Mountains of Asia

Huatou Jian

Huatou Jian (铧头尖) is an ultra-prominent mountain peak, about 4,750 to 4,791 meters high, standing in the Xiaoxiang Range of the Daliang Mountains in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, southwestern China.

Isarog

Mount Isarog: andesitic stratovolcano, 1,966 m, Camarines Sur, SE Luzon, Philippines; PHIVOLCS potentially active, GVP 273042, last eruption 3500 BCE, Holocene pyroclastic flows and a 6–8 km³ debris avalanche.

Ismoil Somoni Peak

Ismoil Somoni Peak, formerly Stalin Peak and Communism Peak (Пик Коммунизма), is Tajikistan's highest mountain at 7,495 m in the Pamirs' Academy of Sciences Range, first climbed in 1933 by Yevgeniy Abalakov and a Snow Leopard challenge peak.

Iwatesan

Iwatesan (岩手山), Mount Iwate, an active 2,038 m stratovolcano in Iwate Prefecture, Honshu, Japan, called Nanbu Fuji; twin Nishi-Iwate and Higashi-Iwate cones, seven sector collapses, historic eruptions in 1686, 1732, and 1919, and 1998 unrest.

Jabal Jihaf

Jabal Jihaf (جبل جحاف, also Jabal Jahaf) is a 2,402 m mountain in Jahaf District, Dhale Governorate, Yemen, near Dhale; a rocky massif with summit cultivation described in the 1905-1908 British Aden Protectorate military report.

Jabal Sawda

Jabal Sawda (جَبَل ٱلسّوْدَة), also Jabal Soudah, a peak in the Sarawat range in Asir, Saudi Arabia, near Abha. Long called the kingdom's highest at 3,015 m; 2018 differential GPS survey measured 2,998.7 m, with Jabal Ferwa 3.1 m higher.

Jade Mountain

Yushan (玉山), or Jade Mountain, is Taiwan's highest peak at 3,952 m in the Central Mountain Range, formerly Mount Niitaka, centerpiece of Yushan National Park and a major climbing destination.

Jargalant Khairkhan

Jargalant Khairkhan, also known as Dzüün Jirgalanta Nuruu, is a 3,796 m mountain in Khovd Province, Mongolia, a stand-alone massif near the city of Khovd.

Jebel an Nabi Shu'ayb

Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb (جَبَل ٱلنَّبِي شُعَيْب), also called Jabal Hadhur, is Yemen's and the Arabian Peninsula's highest mountain at 3,666 m in the Haraz-Sarawat near Sana'a, with 3,311 m prominence and nearest higher terrain in Ethiopia.

Jebel Ash Sham

Jebel Ash Sham (جبل شمس), also Jebel Shams or Jabal Shams, is Oman's highest mountain at about 3,009 m in the western Hajar range, overlooking the roughly 1 km deep Wadi Ghul canyon, with a military-restricted summit and the Balcony Walk trail.

Jiuding Shan

Jiuding Shan (九顶山) is a mountain in Sichuan, China, and the highest peak of the Longmen Shan range at about 4,969 meters, within a nature reserve holding wild giant pandas.

K12

K12 (mountain): 7,428 m peak in the Saltoro Mountains of the Karakoram, near the Siachen Glacier. Survey-designation name, ~1,978 m prominence, first climbed 1974 by a Japanese expedition; closed to civilian climbing.

K2

K2 (8,611 m), also called the Savage Mountain, is the world's second-highest peak, in the Karakoram on the Pakistan–China border. Named by survey in 1856, first climbed in 1954, first climbed in winter in 2021, and far deadlier than Everest per summit.

Kaba

Kaba (Kaaba) is an active 1,962 m stratovolcano in Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia, on the Sunda Volcanic Arc, with multiple summit craters, 11 confirmed eruptive periods including a fatal 1833 eruption, and last eruption in August 2000.

Kackar Dagi

Kackar Dagi (Kaçkar Dağı), 3,932–3,937 m, is the highest peak of Turkey's Eastern Pontic (Kaçkar) Mountains and the Black Sea region, fourth-highest in Turkey, first climbed in 1846, within Kaçkar Dağları Milli Park (1994).

