The highest mountains of the world.
While in Mexico , Pico de Orizaba has an altitude of 5754 meters above sea level in a few years to save enough money to practice and wish to achieve greater heights . The following are the highest mountains on each continent.
- Africa : Kilimanjaro ( 5895 m)
- America: Aconcagua ( 6959 m)
- Asia : Everest ( 8848 m), the highest in the world.
- Europe : Elbrus ( 5633 m)
- Oceania: Jaya ( 5029 m)
- The highest in the world.
1 - Everest : 8,850 m (Nepal )
2 - Qogir (K2 ) : 8,611 m (Pakistan )
3 - Kangchenjunga : 8,586 m (Nepal )
4 - Lhotse : 8,501 m (Nepal )
5 - Makalu I: 8,462 m (Nepal )
6 - Cho Oyu : 8,201 m (Nepal )
7 - Dhaulagiri : 8,167 m (Nepal )
8 - Manaslu I: 8,156 m (Nepal )
9 - Nanga Parbat : 8,125 m (Pakistan )
10 - Annapurna I: 8,091 m (Nepal )
The crowning achievement which may have a climber is to reach the summit of Mount Everest , which is the highest mountain on Earth , at 8,848 m altitude . It is located in the Himalayas , in Asia , and marks the border between Nepal and China. In Nepal it is called Sagarmatha ( Forehead heaven) and Chomolungma or Qomolangma in China Feng ( mother of the universe ) . The Everest mountain was named after Sir George Everest, British Surveyor General of India, in 1865.
Climbing Routes
Mount Everest has two main routes of ascent, the southeast by northeast by Nepal and Tibet , plus 13 other lesser-used routes . Of the two, the southeast is technically easier and more used . It was used by Hillary and Norgay in 1953.
Most attempts are made while April and May before the monsoon because there is a change in the jet stream that reduces wind speed at Everest. While attempts are sometimes made after the monsoon in September and October , the snow difficult climbing more.
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Everest has been promoted today by over a thousand people . Since 1978 ( first ascent without supplemental oxygen by Messner and Habeler ) the current tends to clearly differentiate mountaineering ascents made with the aid of supplemental oxygen that do not have this artificial aid.
- Absolute First ascent: May 29, 1953 . Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay .
- First ascent without supplemental oxygen : 1978 . Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler .
- First solo ascent : 1980 . Reinhold Messner ( without supplemental oxygen ) .
- The May 23, 2003 The Nepalese Sherpa Pemba Sherpa Dorjie takes the fastest climb in the history , in 12 h 45 min , but the May 21, 2004 Pemba Sherpa up the mountain Dorjie 8 h 10 min .