World's top 10 deadliest mountains: The summits most likely to kill you
From Everest to K2, these are the treacherous mountain peaks that claim more lives per climber than any other.
1) Annapurna I (Nepal)
The deadliest mountain in the world is a specific ascent of Annapurna, another peak in the Himalayas. The route is so deadly because of an extremely steep face.
Astonishingly, 58 people have died from just 158 attempts. It has the greatest fatality rate of any ascent in the world.
In October 2014 at least 43 people died in snowstorms and subsequent avalanches.
It was Nepal's deadliest trekking disaster.
2) K2 (Pakistan)
The second-highest mountain in the world, and the second deadliest: falling just 500 meters short of Everest, is K2. It's widely been described as one of the hardest to climb.
A total of 66 people have died from 284 attempts.
K2 is known as the Savage Mountain after climber George Bell said "It's a savage mountain that tries to kill you" after an expedition in the 1950s.Nana Par bat is the ninth highest in the world, and its southern side is what many call the tallest mountain face on the planet. The Rural Face rises 15,090 feet above its base.
This peak was the subject of German interest in the 1930s. When only Britain had access to Mt. Everest, German climbers saw Killer Mountain as the highest mountain reasonably scalable by climbers at the time. But that doesn’t mean it was easy.
Nana Par bat claimed 31 lives before it was conquered by Austrian Hermann Bull in 1953.
3) Nana Par bat (Pakistan)
The ninth-highest mountain in the world, Nana Par bat, has claimed 64 lives from an astonishingly low 287 attempts. It is the third most dangerous mountain in the entire world
4) Kangchenjunga (India)
The third-highest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga rises more than 8.5 kilometers above sea level. More than 40 climbers have died from 209 total ascents.
5) Manacle (Nepal)
The peak of Manuals in Nepal is the fifth most dangerous in the world, having claimed an astonishing 53 lives from 297 attempts.
6) Dhaulagiri I (Nepal)
Part of the Himalayas, the treacherous ascent of Dhaulagiri I has claimed 58 lives from more than 350 attempts.
7) Macau (Nepal)
Another of the peaks in the Himalayas, Macau is the fifth-highest mountain in the world and the seventh deadliest.
From 234 ascents, 26 people have died.
8) Gasherbrum 1 (Pakistan)
Also known as "K5", Gasherbrum 1 has claimed 25 lives from 265 total ascents.
9) Everest (China/Nepal)
The infamous Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, and one of the most climbed. But despite its popularity, Everest is still remarkably dangerous: At last count 8000ers.com had recorded 210 deaths from more than 3600 attempts on the summit.
10) Broad Peak (Pakistan/China)
Data from mountain climbing site 8000ers.com has put the world's mountain peaks in stark reality - not everyone who climbs always comes back.
Coming in at number 10 is Broad Peak in Pakistan, having recorded 19 deaths from almost 360 attempts.
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. A mountain differs from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is larger than a hill, typically rising at least 300 meters (1000 feet) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges.[1]
Mountains are formed through tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, [1] which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years.[2] Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers.[3]
High elevations on mountains produce colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the ecosystems of mountains: different elevations have different plants and animals. Because of the less hospitable terrain and climate, mountains tend to be used less for agriculture and more for resource extraction, such as mining and logging, along with recreation, such as mountain climbing and skiing.
The highest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest in the Himalayas of Asia, whose summit is 8,850 m (29,035 ft) above mean sea level. The highest known mountain on any planet in the Solar System is Olympus Mons on Mars at 21,171 m (69,459 ft).
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