How many 6,000 meter peaks are there in Asia? In the world?

9/16/2013 7:21:54 AM

Wolfram Alpha gives:

  • 19 peaks above 8000m
  • 95 peaks between 7000m and 8000m.

One of its sources, Peakware finds:

  • 20 peaks above 8000m.
  • 99 peaks between 7000 and 8000m,
  • 151 peaks between 6000m and 7000m,

For Asia only, it finds 94 peaks between 6000m and 7000m, the peaks above 7000m are all in Asia.

9/16/2013 4:54:09 AM

Many mountaineering agencies claim that there are 1310 peaks over 6000m in Nepal alone. Other agencies claim that there are thousands of such peaks in the world, meaning that no comprehensive list of peaks over 6000m probably exists. This makes sense, as peaks should intuitively follow some sort of power-law distribution, meaning that there should be much more peaks between 6000m and 7000m than between 7000m and 8000m.

Good sources are hard to find. A large part of the problem is that 6000m peaks are not really that significant in the Himalayas, where valleys can rise to over 5000m, and even passes can be over 6000m. To make the things worse, official Nepali records are generally not online. There is a list of 326 peaks in Nepal open for mountaineering, however, and most of the peaks seem to be over 6000m.

9/16/2013 2:51:39 AM

Depending on your definition, Wikipedia has a list of mountains by elevation.

Certainly according to that, there are 6000ers outside of the Andes, Himalaya and Alaska – including peaks in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tibet (regions outside of the Himalaya).

Summary:

  • 14 peaks over 8000m.
  • 93 peaks between 7000 and 8000m (meaning 107 peaks above 7000m)
  • 75 peaks between 6000m and 7000m (meaning 184 peaks above 6000m)

and it continues to list most of the smaller mountains around the world, although I know some of the 1000mish mountains in NZ are missing in the list (eg Mt Hutt, Mt Herbert).

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