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Top 10 highest mountains in the world

Mostly people know about the Mount Everest is highest peak in the world. It is a common knowledge and is not much of a secret. Do you know which is the world’s 5th or sixth highest peak? We can say that you probably don’t know about the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth highest peak in the world. I will tell you about all these questions and their answers. Kindly read this article till to end.

Mount Everest
Mount Everest is world’s highest peak. It is about 8848 meters high above from the sea level. It is eight time higher than the mountains in Wales Snowden. Everest is situated on the border between Tibet and Nepal. Sir Edmund Hillary was the first successful climber of Mount Everest and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
It is said that there are 200 dead bodies on the Mount Everest well preserved due to the coldest temperature.

K2
It is said that K2 is the second highest peak in the world. It is 8611 meters higher than the sea level. It is located on the border between Pakistan and China. The Chinese side is more dangerous and hazardous. It is said that there is one death of every four successful climbs on K2. Nobody can ascend K2 in winter due to its extremely cold temperature.


Kangchenjunga
It is considered the third highest mountain peak in the world. It is located on the border between India and Nepal. It has an elevation of 8586 meters. It is located 125 km from the Mount Everest and is second highest mountain in Himalayas. The first successful climb on this peak was done by Joe Brown and George Brand in 1955. 


Lhotse
Lhotse is the fourth highest peak in the world. Its elevation is 8516 meters. It is near the Mount Everest and it is forms part of the Mount Everest massif.  Its summit is located between the Khumbu region of Tibet and Nepal. A Swiss team made up of Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger was first climbed to Lhotse in 1956.


Makalu
Makalu is the fifth highest peak in the world with an elevation of 8485 meters. It is situated 19 km in south east on Mount Everest. It is located on the border between China and Nepal. It is notable peak due to its iconic pyramid shape. It was first summited successfully by Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy in 1955. An interesting fact about Makalu is that it is the most difficult peak for climbers due to its Knife-edge ridges and paint-filling steep sections.


Cho Oyu
Officially, Cho Oyu is the sixth highest peak in the world. Its elevation is about 8188 meters. Cho Oyu is considered as easiest mountain to climb due to its moderate slopes. It stands on the Nepalese-Chinese border. The first successful climb on the Cho Oyu was done by Austrians Joseph Jochler and Herbert Tichy in 1954.


Dhaulagiri
Dhaulagiri is 8167 meters high from the sea level. It is the seventh highest peak in the world located in Nepal. It was first summited by Swiss, Austrians and Nepalese effort in 1960. Dhaulagiri was considered as the world’s highest peak in 1808 in record books. When Kangchenjunga took the top spot in 1838, after this the Mount Everest was number one in 1858 officially.


Manaslu
Manaslu is officially considered the eighth highest peak in the world. It can be found in the west central part of the Nepal. It has a summit situated 8163 meters high from the sea level. The first successful ascent of Manaslu was done by Japanese climber Toshio Imanishi and Nepalese climber Sherpa Gyalzen Norbu in 1956. Japan claims that Manaslu as their own peak.


Nanga Parbat
Nanga parbat is the ninth highest peak in the world. Its summit is 8126 meters high from the sea level.  It is situated in Gilgit-Baltistan region. It is located at the westernmost point in the Himalayas. Hermann Buhl who was the part of Austrian German team become the first man to ascend Nanga Parbat in 1953. It is labeled as killer mountain due to its dangerous and horrible ups and downs.


Annapurna
It is actually a massif in the Himalayas comprising of 30 mountains over the 6000 meters. It is considered in the list of most dangerous mountains to climb due its extreme temperature and horrible and nail-like stones. Its elevation is about 8000 meters from the sea level.
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