The world's highest mountains

There is quite a lot of lists of the "world's highest mountains". Below 7500 m, most of them are not complete. I want to try to list the 7000 m summits as comprehensive as possible. My source is the very detailed "High Asia" by Jill Neate [1], which unfortunately is no more available.
Below 7000 m there are hardly reliable sources. The Andes' high 6000 m peaks can be given more or less comprehensively, but there are no sources for the 6000 m peaks of Asia.
For the mountains above 7000 m, during the summer of 2002 I cross-checked the data from "High Asia" with maps and other sources whereever possible; in particular I computed the gap height of most mountains.
The high mountains of the other ranges were added do these data. Now, the list contains all 7000 m peaks, all "Fourteeners" of U.S.A. and Canada, all 4000 m peaks of the Alps and practically all 6000 m peaks in the world (see explanations) and many "important" mountains that don't meet these criteria.
An overview map sketch is in progress; currently I check gap heights and try improve the data selection.
In this list, for Himalayas and Karakoram I use a simplified division into mountain groups. The groups used here are depicted in the 4 different map sketches which are linked to the table entries. For each summit, there is a link to Openstreetmap / Google Map: The longitude map shows all maps around the correspoding latitude, the region map shows all summits in the corresponding region of the world. Unfortunately, not all summits can be shown in one single map. Caution: Selecting "all mountains" and "any height" results in a list of more than 14000 entries! Loading the page can take while in this case.

No.	Name	Height	Remark	Country	Range	Map	Gap height	Category	open?	Map	Ref
Europe Caucasus
1	Mont Blanc	4810	45.832482 , 6.864232		Frankreich, Italien	Mont Blanc group	Série Bleue IGN 1:25 000	4697	2	1	Längengrad Region	W
Europe Asia Africa
1	Mount Everest	8850	27.988386 , 86.925499	older surveys 8846, 8837, 8848 Chomolungma, Sagarmatha	Nepal, China/Tibet	Khumbu Himalaya	Mount Everest 1:50000 Boston Museum of Science/SSAF	8850	1	5	Längengrad Region	M
2	K2	8611	35.88185 , 76.51379	Chogori	Pakistan, China	Baltoro Muztagh, Greater Karakoram	Karakoram Maps 1:200000 Sheet 3, Leomann Maps	4017	2	5	Längengrad Region	MW
3	Kongur	7719	38.596895 , 75.320728		China	Kongur Shan, Pamirs	Kongur Tagh - Muztag Ata 1:100000, The Map of Snow Mountains in China No. 4	3600	2	0	Längengrad Region	MW
4	Tirich Mir	7706	36.25538 , 71.841662		Pakistan	Hindukush	Koh-e-Keshnikan, Alpenvereinskarte 0/5	3910	2	0	Längengrad Region
5	Minya Konka	7556	29.5955 , 101.879528	Gongga Shan	China	Daxue Shan, Sichuan	Map of Glaciers of Mount Gongga 1:25 000, Zhonghua Printing House Shanghai	3642	2	5	Längengrad Region	MW
6	Jengish Chokusu (Pik Pobeda)	7439	42.03423 , 80.130909	Tomur Feng	Kyrgyzstan, China	Kokshal Tau East, Tien Shan	Alpenvereinskarte 0/15 Tien Shan 1:100 000	4148	2	5	Längengrad Region	W
Asia NorthAmerica SouthAmerica
1	Denali	6193	63.069704 , -151.004378	Mount McKinley	USA(Alaska)	Westcentral Alaska Range	Mount McKinley 1:50 000, Boston Museum of Science/SSAF	6193	1	5	Längengrad Region
2	Mount Logan	5959	60.567113 , -140.405484		Canada	Southern Icefield Ranges	USGS Maps 1:250 000	5250	2	5	Längengrad Region
3	Pico de Orizaba	5636	19.030498 , -97.269848	Citlatepetl	Mexico	Cordillera Neovolcánica East	Openstreetmap/Cycle Map	4922	2	0	Längengrad Region	PM
4	Mount Whitney	4418	36.57837 , -118.293511		USA	Sequoia Sierra Nevada	USGS Maps 1:24 000	3071	2	0	Längengrad Region	MP
5	Mount Elbert	4399	39.117838 , -106.445318		USA	Sawatch Range, Rocky Mountains	USGS Maps 1:250 000	2500	2	1	Längengrad Region	M
6	Mount Rainier	4392	46.852947 , -121.760424		USA	South Washington Cascades	USGS Maps 1:250 000	4026	2	0	Längengrad Region	MOP
NorthAmerica SouthAmerica Oceania
1	Cerro Aconcagua	6960	-32.653326 , -70.012664		Argentina	Anden Aconcagua	Aconcagua 1:50 000, American Alpine Club	6960	1	0	Längengrad Region
SouthAmerica Oceania Antarctica
1	Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya)	4884	-4.078889 , 137.159235		Indonesia	Pegunungan Nassau, New Guinea	Diercke Weltatlas	4884	1	5	Längengrad Region
2	Mauna Kea	4205	19.82067 , -155.46802		USA	Mauna Kea, Hawaii	USGS Maps 1:250 000	4205	2	0	Längengrad Region
Oceania Antarctica
1	Mount Vinson	4892	-78.525483 , -85.617147		Antarctica	Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains	USGS Maps 1:250 000	4892	1	5	Längengrad Region	W
2	Mount Kirkpatrick	4528	-84.32768 , 166.42459		Antarctica	Queen Alexandra Range, Transantarctic Mountains	USGS Maps 1:250 000	2601	2	0	Längengrad Region
3	Ice Shield High Point	4270	-82.48283 , 64.98885		Antarctica	Queen Maud Land	Antarctica Overview (GNC 26) Edition 7, 1:5 000 000	N/A	2	0	Längengrad Region
4	Mount Sidley	4181	-77.04014 , -126.07329		Antarctica	Executive Committee Range	USGS Maps 1:250 000	2517	2	0	Längengrad Region	M

Compiled by Hartmut Bielefeldt 2002-2016.
Principal sources:
[1] Jill Neate: "High Asia, an illustrated history of the 7,000 metre peaks", The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1989
[2] Ekkehard Radehose: "Traumberge Amerikas", Bergverlag Rother 1996, ISBN 3-7633-3006-2
[3] Hermann Kiendler: "Die Anden: Vom Chimborazo zum Marmolejo - alle 6000er auf einen Blick", Panico Alpinverlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-936740-36-3
[4] www.peaklist.org
[5] www.peakbagger.com
and the maps mentioned above.
Sources (Column "Source") for altitudes and gap heights:
[A] American Alpine Journal
[D] Annual books of Alpenverein
[E] own measurement
[G] Google Maps
[H] High Asia
[J] Himalayan Journal
[M] given map
[N] Tamotsu Nakamura: "East of the Himalaya. Alps of Tibet and Beyond Mountain Peak Maps", The Japanese Alpine Club 110th Anniversary Publication, 2016, ISBN 978-4-7795-0994-0
[O] Openstreetmap
[P] www.peakbagger.com
[S] SAC-Jahrbücher / Die Alpen
[V] Guide Vallot
[W] Wikipedia.org (DE or EN)
[1] Openandromaps
[2] Wikimapia.org
[*] altitude of gap can only be read with 100 m accuracy. The gap height therefore could be almost 100 m bigger. [?] gap height only estimated, no reliable sources available.

You can find additional explanations about the table in a separate window. There you find explanations of terms, information about the method used to compile the table, and a bit of statistics.

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Last update on 26 February 2023.