Mountains
The 14 Highest Mountains Quiz
Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga and the other 8,000 m peaks of the Himalaya and Karakoram: find all 14 on the map, name them, or put them in height order.
Every mountain is labelled. Tap or click one (or pick it from the list) to see its height, range, countries and first ascent. Zoom in to see every name.
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Sources and notes
Heights are in metres and feet. Volcano heights, types, last eruptions and eruptions are from the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program (GVP). Other mountains’ heights and first ascents are from official sources, each checked against at least one other; US summits use the US Geological Survey where it has a current figure. Where sources disagree, the mountain’s card says so.
The map is an equal-area close-up of the Himalaya and Karakoram. Nine of the fourteen are in the Himalayas of Nepal and Tibet, five in the Karakoram and at Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.
Other names count: local names and old spellings (Chomolungma, Sagarmatha, Citlaltépetl, Mount McKinley, Mount Cook), and you can add or leave out “Mount”, “Mt” or “Volcano”.
Find on the map: we name a place, you click its marker (or, for a range, its area). Practice gives you three tries and highlights the right part of the map after two misses; Test gives you three tries without hints; Strict gives you one. After the last miss, the answer is shown and the next one comes up.
In order: all fourteen are labelled on the map; click them from the highest (Everest) to the lowest (Shishapangma). The difficulty levels work as in Find on the map.
Where places are too close to tell apart at the zoom you are at (Everest and Lhotse, the Gasherbrums, the Cascades, the Big Island of Hawaiʻi), their markers step apart, with a thin line to the true summit. Zoom in and each marker moves back to its place.
Maps: official map data
Other heights and first ascents: official sources
About the fourteen 8,000 m peaks
Only fourteen mountains rise more than 8,000 metres above sea level, and all of them are in Asia, in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Annapurna was the first to be climbed, in 1950, three years before Everest; Shishapangma, in Tibet, was the last, in 1964.
Reinhold Messner was the first to climb all fourteen, in 1986, and Jerzy Kukuczka the second, a year later. The fourteen are close together at the top of the list: from Makalu, the fifth-highest, down to Shishapangma the heights fall by less than 460 m.
The highest on this map
- Mount Everest 8,849 m (29,032 ft)
- K2 8,611 m (28,251 ft)
- Kangchenjunga 8,586 m (28,169 ft)
- Lhotse 8,516 m (27,940 ft)
- Makalu 8,485 m (27,838 ft)
Heights are the cited sources’; where others disagree, the mountain’s card in the quiz says so.