X-ray specs; those durn things never worked.
You can still buy them, you know.
Zealously keeping Halloween candy from my big sisters.
Annapurna, the tenth tallest mountain in the world, is the most dangerous of all the eight thousand meter peaks. For every three climbers that makes it to the summit and back safely, another climber dies in the attempt.
Believe me, I will never attempt to climb it.
Can you see your house from the summit?
Does The Eight Thousand Meter Peaks sound like a good name for a rock band?
“Everest. Forbidding. Aloof. Terrifying. This year, this remote Himalayan mountain, this mystical temple, surrounded by the most difficult terrain in the world, repulsed yet another attempt to conquer it. This time, by the International Hairdresser’s Expedition. (cut to shot of pup tent in blizzard) In such freezing, adverse conditions, man comes very close to breaking point. What was the real cause of the disharmony which destroyed their chances at success?”
Fuji is Japan’s highest mountain. It is an active volcano, though the possibility of an eruption anytime soon is considered small. Mount Fuji is also home to the Aokigahara Forest, the world’s second most popular suicide location after the Golden Gate Bridge.
Gasherbrums! Four of them are listed as being in the 20 Highest Mountains.
How about Gangkar Puensum? It’s the 40th highest peak in the world, but the tallest mountain *never *climbed by man. Four expeditions tried and failed in the past, and because (according to Wiki) high-level mountaineering is now illegal in Bhutan, it should retain its “non-summited” status for years to come.
Ice, ice and more ice. Mount Rainier is the most heavily glaciated peak in the lower 48 states.
The summit is topped by two volcanic craters, each more than 1,000 ft. in diameter, with the larger east crater overlapping the west crater. Geothermal heat from the volcano keeps areas of both crater rims free of snow and ice, and has formed the world’s largest volcanic glacier cave network within the ice-filled craters, with nearly two miles of passages.
Jomalhari, one more from the Himalayas. The mountain is sacred to Tibetan Buddhists who believe it is the abode of one of the Five Tsheringma Sisters (jo mo tshe ring mched lnga) — female protector goddesses (Jomo) of Tibet and Bhutan, who were bound under oath by Padmasambhava to protect the land, the Buddhist faith and the local people.
K2: Number two and trying harder (to kill you). A significantly more difficult technical climb than Everest. Beware the The Bottleneck, a particularly dangerous stretch in the “death zone.”
Longest place name in the English-speaking world: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a 305-meter hill in New Zealand.
The Mountain of Mountains: the Matterhorn has become an iconic emblem of the Swiss Alps and the Alps in general. Since the end of the 19th century, when railways were built in the area, it has attracted increasing numbers of visitors and climbers. Each summer a large number of mountaineers try to climb the Matterhorn from the Hörnli Hut via the northeast Hörnli ridge, the most popular route to the summit, with a large number of trekkers as well, undertaking the 10-day long circuit around the mountain.
Nanga Parbat, whose name means “Naked Mountain,” was known for a time known as “Killer Mountain” because of all the deaths of those who tried to climb it. Located in Pakistan,** N**anga Parbat is the Ninth tallest in the world. This mountain has never been climbed in the winter (though why people want to climb impossibly high mountains in the winter is beyond me… but they do). Nanga Parbat base camp is also the site of the 2013 Taliban massacre of ten climbers and a guide, supposedly in retaliation for a drone strike.
The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the Great Stone Face or the Profile, iwas a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a face when viewed from the north. The rock formation was 1,200 feet (370 m) above Profile Lake, and measured 40 feet (12 m) tall and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide. The site is located in the town of Franconia. It collapsed on May 3, 2003.
Pavonis Mons, not nearly the largest of Martian mountains and only slightly larger than almost every mountain on Earth. 375 km wide; 14 km high, almost 46000 ft for you Imperial types.
Queensland’s highest mountain is Mount Bartle Frere, at 5,322 feet. It’s in Wooroonooran National Park.