Best Highest Mountains in World You Must See

We know that there are different types of major landforms on Earth such as mountains, plateaus, plains, deserts, and islands. The land of India shows physical variations. In this article, we will learn about the 10 highest mountain peaks in the world. The Himalayan mountain range is a newly folded mountain range that has the world's highest peaks, deep valleys and fast flowing rivers. The Himalayan mountain range extends from the Indus river in the west to the Brahmaputra river in the east. The total length of the Himalayas is 2400 km and it forms a semicircle. Its width decreases on going from west to east. In Kashmir Its width is 400 km and in Arunachal Pradesh it is 150 km .

The Himalaya mountain range is the world's highest mountain range located in the continent of Asia and the 10 highest mountain peaks of the world are located in Asia itself. Before knowing about the 10 highest mountain peaks in the world , let us first know what a mountain is called.

What is a mountain called?

A mountain is a naturally raised landform on the surface of the earth. The top (peak) of the mountain is short and the base (surface) is wide. The mountain is much higher than its surrounding area. The height of the mountain should be 600 meters more than the base of the earth. The mountain covers an area of 26% of the total surface area.

If you also like to read about mountains, then this article is for you. In this article, a lot of information has been given about mountains, which is also very important for competitive exams. In this article you will learn interesting facts about mountains. So let's start our topic, 10 highest mountain peaks in the world.

In the table below you can see a list of the highest mountains in the India.

S.No.	Mountain name	Height in Meters	Height in Feet	Mountain Range	Country
1.	Mount Everest (Another name for Everest - Sagarmatha Chomolungma)	8,848.86	29,031.7	Mahalangur Himalaya	Nepal, China
2.	K2	8,611	28,251	baltoro karakoram	Pakistan, China
3.	kangchenjunga	8,586	28,169	Kangchenjunga Himalaya	Nepal, India
4.	Lhotse	8,516	26,940	Mahalangur Himalaya	Nepal, China
5.	Makalu	8,485	26,838	Mahalangur Himalaya	Nepal, China
6.	Cho Oyu	8,188	26,864	Mahalangur Himalaya	Nepal, China
7.	Dhaulagiri I	8,167	26,795	Dhaulagiri Himalayas	Nepal
8.	Manaslu	8,163	26,781	Manaslu Himalayas	Nepal
9.	Nanga Parbat	8,126	26,660	Nanga Parbat Himalaya	Pakistan
10.	Annapurna I	8,091	26,545	Annapurna Himalaya	Nepal

In the table below you can see a list of the highest mountains in the world.

