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  2. Ama Dablam - Wikipedia

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    The most popular route by far is the Southwest Ridge (right skyline in the photo). [8] Prior to a 2006 avalanche, climbers typically set up three camps along the ridge with Camp III just below and to the right of the hanging glacier, the Dablam. Any ice that calves off the glacier typically goes left, away from the camp.

  3. Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain. A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (980 ft) above the surrounding land.

  4. Denali - Wikipedia

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    Denali is a granitic pluton, mostly pink quartz monzonite, lifted by tectonic pressure from the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate; at the same time, the sedimentary material above and around the mountain was stripped away by erosion.

  5. Alaska’s Mount Spurr being closely watched for signs of an ...

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    According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the approximately 11,000-foot-tall mountain is a stratovolcano, known for its explosive eruptions. ... Alaska Volcano Observatory photo of Mount Spurr.

  6. Mount of the Holy Cross - Wikipedia

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    Mount of the Holy Cross is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 14,011-foot (4270.5 m) fourteener is located in the Holy Cross Wilderness of White River National Forest, 6.6 miles (10.7 km) west-southwest (bearing 244°) of the Town of Red Cliff in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.

  7. Mount Everest - Wikipedia

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    North Face of Everest as seen from the path to North Base Camp Everest and Lhotse from the south (Nepal): in the foreground are Thamserku, Kangtega, and Ama Dablam. Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha or Qomolangma, [note 4] is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

  8. List of mountain peaks of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of the United States and North America. Mount McKinley is the third most topographically prominent and third most topographically isolated summit on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the United States of America.

  9. Mount Jefferson (Oregon) - Wikipedia

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    An aerial photo of the summit of Mt. Jefferson, October 2015. Mount Jefferson is a stratovolcano, made up of basaltic andesite, andesite, and dacite overlying basaltic shield volcanoes, [35] with andesite and more silicic (rich in silica) rock forming the majority of the mountain. [41]

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