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33 verified summits and active volcanoes spanning every continent. The catalog includes all Seven Summits (Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson Massif, Puncak Jaya), the most iconic Himalayan peaks (K2, Kangchenjunga, Mount Ama Dablam), the Alpine giants (Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Zugspitze), Mount Fuji, the holy mountains around Mecca and Medina (Jabal Al-Nour, Jabal Arafat, Jabal Thawr, Jabal Uhud), Mount Sinai (Jabal Musa) and Mount Ararat, plus living volcanoes Etna (current summit at La Voragine, 3,403 m), Vesuvius, Cotopaxi, Popocatépetl, Teide and Piton de la Fournaise. Each pin targets the precise summit (or current highest crater for active volcanoes).
Aconcagua in the Andes of Argentina is the highest mountain in the Americas and the highest outside Asia, at 6,961 meters. Its non-technical normal route has made it a popular high-altitude objective.
Aoraki / Mount Cook in New Zealand's Southern Alps, at 3,724 meters, is the country's highest mountain. The Māori name means 'cloud piercer.'
Cotopaxi in the Andes of Ecuador is a 5,897-meter active stratovolcano, one of the world's most iconic still-erupting cones. Its near-perfect cone, capped with a glacier despite sitting nearly on the equator, dominates the central highlands.
Denali (formerly Mount McKinley) in Alaska is the highest mountain in North America at 6,190 meters. Its sheer vertical relief from base to summit is greater than that of Everest.
Mount Elbrus (Эльбрус), in the Caucasus of southern Russia, is the highest mountain in Europe at 5,642 meters. The dormant volcano has two summits and is one of the Seven Summits.
Fitz Roy (Cerro Chaltén) in Patagonia, on the Argentina-Chile border, is one of the most technically difficult mountains in the world. Its sheer 3,405-meter granite spires are featured in the Patagonia clothing logo.
Jabal Al-Nour ('Mountain of Light', جبل النور) outside Mecca contains the Cave of Hira, where the Prophet Muhammad received the first revelations of the Qur'an in 610 CE.
Jabal Arafat (جبل عرفات), the Mount of Mercy outside Mecca, is where the Prophet Muhammad delivered the Farewell Sermon and where every Hajj pilgrim must spend a defining afternoon of standing in supplication on the 9th of Dhu al-Hijjah.
Jabal Musa (Mount Sinai, جبل موسى) in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula is, by Abrahamic tradition, the mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Pilgrims still climb its 2,285 meters at night to watch the sunrise from the summit.
Jabal Sawda (جبل سودة) in southwestern Saudi Arabia is, at roughly 3,000 meters, the highest point in the country. Cool summers and mist make the area a popular Saudi summer retreat.
Jabal Thawr (جبل ثور) south of Mecca houses the Cave of Thawr, where the Prophet Muhammad and Abu Bakr hid for three days during the Hijra to Medina in 622 CE.
Jabal Uhud (جبل أحد) just north of Medina is the site of the Battle of Uhud (625 CE) between the early Muslim community and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Prophet Muhammad praised it as 'a mountain that loves us and we love it.'
K2 (چھوغوری) on the China-Pakistan border is the second-highest mountain on Earth at 8,611 meters and widely considered the most dangerous to climb. The Karakoram peak is also called the 'Savage Mountain.'
Kangchenjunga (कञ्चनजङ्घा) on the India-Nepal border is the third-highest mountain in the world at 8,586 meters. Its name means 'The Five Treasures of the High Snow,' referring to its five peaks.
Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, at 5,895 meters, is the highest peak in Africa and the world's tallest free-standing mountain. Its glaciers, immortalised by Hemingway, have receded dramatically since 1900.
The Matterhorn (Cervino) on the Switzerland-Italy border is one of the most photographed mountains in the world. Its almost-symmetrical 4,478-meter pyramidal peak was first climbed by Edward Whymper's party on 14 July 1865; four of the seven climbers in the team fell to their deaths on the descent, making it one of the most tragic events in early alpinism.
Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) on the French-Italian border, at 4,805 meters, is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe. Its name, 'White Mountain', refers to the perpetual snow on its summit.
Mount Ama Dablam ('Mother's Necklace', अमा दब्लम) in Nepal's Khumbu region rises to 6,812 meters above the trail to Everest Base Camp. It is one of the most photogenic peaks in the Himalayas.
Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı) in eastern Turkey, at 5,137 meters, is the highest peak in the country and a sacred mountain in Armenian tradition, biblically associated with Noah's Ark.
Mount Etna on the east coast of Sicily is the tallest active volcano in Europe at a current height of around 3,403 m, also the tallest peak in Italy south of the Alps. The summit hosts five active craters (Voragine, Bocca Nuova, Northeast Crater, and the two Southeast Craters) which constantly reshape the skyline; coordinates point to La Voragine, currently the highest. UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013.
Mount Everest (सगरमाथा / Chomolungma) on the Nepal-Tibet border is the highest mountain on Earth, with a summit elevation of 8,848.86 meters. It has been climbed by thousands of mountaineers since Hillary and Tenzing's first ascent in 1953.
Mount Fuji (富士山) is Japan's highest mountain at 3,776 meters. The almost-perfectly symmetrical volcano is sacred in Shinto belief and an enduring subject of Japanese art and poetry.
Mount Kenya (Kĩrĩnyaga) at 5,199 meters is the second-highest mountain in Africa, sitting just 16.5 km south of the equator. Coordinates point to Batian (5,199 m), the highest of the three main glaciated peaks, with its sister summit Nelion (5,188 m) about 250 m to the east-southeast and the easier trekking peak Point Lenana (4,985 m) further away. The whole massif is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Mount Olympus (Όλυμπος), at 2,917 meters, is the highest mountain in Greece and, in classical mythology, the home of the twelve Olympian gods.
Mount Vesuvius (Vesuvio) on Italy's Bay of Naples is among the most studied active volcanoes in continental Europe and the only one on the European mainland to have erupted in the last hundred years (in 1944). Its 79 CE eruption buried Pompeii and Herculaneum and remains one of history's most famous natural disasters.
Piton de la Fournaise on the French overseas island of La Réunion is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, erupting dozens of times since the 17th century. The 2,632-meter shield volcano sits at the heart of a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Popocatépetl is an active 5,393-meter stratovolcano southeast of Mexico City. Its name means 'smoking mountain' in Nahuatl, and it has erupted dozens of times since the Spanish conquest.
Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid) in the Sudirman Range of Papua, Indonesia, is the highest summit in Oceania at 4,884 meters. Despite being just south of the equator, it is permanently glaciated.
Table Mountain in Cape Town is a flat-topped massif overlooking the city. Its iconic plateau and surrounding biosphere are recognized as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature.
Teide on Tenerife in the Canary Islands is Spain's highest peak at 3,718 meters and, measured from the ocean floor, the third-tallest volcano on Earth.
Toubkal (توبقال) in the High Atlas of Morocco, at 4,167 meters, is the highest mountain in North Africa and an accessible high-altitude objective for trekkers.
Vinson Massif is the highest mountain in Antarctica at 4,892 meters. Located in the Sentinel Range about 1,200 km from the South Pole, it is the most remote of the Seven Summits.
The Zugspitze, on the Germany-Austria border, is the highest peak in Germany at 2,962 meters. Reachable by cable car, it offers views over four countries on clear days.