Top 10 highest mountain in the world

1. TOP 10
HIGHEST
MOUNTAINS
IN THE
WORLD
Prepared by :
RIZA T. IRABON

3. 1.MOUNT EVEREST

4. Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain. Its
peak is an eye-watering 8,848 metres above sea
level, making it well over eight times taller than
the highest mountain in Wales (Smowdon, at 1,085
metres above sea level).
Everest is situated on the border between Nepal
and the autonomous region of Tibet. Officially
speaking, the first successful Everest climbers were
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.

5. K2 (the world's second
highest mountain).
K2, also known
officially as Mount
Godwin-Austen or
Chhogori, has a summit
8,611 metres above sea
level.
2. K2

6. 3.KANGCHENJUNGA

7. Kangchenjunga is a mountain that's
impossible to pronounce after a full crate of
beers. It's also, perhaps more importantly
than that, the third highest mountain in the
world. It sits on the border between Nepal
and India, and has an elevation of 8,586
metres.
This dates back to the first successful climb of
the mountain by Joe Brown and George
Brand in 1955.

8. Lhotse, elevation - 8,516 metres,
is the fourth highest mountain
in the world. It was first
climbed to in 1956 when a
Swiss team made up of Ernst
Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger did
the business.
Interestingly, Lhotse Middle (a
subsidary peak of Lhotse with
an elevation of 8,410 metres)
wasn't summited until 2001.
4.LHOTSE

9. With an elevation of
8,485m, Makalu is
officially the fifth
highest mountain in
the world. Makalu
was first summited in
1955 by Lionel Terray
and Jean Couzy, who
made up part of a
French expedition.5.
5.MAKALU

10. 6.CHO OYU

11. One mountain down the height list from Makalu,
but at the opposite end of the difficulty
spectrum, is Cho Oyu. While it's anything but a
casual walk in the park, its elevation is an
intimidating 8,188 metres.
Cho Oyo, which means "Turquoise Goddess",
stands on the Chinese-Nepalese border. The first
ascent was accomplished by Austrians Joseph
Jöchler and Herbert Tichy, as well Pasang Dawa
Lama from Nepal, in 1954.

12. With an elevation of
8,167 metres, Dhaulagiri
is the seventh highest
mountain in the world.
It's located in Nepal,
and was first summited
in 1960 by a combined
Swiss/Austrian/Nepales
e effort. 7.DHAULAGIRI

13. 8.MANASLU

14. Coming in at number eight on the list of
the all-time highest mountains is
Manaslu. Manaslu can be found in the
west-central part of Nepal, and has a
summit that's situated 8,163m above sea
level.
The first successful ascent of Manaslu
occurred in 1956, when Japanese climber
Toshio Imanishi and Nepalese Sherpa
Gyalzen Norbu made it to the summit.

15. 9.NANGA PARBAT

16. Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain
in the world. Its summit is 8,126 metres above
sea level.
In 1953, Hermann Buhl, who was part of a
German/Austrian expedition team, became
the first man to ascend Nanga Parbat.
Nanga Parbat is a notoriously dangerous hill
to climb, and has been labelled the "Killer
Mountain" by those who deal in nicknames
and the like.

17. 10.ANNAPURA

18. Top 10 highest mountains in the world is
Annapurna. Technically speaking Annapurna is
actually a massif in the Himalayas, comprising
of 30 mountains over 6,000 metres. Historically
speaking Annapurna, and the supporting
peaks in the massif, are some of the world's
most difficult and dangerous mountain to climb.
First summited in 1950 by a French expedition
led by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.

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