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12 Comments on “What Is The Second Highest Mountain On Earth?”

1. Mr. Boof
   July 14th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

   K-4, I believe it’s in Tibet.

2. Krysha E
   July 14th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

   K2 is the second highest mountain on Earth, located in the Karakoram segment of the Himalayan range. Standing at 8,611 metres, K2 takes second place only to Mount Everest.

3. JING
   July 14th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

   Actually, this is a hard question to answer because it all depends on definitions. If you want the tallest peak from base to peak, is it still Mount Everest? What does “highest” mean?
   Wikipedia lists K2’s height as 8,611 metres (28,251 feet). A few years, ago Mount Everest’s height was revised to be 29,035 feet (8850 meters), although for a while it was thought that K2 was taller than Mount Everest (see references). By this measure, K2 is the 2nd highest peak.
   However, if one wants to consider mountains that extend from the sea floor, like Hawaii, the tallest peak in the Hawaii islands is NOT even Mauna Loa, as some have said here.
   The island of Hawaii consists of 5 separate peaks from 5 separate volcanoes. The tallest is Mauna Kea, which is 350 feet, or 107 meters taller than Mauna Loa, which is “only” 4,170 meters (13,680 feet) above sea level. One of attached sources claims that it takes 4,572 meters (15,000 feet) to reach sea level from the sea floor in the Hawaiian area. This would give Mauna Loa a total height of 8742 meters, and Mauna Kea a total height of 8849 meters. This would make Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea still shorter than Mount Everest. This would also make Mauna Kea the 2nd highest peak on earth.
   However, another reference below gives the depth of the ocean in the Hawaiian island area as 16,400 ft (5,000 m), to give a total height of Mauna Loa of 9170 meters, and Mauna Kea a height of 9277 meters. This would make Mauna Loa the 2nd highest peak.
   However, the weight of the Hawaiian islands has depressed the sea floor, and there is a large amount of material that some identify as part of the mountain below the sea floor as well (as much as 8000 meters). So some might even add this figure to the overall height of the peaks (see reference). This would make Mauna Loa the 2nd highest peak.
   Another method of deciding on which is the tallest mountain is to look at which peak is the farthest from the earth’s center. This is because of the earth’s equatorial bulge (the earth is not a sphere, but roughly an oblate speroid). Using this technique, the 6267 meter peak of Chimborazo in Ecuador in the Andes is the tallest. Chimaborazo is 6,384,404 meters away from the center of the earth, and Mt. Everest is 6,381,670 meters away from the center of the earth. This would make Mount Everest the 2nd highest peak, possibly.
   Mount Lamlam in Guam is only 406 meters above sea level, but the ocean bed nearby is 10,924 m below sea level because of the Marianas trench. This would make Mount Lamlam the tallest mountain on earth, and possibly Mauna Kea the 2nd highest mountain or some other neighboring peak.
   By one reference, tallest and highest are different measures.
   Tallest: the top is the furthest away from the base. Highest: the top is the furthest away from sea level.
   On looking at some dictionaries, I am not sure these are universally accepted definitions.
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   Addenda:
   By comparsion, Olympus Mons in Mars is almost 27,000 meters high.
   Some estimate that the Alghenian mountain range at one time exceeded the Himalayas in height (see reference).

4. hound9_4
   July 14th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

   K-2. and its in pakistan.

5. student_
   July 14th, 2009 at 9:05 pm

   K2 and its in pakistan near china border

6. Umar Khan
   July 14th, 2009 at 9:45 pm

   Rockey Moutains{ pikes peak I think}

7. safety expert
   July 14th, 2009 at 10:11 pm

   Everest is the second biggest mountain in the world. But the the biggest above sea level.
   Mana Loa, ie Hawai, is the largest mountain/volcanoe in the world but is not even a mountain above sea level.

8. shrimpdo
   July 14th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

   The second highest peak is Mt. Everest in the Himalayas, the first is underwater in the Pacific Ocean.
   That should be your next question…

9. curious dog
   July 14th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

   Second highest is K2 or Mount Godwin Austin. I think it too is in the alps, and is actually more dangerous and harder to climb than Everest.

