Remount'n

In preparation for listing the highest peaks I had a peek at the Everest stats. Quite apart from the academic exercise, it made me realise just how formidable conditions are that far up. Wikipedia contributor has braved the elements and brought back a guide to the different features, not to say hazards.

It seems that if you die on this mountain, you get left there, and bodies of those who've perished can still be viewed as you make your ascent. This may contradict the opinion of those who feel that mountain climbing these days has become a doddle.

Mount Everest/
Sagarmatha /
Chomolungma


K2/
Qogir/
Godwin Austen


Kangchenjunga

Lhotse

Makalu

Cho Oyu 

Dhaulagiri I

Manaslu

Nanga Parbat

Annapurna I

Gasherbrum I

Broad Peak

Gasherbrum II

Shishapangma

Gyachung Kang

Gasherbrum III

Annapurna II

Gasherbrum IV


Mahalangur Himalaya is a range that achieves great heights, and also up where the air is thin, Baltoro Karakoram and various other parts of the Himalayas such as Kangchenjunga Himalaya, Dhaulagiri and Manaslu and more.

My arbitrary cut-off - over a hundred of the highest peaks are all in this Asian region - was at those mountains over twenty six thousand feet above sea level.