrowding and inexperience is proving a dangerous combination on the world's highest peaks. Is it time to introduce controls on who can climb them? Death on Everest: the boom in climbing ...
Climbing Chimborazo Chimborazo is only the 39 th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19 th century when it was thought to be the world ...
The storms resulted in the deaths of at least 43 people. [ 1 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Among the dead were 21 trekkers from several countries walking the Annapurna Circuit , [ 14 ] including two Slovak climbers at Dhaulagiri base camp, [ 9 ] and several local Nepali mountain guides, cooks, and yak herders. [ 15 ]