Bananas for Scale

Mountains

The great peaks of the world, measured and compared.

Mount Everest

The highest point on Earth's surface

K2

The Savage Mountain

Denali

Tallest mountain from base to peak on land

Mount Kilimanjaro

Africa's highest peak and a freestanding volcanic giant

Mount Fuji

Japan's iconic sacred peak

Matterhorn

The iconic pyramid of the Alps

Mauna Kea

Earth's tallest mountain measured from base to peak

Mont Blanc

The highest peak in the Alps and Western Europe

Aconcagua

The highest peak in the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere

Elbrus

Europe's highest peak, a dormant volcano in the Caucasus

Kangchenjunga

The third highest mountain in the world, revered as sacred

Mount Everest Summit

The highest point on Earth is the size of a dining table

Table Mountain

Cape Town's flat-topped icon, one of the oldest mountains on Earth

Uluru (Ayers Rock)

A sacred monolith that changes color at sunset in the Australian outback

Half Dome

Yosemite's iconic granite monolith with one sheer face

El Capitan

The world's most famous big wall, a vertical granite monolith

K2

The 'Savage Mountain,' the world's second highest and most dangerous peak

Nanga Parbat

The 'Killer Mountain' with the tallest mountain face on Earth

Lhotse

The world's fourth-highest peak, connected to Everest by a ridge

Makalu

The world's fifth-highest peak, shaped like a four-sided pyramid

Cho Oyu

The 'easiest' 8,000-meter peak, the world's sixth highest

Torres del Paine

Three granite towers rising from the Patagonian steppe