As soon as we think of the tallest mountains in the world, we think of mountains above 8,000 meters. Everyone knows the tallest mountain, but only few know the five tallest. To know about the five tallest mountains in the world (नेपाली : बिश्वका पाँच अग्ला हिमाल ), read this entire page…
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5. At number five we have;
Makalu
Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world. Its height is measured at 8,485 meters (27,838 feet). This mountain belongs to the Mahalangur snow range which is 19 km from Everest. It is in the southeast.
Located on the border of Nepal and China, this mountain is 8,000 meters high and has the shape of a four-sided pyramid. Along with Makalu, there is also Makalu 2, 2 km northwest of Makalu, which has a height of 7,678 meters.
Makalu was first stepped on by an American group led by Riley Keegan in 1954 when the group reached 7,100 meters during an attempt, but were forced to turn back disheartened by a storm. The first successful ascent was on May 15, 1955 by Lionel Terrey and Jean Couzy, who were part of a French group led by Jean Franco.
Franco, Guido Magnone, and Galjen Norbu achieved success the next day, followed by Jean Bouvier, Serge Coupe, Pierre Leroux, and Andre Vialatte achieved success on 17 May.
4. At number four we have;
Lhotse
Lhotse is the fourth tallest mountain in the world. Its height is 8,516 meters (27,940 feet). Everest and Lhotse are connected to each other. Lhotse means Southern Peak in Tibetan language. This mountain is located on the border of Tibet and Khumbu part of Nepal.
The first attempt to climb Lhotse was made in 1955 by the International Glacier Expedition led by Norman Dyhernforth. After that, the successful ascent of Lhotse was done on May 18, 1956 by the Swiss group of Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger. Lhotse was not climbed in 2014, 2015, 2016 due to various incidents and then in 2017 it was successfully climbed again.
3. At number three we have;
Kanchenjunga
Kanchenjunga is the third tallest mountain in the world. Its height is 8,586 meters (28,169 feet). This mountain in the Kanchenjunga snow range is surrounded by Tamor from the west, Lonak Chu and Jongsang la from the north and the Teesta River from the east. An important part of this mountain on the border of Nepal and India is located in the Taplejung district of Nepal.
Even till 1852, Kanchenjunga was considered the tallest mountain in the world, but according to various searches and researches and the measurement of Great Trigonometrical Survey in 1849, Everest, which was called the 15th peak at that time, started to be considered as the tallest mountain.
It was climbed on May 25, 1955 by Joe Brown and George Band who were part of the 1955 British Kanchenjunga expedition. Among the four routes to climb Kanchenjunga, three on the Nepalese side are used a lot. So far only three ascents have been made from the Indian route and after that the Indian government has closed that route since 2000.
2. At number two we have;
K2
K2 is the second tallest mountain in the world. Its height is 8,611 meters (28,251 feet). This mountain under the Karakoram ice range is located on the border between China and Pakistan, of which the main part is in Pakistan.
Attempts to climb this mountain started in 1902, but success was achieved only in 1954. This success was achieved by Italian climbers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. In January 2021, K2 became the last mountain to be climbed above 8,000 meters in winter when a Nepali team led by Nirmal Purja and Mingma Gyaljen Sherpa managed to reach the summit of K2.
K2 is the only mountain above 8,000 meters that has not yet been climbed from the east. This mountain is considered very dangerous and is also known as the wild mountain. By 2021, a total of 377 people have successfully climbed it and 91 people have died.
1. At number one we have;
Sagarmatha (Everest)
And finally at number one we have the world’s tallest mountain Sagarmatha also known as Everest whose height was 8,848 meters but in 2020 a joint team of China and Nepal measured its new height at 8,848.86 meters (29,031.7 feet). Everest means goddess of the sky or head of the big sky. This mountain under the Mahalangur ice range is located on the border of Nepal and China.
There are two main routes to climb Mount Everest. One is the southeast route which is through Nepal and the other is the northern route which goes through China. There are many people who climb the route of Nepal.
The first attempt was made by a British climber, that too through the northern route, because at that time Nepal did not allow foreigners to climb the mountain. No matter how hard the British tried from the northern side, they could not.
The 1924 climbing expedition produced a mystery that remains a mystery to this day. George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made a final attempt in June but never returned, and whether or not they succeeded in the climb is still a mystery.
Tenzing Norge and Edmund Hillary successfully climbed Mount Everest in 1953. Even before this, in 1952, Tenzing Norgay reached 8,569 meters under the Swiss expedition. Likewise, a Chinese group of climbers from the north, including Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo and Qu Yinhua, made a successful ascent on May 25, 1960.
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