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The world’s 14 highest mountains tower more than 8'000 metres above sea level. The Eight Thousanders all lie in the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges in central Asia.
Eight of the world’s highest fourteen peaks are in Nepal. Three of them, Annapurna I (8'091 m), Dhaulagiri (8'167 m) and Manaslu (8'163 m) are situated within Nepal. Kangchenjunga (8'586 m) borders to India and Everest (8'848 m), Lhotse (8'516 m), Cho Oyu (8'201 m) and Makalu (8'485 m) borders to China.
Nepal 2003
Everest, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu
Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Annapurna I
K2 (8'611 m), Gasherbrum I (8'080 m), Gasherbrum II (8'034 m) and Broad Peak (8'051 m) are situated at the Pakistan-China border. Nanga Parbat (8'126 m) is located within Pakistan and Shisha Pangma (8'027 m) within China.
The Seven
Summits
Climbing the Seven Summits or the Volcanic Seven Summits is a mountaineering challenge.
Mountaineers
on
postage stamps
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.
Mount Fuji
on
postage stamps
Worldwide there have been issued more than 400 postage stamps of Japanese's highest peak Mt. Fuji. There are even listed Katsushika Hokusai's "The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji".
Himalaya
in Nepal
postage Stamps
author: Binod K. Shresta
The
Matterhorn
The Matterhorn has become an iconic emblem of the Swiss Alps and the European Alps in general.
The Sacred
Mountains
of China
The Sacred Mountains of China are divided into two groups, one associated with Taoism and the other with Buddhism.