Numbers in India	Number in the World	Mountain name	Mountain height	Mountain Range Name	State
1	2	K2 Godwin-Austen	8,610	karakoram	Ladakh
2	3	Kangchenjunga	8,586	Himalaya	Sikkim
3	23	Nanda Devi	7,816	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
4	29	Kamet	7,756	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
5	31	Saltoro Kangri / K10	7,742	Saltoro karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
6	35	Saser Kangri / K22	7,672	Saser Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
7	48	Mamostong Kangri / K35	7,516	Rimo Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
8	49	Saser Kangri II E	7,513	Saser Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
9	51	Saser Kangri III	7,495	Saser Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
10	56	Teram Kangri I	7,462	Siachen Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
11	57	Jongsong Peak	7,462	Kangchenjunga Himalaya	Sikkim
12	61	K2	7,628	Saltoro Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
13	65	Kabru N	7,412	Kangchenjunga Himalaya	Sikkim
14	69	Ghent Kangri	7,401	Saltoro Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
15	71	Remo 1	7,385	Rimo karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
16	73	Teram Kangri III	7,382	Siachen Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
17	76	Kirat Chuli	7,362	Kangchenjunga Himalaya	Sikkim
18	92	Mana Peak	7,272	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
19	96	Apsaras Kangri	7,245	Siachen Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
20	97	Mukut mountain	7,242	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
21	98	Remo 1	7,233	Rimo karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
22	108	Singhi Kangri	7,202	Siachen Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
23		Hardeol	7,161	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
24		Chaukhamba I / Badrinath Peak	7,138	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
25		Noon-Kun	7,135	Zanskar Himalaya	Jammu and Kashmir
26		Pauhunri	7,128	Sikkim Himalaya	Sikkim
27		Pathibhara / Pyramid	7,123	Kangchenjunga Himalaya	Sikkim
28		Trishul mountain	7,120	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
29		Satopanth	7,075	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
30		Tirsuli	7,074	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
31		Chong Kumdang Ri	7,071	Rimo karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
32		Dunagiri	7,066	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
33		Kangto	7,060	Assam Himalayas	Arunachal Pradesh
34		Nayyagi Kansang	7,047	Assam Himalayas	Arunachal Pradesh
35		Padmanabha	7,030	rimo karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
36		Shudu Tsampa	7,024	Sikkim Himalaya	Sikkim
37		Chamshen Kangri / Tughmo Zarpo	7,017	Saser Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
38		AK Tash	7,016	Rimo Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
39		Chong Kumdang Ri II	7,004	Rimo Karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
40		Sage Hill	6,992	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
41		Thalay Sagar	6,984	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
42		Laxmi Parvat	6,983	Rimo karakoram	Jammu and Kashmir
43		Kedarnath Main	6,968	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
44		Langpo	6,965	Sikkim Himalaya	Sikkim
45		Saraswati Parvat I / Saraswati Shikhar	6,940	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
46		Shahi Kangri	6,934	Plateau of Tibet	Jammu and Kashmir
47		Sri Kailash	6,932	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
48		Kalanka	6,931	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand
49		Chorten Naima Ree	6,927	Sikkim Himalaya	Sikkim
50		Saif Minal / P. 6911	6,911	Garhwal Himalayas	Uttarakhand

Now we will discuss the above mentioned mountains in detail.

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. The height of Mount Everest is 8,848.86 meters. The height of Mount Everest in feet is 29,031.7 feet. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalaya sub-range of the Himalayas. Before Mount Everest, Mount Kangchenjunga was considered the highest peak in the world. Mount Everest is located on the border between Nepal and the Autonomous Region of Tibet, China.

Mount Everest was previously known by the British as Peak XV , but in the nineteenth century it was renamed after the former Surveyor General of India, George Everest .

The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma , which means "Queen of the Mountains" . The Nepali name for Mount Everest is Sagarmatha , which means "goddess of the sky" . The cost of climbing Mount Everest is approximately $45,000.00 (Rs 32,000,00 in India) .

Everest Records

Tenzing Norgay, an Indian citizen of Nepalese origin, and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to reach the summit of Everest in 1953. They used the Southeastern Ridge route.
The first woman to climb Everest was Junko Tebai (Japanese mountaineer) in 1975 .
Bachendri Pal was the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1984. (He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award by the Government of India in 2019.)
Santosh Yadav was the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice (in 1992 and 1993) .
Avtar Singh Cheema was the first Indian to climb Mount Everest in 1965.
Arunima Sinha is the first handicapped woman to climb the summit of Everest.
Malvatha Poorna (13 years and 11 months), on May 25, 2014, is the youngest woman to climb Mount Everest from India.
Nepal's Kami Rita Sherpa holds the record for climbing Mount Everest for the most number of times. He has climbed Mount Everest 24 times till May 20, 2019 .
Jordan Romero (13 years, 10 months, 10 days) of California was the youngest person to climb Mount Everest on 22 May 2010 .

The death rate among those attempting to climb Mount Everest is about 6.5% .

Mount K2 (Godwin Austen)

Mount K2 is the second highest mountain in the world . Mount K2 has an elevation of 8,848 meters (29,029 ft). Mount K2 is located in the north-western Karakoram Range. It is located on the Sino-Pakistan border between Baltistan (Pakistan) and Xinjiang (China). This mountain was discovered in 1856 by Colonel Thomas Montgomery . The mountain was given the symbol K2 by Thomas Montgomery as it was the second peak measured in the Karakoram range. Mount K2 is locally known as Chogori .