Kala Patthar

Kala Patthar ("black rock") is a 5,545–5,644 m viewpoint on Pumori's south ridge above Gorak Shep, Nepal, the classic spot to see Everest's summit, which is hidden from Everest Base Camp itself.

Kalsubai (कळसूबाई)

Kalsubai (कळसूबाई शिखर), the Everest of Maharashtra, is a 1,646 m peak in Akola taluka, Ahilyanagar district, in the Western Ghats' Sahyadri range, Maharashtra's highest point, within the Kalsubai Wildlife Sanctuary, with a summit temple and a trek from Bari village.

Kambalny

Kambalny (Камбальный, Kambalnaya Sopka), southernmost stratovolcano of Kamchatka, Russia, 2,116 m; long dormant, it produced its first historical phreatic eruption in March 2017, VEI 3, with ash plumes to 7 km drifting 2,000 km.

Kamet

Kamet (Kang Med, "Burning Mountain") is a 7,756 m Himalayan peak in Uttarakhand, India's third-highest summit, first climbed in 1931 by Frank Smythe's British expedition.

Kangchenjunga

Kangchenjunga, 8,586 m, is the world's third-highest mountain on the Nepal–Sikkim (India) border; first climbed 25 May 1955 by George Band and Joe Brown, sacred to Sikkimese peoples, with glaciers retreating since 1975.

Kangju Kangri

Kangju Kangri is a 6,725 m peak in the Pangong range, Ladakh, India, its highest summit, with 2,147 m prominence; first climbed in 1983 by an Indo-Tibet Border Police and local army expedition.

Kangtö (eastern asia, WWlists_ultras_china1:1.14)

Kangtö (Kangto, 康格多山), highest peak of Arunachal Pradesh on the India-Tibet McMahon Line, Eastern Himalaya; about 7,042-7,060 m, first climbed by Japanese from Tibet (1981 or 1988), from India in 2025.

Kangze'gyai

Kangze'gyai (团结峰, Tuanjie Peak, Gangzewujie) is the highest peak of the Qilian Mountains, Qinghai, China, about 5,808–5,827 m, an ultra with 2,231 m prominence, first climbed in 1958.

Kanjiroba

Kanjiroba is a 6,883 m (22,582 ft) mountain in the Kanjiroba Himal of far western Nepal's Dolpa District, the highest peak of that range, first climbed in 1970.

Karun Kuh

Karun Kuh, also known as Karun Koh, is the culminating summit of the Karun Kuh group of the Ghujerab Mountains in Pakistan's northern Karakoram, first ascended in 1984 by an Austrian expedition.

Kawagebo

Kawagebo (Kawagarbo, 卡瓦格博, Tibetan ཁ་བ་དཀར་པོ) is the 6,740 m highest peak of Yunnan's Meili Snow Mountains. Never climbed; a 1991 avalanche killed 17 climbers, and local law has banned mountaineering since 2001.

Kawarani

Kawarani (卡瓦洛日, ཁ་བ་ལུང་རི, Kawaluo Ri) is a sacred twin-summit peak, 5,992 m and 5,928 m, in the Gongkala Mountains of Ganzi, Sichuan, China; first climbed in 2014 by Marcos Costa and Bruce Normand after years of access blocks by local monks.

KERTAU

Kertau (Tapkhan Peak, 塔普汗峰) is a 3,282 m ultra-prominent peak in Xinjiang, China, highest point of the Barlik/Dzungarian Gate range; possible first documented ascent by Taozhu Zhou in 2026. Distinct from Kertau, Malaysia.

Khangar

Khangar (Hangar, Вулкан Хангар) is a 1,967 m stratovolcano with a lake-filled Holocene caldera, the southernmost volcano of Kamchatka's Sredinny Range; its VEI 6 eruption about 7,000 years ago produced the KHG marker tephra, and its last dated eruption was around 1500 CE.