10. calypsoc
    July 14th, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    The second highest mountain after Mt. Everest is K-2, also called Godwin Austin

11. -Teenage Hunk-
    July 14th, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    The second tallest peak is Mount Lamlam on the island of Guam

12. masterch
    July 14th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

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    List of highest mountains
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    Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountainThe following is a list of the world’s 100 highest mountains, all of which are located in Asia. Only those summits are included that, by an objective measure, may be considered individual mountains as opposed to subsidiary peaks.
    Contents [hide]
    1 Considerations
    2 Geographical distribution
    3 The list
    4 Notes
    5 External links
    6 Sources
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    Considerations
    The dividing line between a mountain with multiple peaks and separate mountains is not always clear (see Highest unclimbed mountain). A popular and intuitive way to distinguish mountains from subsidiary peaks is by their height above the highest saddle connecting it to a higher summit, a measure called topographic prominence or re-ascent (the higher summit is called the “parent peak”). A common definition of a mountain is a summit with 300 m prominence (1,000 ft; also 10 traditional rope lengths). Alternatively, a relative prominence (prominence/height) is used (usually 7-8%) to reflect that in higher mountain ranges everything is on a larger scale. The table below lists the highest 100 summits with at least 500 m prominence, approximating a 7% relative prominence. A drawback of a prominence-based list is that it may exclude well-known or spectacular mountains that happen to be connected via a high ridge to a taller summit, like the Eiger or Nuptse. A few such peaks and mountains with nearly sufficient prominence are included but not numbered in the list.
    It is very unlikely that all the heights given are correct to the nearest metre; indeed, problems of definition of sea level can arise when a mountain is remote from the sea. Different sources often differ by many metres, and the heights given below may well differ from those elsewhere in Wikipedia. As an extreme example, Ulugh Muztagh on the north Tibetan Plateau is often listed as 7,723-7,754 m, but appears to be only 6,973-6,987 m. Many mountains in the Karakoram differ by >100 m on different maps, while even extremely thorough current measurements of Mount Everest range from 8,844 to 8,850 m. These discrepancies serve to emphasise the uncertainties in the listed heights.
    Though some parts of the world, especially the most mountainous parts, have never been thoroughly mapped, it is unlikely that any mountains this high have been overlooked, also because satellites can be used to measure altitudes of otherwise inaccessible places. Still, heights and/or prominences may be revised, so that the order of the list may change and even “new” mountains could enter the list over time. To be safe, the list has been extended to include all 7,200m+ peaks.
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    Geographical distribution
