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The ten highest peaks on Earth, in metres above sea level. Everest, at 8,849 m, is the highest mountain above sea level.

The Highest Mountains

The ten highest peaks on Earth, in metres above sea level

Everest, at 8,849 m, is the highest mountain above sea level. All ten here are over 8,000 m, and only fourteen mountains on Earth reach that.
They all stand in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges in Asia, around Nepal, China, India and Pakistan.
At those heights the air pressure is about a third of the pressure at sea level, so there is much less oxygen to breathe and climbers often carry extra.

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