Henry Godwin Austen was the first surveyor of this peak, hence it is also named Godwin Austen . Mount K2 is known as Mount Berber because George Bell, an American climber, told reporters, "It's a barbarian mountain that tries to kill you." Some other names for Mount K2 are "King of the Mountains" and " mountain of climbers" .

Mount K2 is considered even more difficult and dangerous than Mount Everest . It is the only mountain that has never been climbed in the winter, nor has any attempt been made to climb from its eastern face. Climbers mostly attempt to climb it in the months of July and August. The hottest time of the year makes it easy to climb.

In July 1954 two Italian climbers Achill Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli were the first to reach the summit of K2 (in the Italian Karakorum expedition led by Ardito Dacio).

Wanda Ratkiewicz (Polish mountaineer) was the first woman to reach the summit of K2. She was the third person to climb Mount Everest.

Mount Kanchenjunga

Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world . The elevation of Kangchenjunga is approximately 8,586 meters (28,169 ft). It is located in the Eastern Himalayas. It is situated on the border between Nepal and Sikkim (India). Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was considered the highest mountain in the world but after 1856 it was officially declared that Kangchenjunga was the third highest mountain in the world after Mount Everest and Mount K2 .

Kangchenjunga was first climbed by Joe Brown and George Band on 25 May 1955 as part of a British expedition.

Mount Kangchenjunga is also known as the " Five Treasures of Snow" .

Ginette Harrison was the first woman to climb Kangchenjunga in 1998 .

[Note: Kangchenjunga is the highest peak in India and Mount K2 (Godwin Austen) is the highest peak in the Indian subcontinent.]

Mount Lhotse

Mount Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain in the world . Mount Lhotse has an elevation of about 8,516 meters (27,940 ft). Mount Lhotse is located on the border of Nepal's Khumbu region and China's Tibet. Mount Lhotse is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. Lhotse means "South Peak" in Tibetan . The main summit of Lhotse was first climbed on 18 May 1956 by the Swiss team of Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger.

Chantal Moudit became the first woman to reach the summit of Lhotse in 1996.

Arjun Vajpayee became the youngest mountaineer to climb Lhotse in May 2011 at the age of 17 years, 11 months and 16 days . He is an Indian mountaineer.

Mount Makalu

Mount Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world . The height of Mount Makalu is about 8481 meters (27825 ft). It is located 20 km southeast of Everest in the Mahalangur Himalayas, on the border between Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China. Mount Makalu was first climbed on 15 May 1955 by Lionel Terre and Jean Couzy of a French expedition led by Jean Franco . Kitty Calhoun was the first woman to climb Mount Makalu via the West Pillar route in 1990 .

Mount Cho Oyu

Cho Oyu Mountain is the sixth highest mountain in the world. The elevation of Cho Oyu Mountains is approximately 8,188 meters (26,864 ft). It is situated between the Nepal-China border. This mountain is located 20 km west of Mount Everest .

Mount Cho Oyu is considered the easiest 8000 meter peak to climb.

Mount Cho Oyu was first climbed on October 19, 1954 by an Austrian expedition through the North-West Ridge by Herbert Tichy, Josef Jökler and Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama .

This mountain is the second highest climbed mountain after Mount Everest at an altitude of 8000 meters.

Cho Oyu means "blue goddess" in Tibetan .

Mount Dhaulagiri

Dhaulagiri mountain is the seventh highest mountain in the world. The height of Dhaulagiri mountain is about 8167 meters. The mountain was first climbed by a Swiss/Australian/Nepalese expedition on 13 May 1960 under the leadership of Max Iselin . The name Dhaulagiri comes from Sanskrit where Dhawala means shining, white, beautiful and giri means mountain.

Dhaulagiri is the highest mountain within the border of a country (Nepal). Dhaulagiri was considered the highest mountain until 1836 when Kangchenjunga replaced it, followed by Mount Everest in 1858.

Mount Manaslu

Mount Manaslu is the eighth highest mountain in the world. The height of Mount Manaslu is about 8163 meters (26781 ft).

The name Manaslu comes from the Sanskrit word 'manasa' and the word means 'intellect or soul' and manaslu means "mountain of the soul" .