    Most mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges, in the border regions of India, China, Pakistan and Nepal. In fact, all 7,000 m peaks in the world are located in Central Asia, in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m) on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in the West, Peak Pobeda (Jengish Chokusu, Tomur Feng) (7,439 m) on the Kyrgyzstan - Sinkiang border to the North, Gongga Shan (Minya Konka) (7,556 m) in Sichuan to the East, and Kabru (7,412 m) on the Sikkim - Nepal border to the South.
    The locations of the highest mountains are shown on the composite satellite image of High Asia below. The numbers refer to the ranking in the list. For clarity, lower peaks with labels overlapping higher peaks are left out of the main image. The boxed regions are those with the highest density of summits and are enlarged in two separate images to show all peaks.
    Location of peaks in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram
    Location of peaks in the Nepal Himalaya
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    The list
    Rank Mountain Height (m)[1] Height (ft) Range Region[2] Coordinates[3] Prominence (m)[4] Parent mountain[5] First ascent Ascents[6] (attempts)
    1 Mount Everest 8,848[7] 29,028 Khumbu Himalaya Nepal / Tibet 27°59′14″N, 86°55′31″E 8,848 none 1953 145 (121)
    2 K2 8,614 28,261 Baltoro Karakoram Pakistan / Sinkiang 35°52′57″N, 76°30′48″E 4,020 Mount Everest 1954 45 (44)
    3 Kangchenjunga 8,586 28,169 Kangchenjunga Himalaya Nepal / India 27°42′09″N, 88°08′49″E 3,922 Mount Everest 1955 38 (24)
    4 Lhotse 8,516 27,940 Khumbu Himalaya Nepal / Tibet 27°57′42″N, 86°55′59″E 610 Mount Everest 1956 26 (26)
    5 Makalu 8,485 27,838 Khumbu Himalaya Nepal / Tibet 27°53′21″N, 87°05′19″E 2,386 Mount Everest (Lhotse) 1955 45 (52)
    6 Cho Oyu 8,188 26,864 Khumbu Himalaya Nepal / Tibet 28°05′39″N, 86°39′39″E 2,340 Mount Everest 1954 79 (28)
    7 Dhaulagiri 8,167 26,795 Dhaulagiri Himalaya Nepal 28°41′45″N, 83°29′36″E 3,357 Mount Everest 1960 51 (39)
    8 Manaslu 8,163 26,781 Manaslu Himalaya Nepal 28°32′58″N, 84°33′39″E 3,092 Cho Oyu 1956 49 (45)
    9 Nanga Parbat 8,125 26,657 Nanga Parbat Himalaya Kashmir (Pakistan) 35°14′18″N, 74°35′22″E 4,608 Dhaulagiri 1953 52 (67)
    10 Annapurna I 8,091 26,545 Annapurna Himalaya Nepal 28°35′43″N, 83°49′11″E 2,984 Cho Oyu 1950 36 (47)
    11 Gasherbrum I 8,080 26,509 Baltoro Karakoram Pakistan / Sinkiang 35°43′27″N, 76°41′44″E 2,155 K2 1958 31 (16)
    12 Broad Peak 8,051 26,414 Baltoro Karakoram Pakistan / Sinkiang 35°48′38″N, 76°34′05″E 1,701 Gasherbrum I 1957 39 (19)
    13 Gasherbrum II 8,034 26,362 Baltoro Karakoram Pakistan / Sinkiang 35°45′27″N, 76°39′11″E 1,523 Gasherbrum I 1956 54 (12)
    14 Shishapangma 8,027 26,335 Langtang Himalaya Tibet 28°21′12″N, 85°46′43″E 2,897 Cho Oyu 1964 43 (19)
    15 Gyachung Kang 7,952 26,089 Khumbu Himalaya Nepal / Tibet 28°05′52″N, 86°44′47″E 700 Cho Oyu 1964 5 (3)
    Gasherbrum III 7,946 26,070 Baltoro Karakoram Kashmir (Pakistan) 35°45′34″N, 76°38′31″E 455 Gasherbrum II 1975 2 (2)
    16 Annapurna II 7,937 26,040 Annapurna Himalaya Nepal 28°32′03″N, 84°07′20″E 2,437 Annapurna I 1960 6 (19)
    17 Gasherbrum IV 7,932 26,024 Baltoro Karakoram Kashmir (Pakistan) 35°45′33″N, 76°36′57″E 725 Gasherbrum III 1958 4 (11)
    18 Himalchuli 7,893 25,896 Manaslu Himalaya Nepal 28°26′07″N, 84°38′24″E 1,633 Manaslu 1960 6 (12)
    19 Distaghil Sar 7,884 25,866 Hispar Karakoram Kashmir (Pakistan) 36°19′33″N, 75°11′18″E 2,525 K2 1960 3 (5)
    20 Ngadi Chuli 7,871 25,823 Manaslu Himalaya Nepal 28°30′12″N, 84°34′03″E 1,020 Manaslu 1970 2 (6)
    Nuptse 7,864 25,801 Khumbu Himalaya Nepal 27°58′02″N, 86°53′10″E 319 Lhotse 1961 5 (12)
    21 Khunyang Chhish 7,823 25,666 Hispar Karakoram Kashmir (Pakistan) 36°12′19″N, 75°12′28″E 1,765 Distaghil Sar 1971 2 (6)