Wouldn't it be nice to know the name of the highest mountain on each continent? Not entirely sure? Okay, let me help you...
Asia
Mount Everest (29,031.7 ft)
aka Sagarmatha aka Qomolangma
North America
Denali (20,194 ft)
aka Mount McKinley
South America
Africa
Antarctica
Mount Vinson (16,050 feet)
Europe
Mont Blanc (15,766 feet)
Australia
Mount Kosciuszko (7310 feet)
aka Kunama Namadgi
Majestic vistas!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite indie band!
DeleteI love mountains, living in a mountainous region. Here that Australian one would only qualify as a foothill. :)
ReplyDeleteFoothill to what? It's Australia's highest point, though tbh if you go there it scarcely even looks like a mountain, especially if you approach it along the ridge it sits on which people generally do and because there are pointier ones nearby with steeper approaches.
DeleteI think Margaret was referring to the elevation.
DeleteMagnificent, all of them!
ReplyDeleteThe Magnificent Seven!
DeleteHave a buddy who has climbed two of these. A friend celebrated his 70th birthday on the top of Kilimanjaro
ReplyDeleteI have seen two of them with my own eyes - Aconcagua and Mont Blanc.
DeleteBeautiful pictures! The Australian and Asian mountains have the same "aka", probably a copy & paste error?
ReplyDeleteSorry Meike - both akas were correct and I did not sneakily make an amendment.
DeleteOdd! I would not have expected both mountains have the same aka (probably their native names?), seen as they are on different continents.
DeleteOh sorry! You were right. Thanks. I am about to change it now.
DeleteAll so attractive in photos, and I did not know Europe's highest mountain, for some reason.
ReplyDeleteSo you are not wearing #47's change of name to Mount McKinley?
#47 can eat ****!
DeleteThat could have been a quiz......though I would have only got 4 of them!
ReplyDeleteYes. I missed an opportunity there!
DeleteThat is interesting, I think I heard last week that Mount Everest grows a quarter of an inch each year. You would think it would wear away from the wind buffeting it all the time.
ReplyDeleteIt grows because of the tectonic plates pushing against each other, forcing The Himalayas ever higher.
DeleteYou forgot to mention Mount Aintops in the Peak District.
ReplyDeleteHa-ha! Nice one!
DeleteI see we have the shortest of the highest mountains.
ReplyDeleteYou Aussies have made a mountain out of a molehill!
DeleteInteresting, some of the mountains have changed their names since I was at school! I'll try to remember these in case you use them as the subject of one of your Quizes.
ReplyDeleteThey are all magnificent and some of them I'd never even heard of, so, this was educational as well, thanks. My BIL owned a River Rafting Company by Denali and all the scenery looked beautiful, but, too Cold for this Desert Rat. Phoenix is surrounded by beautiful Mountains too, just not particularly high ones.
ReplyDeleteI have only seen two of those.
ReplyDeleteWay back in my school days, Denali was known as Mt. McKinley, named after President William McKinley. In 2015, the Secretary of the Interior announced that the name would be changed to Denali in all federal documents. On an Alaskan visit, President Obama announced the renaming of the mountain. President Trump signed an executive to change the name back to Mt. McKinley and the Department of the Interior has changed the name back to Mt. McKinley. Denali is a native name meaning "the high one" or "the great one" and is much more appropriate than after a president who never visited the territory and served 62 years before Alaska became the 49th state.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know and now I do. But will I remember? That's doubtful.
ReplyDeleteThe mountains get smaller as they go down your list . Kay climbed Kilimanjaro when she was a student and working in a Tanzanian Hospital
ReplyDeleteO the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
ReplyDeleteFrightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
come in handy on the next episode of "pointless", innit?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I enjoy reading climbing accounts but have no desire to climb anything steeper than the stairs.
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