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NAQT Mountains
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On the border between Nepal and China and straddles the summit of the Himalayan peak , which, at a height of over 29,000 feet, is the tallest mountain in the world. | Mount Everest |
Qogir, Ketu, and Mount Godwin-Austen are other names for it, whose most common names come from the fact that it is the second-tallest mountain in the world. | K2 |
Formerly and often called Mount McKinley, it is the highest mountain in North America. | Denali |
he Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians is the location of it , the tallest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi. | Mount Mitchell |
Edward Compton and John Ruskin are among the artists inspired by it, which is renowned for its almost perfectly pyramidal shape. The mountain is on the border between Switzerland and Italy, near the Swiss town Zermatt | the Matterhorn |
The tallest mountain in Africa. It is notable for also being the tallest mountain that is not part of a mountain range, having been formed by a now-extinct volcano. | Mount Kilimanjaro, |
The second-tallest mountain in Africa, which shares its name with the country in which it is located. British geographer and political theorist Halford Mackinder led the first group to ascend the peak. | Mount Kenya |
The tallest mountain in Japan. It is only about an hour’s drive from Tokyo, and has significance in the Shinto religion, being sacred to the goddess Sengen-Sama. | Mount Fuji |
The subduction of the Nazca Plate formed it, the highest point in the Southern Hemisphere. It is near the city Mendoza in Argentina. | Mount Aconcagua |