Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The picture above shows the Mount Everest.
mountains per height
above sea level, all of which are located in Asia. Only those summits are included that, by an objective measure, may be considered individual
mountains as opposed to subsidiary peaks.
The List of highest mountains are as follows:
1) Everest - 8848m
2) K2 - 8611m
3) Kangchenjunga - 8586m
4) Lhotse - 8516m
5) Makalu - 8485m
6) Cho Oyu - 8188m
7) Dhaulagiri - 8167m
8) Manaslu -8163m
9) Nanga Parbat -8126m
10) Annapurna 1 - 8091m
Most mountains in the list are located in the
Himalaya and
Karakoram ranges. In fact, all 7,000 m peaks in the world are located in Central Asia, in a rectangle edged by
Noshaq (7,492 m) on the
Afghanistan-
Pakistan border in the West,
Peak Jengish Chokusu, (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng) (7,439 m) on the
Kyrgyzstan -
Xinjiang border to the North,
Gongga Shan (Minya Konka) (7,556 m) in
Sichuan to the East, and
Kabru (7,412 m) on the
Sikkim -
Nepal border to the South.
Source: wikipedia
The tutor announced at 9:30 AM.
The picture above shows the Mount Everest.
![P4 [2008]](http://s449.photobucket.com/albums/qq220/mentorz/?action=view¤t=P42008.jpg)
