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K2
8,611 metres (28,251 feet)
K2 is the second highest mountain on Earth, located in the Karakoram segment of the Himalayan range located in Pakistan. At 8,611 metres , there is only one third as much oxygen available to a climber on the summit of K2 as there is at sea level.
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Kangchenjunga
8,586 metres (28,169 feet)
Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world with an altitude of 8,586 metres after Mount Everest and K2. It is located on Nepal's eastern border with the state of Sikkim in India. Kangchenjunga translated means "The Five Treasures of Snows", as it contains five peaks, four of them over 8,450 metres.
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Lhotse
8,516 metres (27,939 feet)
Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. In addition to the main summit at 8,516 metres above sea level, Lhotse Middle is 8,414 metres and Lhotse Shar is 8,383 metres. It is located at the border between China and Nepal.
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Makalu
8,462 metres (27,765 feet)
Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world and is located 22 km east of Mount Everest, at the border between China and Nepal. Makalu is an isolated peak whose shape is a four-sided pyramid. Rising just north of the higher summit, separated by a narrow saddle, is Chomo Lonzo a subsidiary peak of Makalu.
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Cho Oyu
8,201 metres (26,906 feet)
Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. Cho Oyu lies in the Himalaya and is 20 km west of Mount Everest, at the border between China and Nepal. Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan.
Cho Oyu was first climbed on October 19, 1954 via the northwest ridge by Herbert Tichy, Joseph Joechler and Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama of an Austrian expedition.
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Dhaulagiri
8,167 metres (26,794 feet)
Dhaulagiri is the seventh highest mountain in the world and is located in the Dhaulagiri Himal,
a subrange of the Himalaya in north central Nepal.
Dhaulagiri means "White Mountain".
The Dhaulagiri massif contains the following peaks over 7,200 m:
Only the first two are ranked by elevation; the others have insufficient prominence to be considered separate mountains.
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Manaslu
8,156 metres (26,758 feet)
Manaslu is the eighth highest mountain in the world, located in the Nepalese Himalayas. Manaslu is derived from the Sanskrit word Manasa and is translated as "Mountain of the Spirit".
Manaslu was first climbed on May 9, 1956 by Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu of a Japanese expedition.
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Annapurna
8,091 metres (26,545 feet)
Annapurna is a series of peaks in the Himalaya, a 55-km-long massif whose highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8,091 m, making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the 14 "eight-thousanders". It is located east of a great gorge cut through the Himalaya by the Kali Gandaki river, which separates it from the Dhaulagiri massif.
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