Edurne Pasaban Lizarribar (born August 1, 1973) is a Basque Spanish mountaineer, from Tolosa, in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Cou...
Poland
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan ( / Ë k É'Ë z É k Ë s t É'Ë n / or / Ë k n> æ z É k Ë s t æ n / ; Kazakh: ÒазаÒÑÑан Qazaqstan , ...
Juanito Oiarzabal
Juan Eusebio Oiarzabal Urteaga (born 30 March 1956) commonly known as Juanito Oiarzabal is a noted Spanish Basque mountaineer and has writ...
Phurba Tashi
Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa (Nepali: फà¥à¤°à¥à¤µà¤¾ तासॠशà¥à¤°à¥à¤ªà¤¾ ) is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer, born 1971, know...
Erhard Loretan
Erhard Loretan (28 April 1959 â" 28 April 2011) was a Swiss mountain climber, often described as one of the greatest mountaineers of ...
Oxygen
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Jerzy Kukuczka
Jerzy Kukuczka (24 March 1948 in Katowice â" 24 October 1989 Lhotse) - was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. Born in Katowic...
Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner (born 17 September 1944) is a mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the Italian autonomous province of South ...
Maurice Herzog
Maurice Herzog (15 January 1919 â" 13 December 2012) was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led ...
Avalanche
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Gurkha
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J. Norman Collie
John Norman Collie FRS (10 September 1859 â" 1 November 1942), commonly referred to as J. Norman Collie , was a British scientist, mo...
Albert F. Mummery
Albert Frederick Mummery (10 September 1855, Dover, Kent, England â" 24 August 1895, Nanga Parbat), was an English mountaineer and au...
Earth
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Khumbu
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International Space Station
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List of peaks by prominence
This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence. Terminology The prominence of a peak is the minimum height o...
List of mountain passes
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List of mountain ranges
This is a list of mountain ranges organized alphabetically by continent. Ranges on other astronomical bodies are listed afterward. Eart...
Comoros
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Grande Comore
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Mount Karthala
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Réunion
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Piton des Neiges
The Piton des Neiges (Snow Peak) is a massive 3,069 m (10,069 ft) shield volcano on Réunion, one of the French volcanic islands in the...
Falkland Islands
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East Falkland
East Falkland (Spanish: Isla Soledad ) is the largest island of the Falklands in the South Atlantic having an area of 6,605Â km 2 (2,550 s...
Mount Usborne
Mount Usborne Spanish: Cerro Alberdi is a mountain on East Falkland. At 705 metres (2,313Â ft) above sea level, it is the highest point in...
São Tomé Island
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Pico de São Tomé
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Queen Mary's Peak
Queen Mary's Peak is the summit of the island of Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic Ocean. It has an elevation of 2,062 metres (6,...
Azores
The Azores ( UK / É Ë z É"r z / É- ZORZ , US / Ë eɪ z É"r z pan title="Representation in the International Phonetic ...
Mount Pico
Mount Pico (Portuguese: Montanha do Pico ) is a stratovolcano and the highest mountain of Portugal, located on the island of Pico, in the m...
Fogo, Cape Verde
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Teide
Mount Teide (Spanish: Pico del Teide , IPA: [Ëpiko ðel Ëteiðe] , "Teide Peak") is a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islan...
Monte Sarmiento
Monte Sarmiento is a pyramidal peak with a glaciated saddle-shaped summit located within Alberto de Agostini National Park, in the Chilean ...
Villarrica (volcano)
Villarrica ( / Ë v iË É Ë r iË k É / VEE -É- REE -kÉ ) (Spanish: Volcán Villarrica , Mapudungun: >Ruka Pillañ ) is one of Chi...
Cerro Torre
Cerro Torre is one of the mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located in the border between Argentina an...
Fitz Roy
Monte Fitz Roy (also known as Cerro Chaltén , Cerro Fitz Roy , or simply Mount Fitz Roy ) is a mountain located near El Chaltén village, ...
Tronador
Tronador is an extinct stratovolcano in the southern Andes, located along the border between Argentina and Chile, near the Argentine city o...
Cerro El Plomo
Cerro El Plomo is a mountain located in the Andes near Santiago, Chile. With an elevation of 5,434 m (17,783Â ft), it is the largest peak v...
Llullaillaco
Llullaillaco is a potentially active stratovolcano at the border of Argentina (Salta Province) and Chile. It lies in the Puna de Atacama, a...