Mountains
The Seven Summits Quiz
Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson and Puncak Jaya: find the highest mountain on each continent on the world map.
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.
There are two lists of the Seven Summits. Dick Bass, the first to climb them all (in 1985), counted Mount Kosciuszko, the highest in Australia; Reinhold Messner counted Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid) on New Guinea, the highest in Oceania. Most climbers now use Messner’s list, as the Seven Summits quiz does; Famous Mountains of the World has both. A few lists also swap Elbrus for Mont Blanc, depending on whether the Caucasus counts as Europe.
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.
Mountains are placed from their summit coordinates on a world map drawn from official map data.
Maps: official map data
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program: Volcanoes of the World
Other heights and first ascents: official sources
US Geological Survey: New elevation for the nation’s highest peak (Denali, 2015)
About the Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of the seven continents. Climbing all of them became a mountaineering goal in the 1980s; Dick Bass finished first, in 1985, and Pat Morrow was the first to climb Messner’s list, a year later.
The lists disagree about two continents. For Australia and Oceania, the quiz uses Puncak Jaya (4,884 m) on New Guinea, the highest mountain between the Himalayas and the Andes; Bass’s list has Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m) on the Australian mainland. For Europe, Elbrus in the Caucasus is usually counted, though some people put the European boundary south of the Caucasus and name Mont Blanc instead.
The highest on this map
- Mount Everest 8,849 m (29,032 ft)
- Aconcagua 6,961 m (22,838 ft)
- Denali 6,190 m (20,310 ft)
- Kilimanjaro 5,895 m (19,341 ft)
- Mount Elbrus 5,642 m (18,510 ft)
Heights are the cited sources’; where others disagree, the mountain’s card in the quiz says so.