It is also called 'Killer Mountain' by the local people as 53 climbers lost their lives in this mountain between 1956 and 2006 . Mount Manaslu is in the Mansiri Himal which is part of the Nepalese Himalayas.

It was first climbed on May 9, 1956 by Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norba (who are members of the Japanese expedition).

Manaslu mountain is about 64 km east of Annapurna mountain .

Annapurna is the fourth most dangerous 8000 meter peak to climb , Mount Manaslu , behind Nanga Parbat and K2 .

Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain in the world . The height of Nanga Parbat is about 8126 meters (26660 ft).

The mountain is also known as "Diamr or Deomir" in Tibetan, which means "Great Mountain" . Nanga Parbat is located in the Pakistan-controlled Gilgit-Baltistan region, which India also considered as its part.

Nanga Parbat is known as a 'killer mountain' due to its difficult climb and high number of deaths of climbers.

It was first climbed on 3 July 1953 by an Australian mountaineer, Hermann Buhl . He was a member of a German-Austrian team led by Peter Aschenbrenner .

The name Nanga Parbat is derived from the Sanskrit words "Nagana and Parvat" , meaning "naked mountain" .

Mount Annapurna

Annapurna mountain is the tenth highest mountain in the world. The height of Annapurna Parvat is about 8091 meters (26545 feet).

It is located in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal. It was first climbed on 3 June 1950 by French climbers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal .

It is very difficult to climb this mountain. It is the most dangerous mountain in the world in terms of risk.

The mortality rate during this climb is about forty percent compared to a successful climb ( Mt K2 has a mortality rate of about 26.5% and Mt Everest about 3.87% ).

The Gandaki Gorge separates the Annapurna Mountains from the Dhaulagiri Mountains .

The Annapurna mountain range comprises four main peaks – Annapurna I (8091 m, 26545 ft located at the western end of the range), and Annapurna II (7937 m, 26040 ft located at the eastern end of the range). Annapurna III (7555 m, 24786 ft), and Annapurna IV (7525 m, 24688 ft) lie between them.

Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is a state located in northeastern India and is known for its rugged terrain and rich biodiversity. The state"s capital is Itanagar, and it is home to several ethnic groups, including the Monpa, Adi, and Nyishi. The state"s economy is driven by agriculture and tourism, with apple farming being the primary crop grown. The state is also known for its rich cultural heritage, with several indigenous festivals being celebrated throughout the year. Arunachal Pradesh has several notable tourist destinations, including the Tawang Monastery, the Namdapha National Park, and the Ziro Valley.

Sikkim

Located in the Himalayas, Sikkim is a small and scenic state known for its natural beauty and unique culture. It is home to several Buddhist monasteries and is known for its vibrant festivals and traditions. Agriculture is the main source of income, with cardamom, ginger, and oranges being the major crops. The state is also a major producer of hydropower and is known for its eco-tourism initiatives.

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand is a state located in the northern part of India. It was formed on 9 November 2000 as the 27th state of India. The state is known for its scenic beauty and is often referred to as the "Land of the Gods" due to the presence of numerous Hindu temples and pilgrimage centers. The state has a total area of 53,483 square kilometers and is bordered by Tibet in the north, Nepal in the east, and the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh to the south and Himachal Pradesh to the west. Dehradun is the capital of Uttarakhand.

Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir is a union territory of India located in the northern part of the country. It was a state until 2019, when it was reorganized into two union territories - Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Jammu and Kashmir is bordered by Pakistan to the west and north, and by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south. The official languages of Jammu and Kashmir are Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri, Punjabi and Hindi. The economy of Jammu and Kashmir is mainly based on agriculture, horticulture, handicrafts, and tourism.

Ladakh

Ladakh is a union territory located in the northernmost region of India. It is known for its breathtaking natural beauty, including the Himalayan mountain range and the high-altitude desert of the Tibetan Plateau. The region is sparsely populated and home to a mix of cultural and religious traditions, including Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism.Ladakh"s economy is largely driven by tourism, with visitors coming to explore the region"s stunning natural landscapes and unique cultural heritage. The union territory is also home to several important cultural and historical landmarks, including the Leh Palace and the Hemis Monastery.