The mountains are certainly one of the most interesting natural formations, the more beautiful the more impressive have always fascinated man groped pushing it impossible for the achievement of climbing the peaks.
1. Everest
At the top, and that peak, we find that with the Everest 8848 meters is the highest mountain in the world (not counting those submarines) and has been climbed before everyone else so far submitted (May 1953).
2. K2
Unique Mountain climbed for the first time by the Italians and unique mountain to never having been climbed in winter; K2 won the second place with 8611 meters. E ‘was climbed in 1954, a year before the Kanchenjunga. Apart from the Nanga Parbat is also the only one of these mountains doing not belong in whole or in part in Nepal.
3. Kanchenjunga
The bronze medal goes to the mountain with the name certainly more curious. With 8586 meters, located, this time, on the border between Nepal and Pakistan is the only one to keep up with the two tenors in this area.
4. Lhotse
The first of the mountains over 8500 meters on Lhotse is always located on the border between China and Nepal.Scalto a year after its predecessor has, in fact, 8516 meters.
5. Makalu
Staying at the border we find the Makalu towering over 200 meters on Cho Oyu. Touches, in fact, altitude 8463 meters scaled for the first time in 1955.
6. Cho Oyu
Rimannendo in Nepal, but the border with China is the first mountain over 8200 meters. It has 8201 meters and was scaled back in 1954!
7. Dhaulagiri
Four years after the Manaslu was the turn of Dhaulagiri, scaled by a team of Austrians, Germans, Swiss and Nepali which in 1960 reached the 8167 meters of the mountain that just four meters (just over the height of a ceiling) exceeds Manaslu.
8. Manaslu
Let’s go back to Nepal where there are about forty meters on (8163) Manaslu, scaled, in turn, to three years away from Nanga Parbat in 1956.
9. Nanga Parbat
Monte is located in Pakistan, Nanga Parbat 8125 meters altitude touches thus overcoming the Annapurna for only 34 yards! E ‘was climbed for the first time in 1953, three years after its predecessor in this top ten.
10. Annapurna
Everest and K2 surely know them but there are many other names really unusual peaks that reach record held by these two people, you know, are the highest mountains in the world. To know who I am, you just simply click on the tenth below!
