The Tallest Mountain in The World

a lot of people thought that maybe the peak of this mountain wasn’t at all reachable.

The 1954 expedition included 11 climbers (one of whom died en route to the peak), six scientists, and no less than 500 porters. Only Compagnoni and Lacedelli actually managed to reach the top. This incredibly remote and challenging mountain peak is so named for being the second mountain in the Karakoram group of mountains (Karakoram-2), as listed by the surveyor T. G. Montgomery in 1856. K2, or Ketu, is sometimes locally referred to as Chogori, which means “Great Mountain.” K2 is also occasionally called Mount Godwin-Austen, in honor of the person who supervised the 1856 survey.

Kangchenjunga Also found in the Himalayas on the Nepal/Indian side, this third tallest mountain was thought to be the highest mountain in the world in the past, up to the year 1849. It is also extremely difficult to scale. Aside from its imposing height, it is constantly visited by avalanches and mudslides. The first persons to scale it were the British explorers George Band and Joe Brown in 1955. The local Sikkimese people consider this mountain sacred.

Its name means “the Five Treasures of the Great Snow.” There are five other peaks arising from the glaciers around Kangchenjunga.

Lhotse This peak was first scaled in 1956 by a Swiss team of mountaineers led by Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger. The group was attempting to climb to the peak of Mount Everest, and they went by Mount Lhotse as an alternative route. Mount Lhotse is in the Central Himalayas, in Nepal and China.

Makalu Mount Makalu is also in the Central Himalayas. It is an isolated peak close to Mount Everest. It is beautifully formed, as close to a perfect pyramid as can be, with four sharp ridges that make for a very challenging climb. The mountain is lauded for being perhaps the most structurally stunning in the Himalayan region.