Oct 01 2024
Rigi Kulm 🏔️ Overview Rigi Kulm is the highest summit of the Rigi massif in Central Switzerland and one of the country’s most celebrated panoramic mountains. Rising to 1,797.2 meters (5,896 feet), the summit stands above a remarkable landscape of lakes, rolling foothills, alpine pastures, forests, and the higher ranges of the Swiss Alps. Its …
Sep 16 2024
Mount Kenya 🏔️ Overview Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest mountain in Africa, surpassed only by Mount Kilimanjaro in neighboring Tanzania. Its highest summit, Batian, rises to 5,199 meters (17,057 feet), while the nearby peaks of Nelion and Point Lenana create one of the most dramatic high-altitude skylines on the …
Sep 15 2024
Pyramid Peak Pyramid Peak is one of the most recognizable mountains in California’s Desolation Wilderness, rising dramatically above the forests and granite basins west of Lake Tahoe. At just under 10,000 feet, it is the highest point in Desolation Wilderness and one of the most prominent summits in the Crystal Range of the Sierra Nevada. …
Sep 09 2024
Buochserhorn 🏔️ Overview Buochserhorn is a distinctive 1,806-meter mountain rising above Lake Lucerne in the canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland. Although modest in elevation compared with the glacier-covered giants farther south, its isolated position, steep green slopes, and remarkably open summit make it one of Central Switzerland’s rewarding panoramic hiking mountains. The Swiss Alpine Club describes …
Sep 05 2024
🏔️ Overview Mount Steele is one of the great ice-covered giants of the Saint Elias Mountains in southwestern Yukon, Canada. Rising to a traditionally quoted elevation of 16,644 feet (5,073 meters), it ranks as the fifth-highest mountain in Canada, behind Mount Logan, Mount Saint Elias, Mount Lucania, and King Peak. The mountain stands deep within …
Sep 04 2024
🏔️ Overview Mount Wood is a massive, glacier-covered peak in the Saint Elias Mountains of southwestern Yukon, Canada. Rising to roughly 15,880 feet, it belongs to the extraordinary cluster of high mountains protected within Kluane National Park and Reserve, a landscape dominated by enormous icefields, remote valleys, and some of the highest summits in North …
Sep 03 2024
Mount Slaggard 🏔️ Overview Mount Slaggard is a massive, glacier-covered mountain in the Saint Elias Mountains of southwestern Yukon, Canada. Rising to 4,742 meters (15,557 feet), it belongs to the extraordinary concentration of high peaks protected within Kluane National Park and Reserve. Despite ranking among Canada’s highest mountains, Mount Slaggard remains far less famous than …
Sep 02 2024
Ras Dashen Ras Dashen, also known as Ras Dejen, rises above the spectacular highlands of northern Ethiopia as the highest mountain in the country. Its summit stands within the Simien Mountains, a landscape of enormous escarpments, deeply cut valleys, high plateaus, and rugged volcanic peaks. Unlike the glacier-covered summits of some of Africa’s other great …
Sep 01 2024
Mount Patterson 🏔️ Overview Mount Patterson is the highest mountain in California and Nevada’s remote Sweetwater Mountains, rising above the Great Basin just east of the Sierra Nevada. Its broad, pale-colored summit reaches approximately 11,675 feet (3,559 meters) according to modern LiDAR-based measurements, making it one of the highest major summits in this part of …
Aug 31 2024
Mount Sill is one of the great high summits of California’s Sierra Nevada, rising above the spectacular Palisades near the eastern edge of Kings Canyon National Park. Surrounded by jagged ridges, alpine lakes, lingering snowfields, and the Palisade Glacier, the mountain occupies one of the most dramatic alpine settings in California. Modern Peakbagger data places …
