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  2. List of mountain peaks by prominence - Wikipedia

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    Chart showing the relationship between the 100 peaks with highest prominence in the world. (In the SVG version , hover over a peak to highlight its parent(s) and click it to view its article.) This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence .

  3. Mount Everest - Wikipedia

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    The name "Mount Everest" was first proposed in this 1856 speech, later published in 1857, in which the mountain was first confirmed as the world's highest. Mount Everest's Nepali/Sanskrit name is Sagarmāthā (IAST transcription) or Sagar-Matha [10] (सगर-माथा, [sʌɡʌrmatʰa], lit. "goddess of the sky" [11]), [12] which means ...

  4. List of highest mountains on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...

  5. List of Himalayan peaks and passes - Wikipedia

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    Major Mountains Global Rank Peaks Other names and meaning Elevation Prominence (metres) Isolation (km) Region Coordinates Country (disputed claims in italics) First Ascent Notes m ft 1 Mount Everest: Sagarmatha, Chomolungma: 8,848.86 29,032 8,848 infinite Mahalangur

  6. Where is Mount Everest located? Country, height, Nims Purja ...

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    Mount Everest is the world's tallest and perhaps most famed peak. It draws seasoned and amateur climbers alike and miraculously keeps growing. Where is Mount Everest located?

  7. List of elevation extremes by region - Wikipedia

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    Mount Everest, [1] China and Nepal: 8848 m 29,029 ft Dead Sea, [2] Israel, Jordan, and Palestine: −428 m −1,404 ft: 9,276 m 30,433 ft Southern Hemisphere: Aconcagua, Argentina: 6960 m 22,835 ft Laguna del Carbón, Argentina: −105 m −344 ft: 7065 m 23,179 ft Eastern Hemisphere: Mount Everest, [1] China and Nepal: 8848 m 29,029 ft

  8. List of mountains in Nepal - Wikipedia

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    Nepal contains most of the Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world. Eight of the fourteen eight-thousanders are located in the country, either in whole or shared across a border with China or India. Nepal has the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest at an astonishing height of 8848m as well as 1,310 peaks over 6,000 m height.

  9. Why Everest, the world's tallest mountain, is growing ... - AOL

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    Mount Everest is astoundingly tall at 29,032 feet above sea level, besting its Himalayan neighbors by hundreds of feet.. But the world’s tallest peak is still growing, scientists say, thanks in ...