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Mount Heha
Mount Heha, Burundi's highest named mountain at 2,670 m (some sources 2,684 m), a broad grassland summit in the Burundi Highlands near Mukike, about 20 km east of Lake Tanganyika, climbed as a guided hike.
Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Shaykh), 2,814 m Anti-Lebanon karst range at the Syria-Lebanon-Golan junction, highest in Syria, source of Jordan River snowmelt, occupied at its Syrian summit by Israel since December 2024.
Mount Herzl
Mount Herzl (Har Herzl, Har Hazikaron) is Jerusalem's hill holding Israel's national cemetery, military cemetery, National Memorial Hall, and Herzl Museum; Herzl's remains were reburied there in August 1949 under the 1949 Reburial Law.
Mount Hiei
Mount Hiei (比叡山, Hieizan) is a mountain northeast of Kyoto whose Enryaku-ji temple, founded by Saichō in 788, is called the mother mountain of Japanese Buddhism.
Mount Holland
Mount Holland is an integrated lithium project in Western Australia's Wheatbelt, owned equally by Wesfarmers and SQM, mining the Earl Grey spodumene deposit and refining lithium hydroxide near Perth.
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College, founded in 1837 as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, is a private women's liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and the oldest continuing women's college.
Mount Hood
Mount Hood is Oregon's highest peak (3,426 m) and an active andesite-dacite stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 80 km east of Portland, erupting episodically for 500,000 years, most recently about 1781 and reported in 1865, with Very High USGS threat rating.
Mount Horeb
Mount Horeb (Hebrew Ḥorev) is the biblical mountain of God where Moses saw the burning bush and received the Tablets of the Law; its actual location is unknown.
Mount Hua (华山)
Mount Hua (华山, Huashan), the Western Peak of China's Five Great Mountains, in Huayin, Shaanxi near Xi'an; a Daoist sacred granite massif whose South Peak reaches 2,154.9 m, famed for the Changkong Plank Walk, Xiyue Temple, Chen Tuan's Huashan Daoist lineage, and the 1556 Huaxian earthquake on its piedmont fault.
Mount Igueldo Amusement Park
Mount Igueldo Amusement Park (Parque de Atracciones Monte Igueldo) is a 1911 vintage park on Mount Igueldo, San Sebastián, reached by the 1912 Basque Country funicular, home of the 1928 Montaña Suiza, the world's oldest operating steel roller coaster, declared a Monumental Site in 2014.
Mount Isa
Mount Isa: outback mining city in north-west Queensland on the Leichhardt River, on Kalkadoon land, founded after John Campbell Miles' 1923 silver-lead discovery; Mount Isa Mines, copper closure in 2025, rodeo, population about 19,000.
Mount Jackson (landform)
Mount Jackson, Antarctic Peninsula peak in Palmer Land's Welch Mountains, 3,184 m with 2,187 m prominence; first ascent 1964 by BAS; named for Andrew Jackson; once BAT's highest peak before Mount Hope.
Mount Judi
Mount Judi (Cudi Dağı, al-Jūdiyy), a 2,114 m massif in Şırnak Province, southeastern Turkey near the Tigris, named in Quran 11:44 as Noah's ark resting place, distinct from Mount Ararat.
Mount Kailash (གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ)
Mount Kailash (གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, Gang Rinpoche) is a sacred 6,600-meter peak in Ngari, Tibet, holy to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Bon, never climbed, circled by a 52 km kora, and ringed by the sources of the Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, and Karnali.
Mount Kaplan
Mount Kaplan is the highest peak, at about 4,230 m, of the Hughes Range in Antarctica's Queen Maud Mountains, photographed from the air by Richard E. Byrd in 1929.
Mount Katahdin
Mount Katahdin, Maine's highest mountain (5,268 ft per USGS; NPS lists 5,269 ft) in Baxter State Park; Baxter Peak is the northern terminus of the 2,197.9-mile Appalachian Trail; name means "Greatest Mountain" in Penobscot.
Mount Katanglad
Mount Katanglad is a name used in the Peaklist and Peakbagger databases for a peak in the Kitanglad Range of Bukidnon province, Mindanao, Philippines, probably Mount Dulang-dulang.
Mount Kellett Capital Partners
Mount Kellett Capital Partners, or Mount Kellett Capital Management, was a New York investment firm specializing in distressed debt, founded by ex-Goldman Sachs partners in 2008.
Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya (Batian 5,199 m) is Africa's second-highest peak, an extinct volcano on the equator with 12 rapidly receding glaciers, a 1949 national park, 1978 biosphere reserve, and 1997 UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest, a serial UNESCO World Heritage site (inscribed 1997) in central Kenya protecting Mount Kenya, Africa's second-highest peak at 5,199 m, its glaciers, afro-alpine flora, and the Lewa–Ngare Ndare lowland extension.
Mount Kenya-Lewa Biosphere Reserve
Mount Kenya-Lewa Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 1978 in central Kenya, covers 568,553 ha around 5,199 m Mount Kenya, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, and Ngare Ndare Forest Reserve.
Mount Kerinci
Mount Kerinci (Gunung Kerinci), 3,800-3,805 m, is Indonesia's highest volcano and Sumatra's highest peak, an active andesitic stratovolcano on the Jambi-West Sumatra border with frequent moderate eruptions since 1838.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro, a volcanic massif in Tanzania with cones Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is Africa's highest peak at 5,895 m and the world's tallest free-standing mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage site with retreating equatorial glaciers.
Mount Kinabalu
Mount Kinabalu (Gunung Kinabalu) is a 4,095 m granite peak in Sabah, Borneo, the highest between the Himalayas and New Guinea, center of Kinabalu Park, a 75,370 ha UNESCO World Heritage Site famed for 5,000-6,000 plant species.
Mount Kinka Squirrel Village
Mount Kinka Squirrel Village (ぎふ金華山リス村) is a 1965 walk-in squirrel enclosure atop Mt. Kinka in Gifu, Japan, Japan's first squirrel village, where visitors hand-feed about 40 free-roaming Taiwanese squirrels for 200 yen.
Mount Kirkpatrick
Mount Kirkpatrick, Queen Alexandra Range, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: about 4,528 m, highest Transantarctic summit, named in 1908 by Shackleton's expedition, and site of the Cryolophosaurus dinosaur quarry.
Mount Kirkwood
Mount Kirkwood (Monte David, Monte Goyena) is a 460 m mountain 3 mi west of Entrance Point on southern Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; charted 1828-31 by Foster, named 1950 for Cdr. Henry Kirkwood, RN.
Mount Kisco, New York
Mount Kisco is a coterminous village and town in northern Westchester County, New York, incorporated as a village in 1875 and independent since 1978. Population about 10,959 (2020); Metro-North Harlem Line station; commercial hub of northern Westchester.
Mount Kosciuszko
Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 m, is mainland Australia's highest peak, in the NSW Snowy Mountains within Kosciuszko National Park; named in 1840 by Strzelecki after Tadeusz Kościuszko, resembling the Kraków mound.
Mount Kulal Biosphere Reserve
Mount Kulal Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere reserve (nominated 1978) in Marsabit County, northern Kenya: an extinct volcano with mist forest, endemic Kulal white-eye and chameleon, community-managed, Melina Mercouri Prize 2025.