Blueworld's
Marlin highest mountains
The
Mountain
Height
Continent
Country
Range
1st Climbed
Everest
8850m
Asia
Nepal
Himalayas
1953 by Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay.
K2
8612m
Asia
Pakistan
Kanchenjunga
8586m
Asia
Nepal
Himalayas
1955 by George Band and Joe
Brown.
British Expedition
Lhotse
8501m
Asia
Nepal
Himalayas
1956 by Ernst Reiss and Fritz
Luchsinger.
Swiss Expedition
Makalu
8462m
Asia
Nepal
Himalayas
1955 by J Franco’s
French Expedition
Himalayas
1954 by Herbert Tichy and
Joseph Joechler.
Austrian Expedition
Himalayas
1960 by Kurt Diemberger and
P. Diener. Swiss/
Austrian Expedition
Cho Oyu
8201m
Dhaulagiri
8167m
Asia
Asia
Nepal
Nepal
1954 by Achille Compagnoni
Karakoram
and Lino Lacedelli.
segment of the
Italian Expedition
Himalayan Range
Manaslu
8156m
Asia
Nepal
Himalayas
1956 by T. Imanishi and
Gyalzen Norbu.
Japanese Expedition
Nanga Parbat
8125m
Asia
Pakistan
Himalayas
1953 by Herman Buhl
Himalayas
1950 by Maurice Herzog and
Louis Lachenal.
French Expedition.
Annapurna
Did You
Know
8091m
Asia
Nepal
?
• The world's 109 tallest mountains on Earth are located in Asia.
• If you include under sea level then mount Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain and
meaures over 10,000 metres tall.
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