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Khvoshkuh
Khvoshkuh (Khvoshkūh, Khush Kuh) names several mountains: a 2,830 m peak in Afghanistan recorded by the NGA, a 2,650 m Iranian summit, and the alternative name of Kūh-e Poshtkūh (2,575 m) in Hormozgan, Iran.
Kita-dake
Kita-dake (北岳), 3,193 m, Japan's second-highest mountain after Fuji, in Yamanashi's Southern Alps; highest non-volcanic peak, home of the endemic Kitadakesō buttercup.
Kizimen
Kizimen is an isolated, conical stratovolcano in Kamchatka, Russia, at the eastern Central Kamchatka Depression. Formed about 12,000 years ago in four cycles, it erupted in 1927-28 and from 2010 to 2013 (VEI 3), with dacite-andesite magma mixing.
Klabat
Klabat (Gunung Klabat, Mount Kelang) is a dormant 1,995 m stratovolcano at the eastern tip of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, east of Manado; highest peak in northern Sulawesi, with a crater lake and no verified historical eruptions.
Komarov
Komarov: a dormant stratovolcano (2,065–2,070 m) on the Gamchen ridge, Kamchatka, last erupting around 950 CE, and an 80.43-km lunar crater named for cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov.
Kongur Shan
Kongur Shan (Kongur Tagh, Gongge'er Feng), highest peak of the Pamirs in Xinjiang, China; 7,649 or 7,719 m, prominence 3,585 m; first climbed 12 July 1981 by Bonington, Boardman, Rouse, and Tasker.
Koryaksky
Koryaksky (Koryakskii, Корякский вулкан) is a 3,456 m basaltic-andesite stratovolcano in the Avacha group, Kamchatka, near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; about 60 Holocene eruptions, historical activity in 1895, 1926, 1956–57, and a 2008–2009 activation.
Koyo Zom
Koyo Zom (کویو زوم), 6,872 m, is the highest peak of Pakistan's Hindu Raj range between the Hindu Kush and Karakoram; first climbed 1968 by Austrians, third ascent 2019 via the northwest face.
Kronotsky
Kronotsky Volcano (Кроноцкая сопка), the "Fuji of Kamchatka," is a 3,482 m basaltic stratovolcano on Kamchatka's Pacific coast, the Eastern Volcanic Front's largest edifice, with extremely low-K tholeiitic lavas and Holocene eruptions dated by tephra.
Kuh-e Bandaka (Tirgaran)
Kuh-e Bandaka (Tirgaran, کوه بندکا) is a 6,812 m ultra-prominent Hindu Kush peak in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, the country's third highest; first climbed in 1960 by a West Berlin expedition via the west ridge.
Kuh-e Chuk Shakh
Kuh-e Chuk Shakh (کوه چوک شاخ), also romanized Kōh-e Chūk Shākh, is a 5,467 m ultra-prominent Hindu Kush mountain in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, near Ishkashim, with about 2,444 m prominence and no recorded ascents.
Kuh-e Dinar
Kuh-e Dinar (کوه دینار), a Zagros mountain in Isfahan, Iran, about 4,182–4,409 m high, uplifted on the Dinar thrust of the High Zagros fault; distinct from smaller same-named mountains in Ilam and Kerman.
Kuh-e Fareghan
Kuh-e Fareghan (Kūh-e Fāreghān, Homag/Hemag) is a 3,240 m ultra-prominence peak in Hormozgan, Iran, the highest point of the Southern Zagros, with 2,082 m prominence; the surrounding range holds 52 named peaks up to 3,250 m.
Kuh-e Genu
Kuh-e Genu (کوه گنو) is the name of two mountains in southern Iran: a 2,540 m peak in Kerman Province and an isolated 2,350 m massif in Hormozgan Province.
Kuh-e Hami
Kuh-e Hami, also rendered Kūh-e Hāmī, is an ultra-prominent mountain in the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran, standing about 3,200 meters above sea level in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province.
Kuh-e Hazar
Kuh-e Hazar (کوه هزار, Kūh-e Hezār), also Hazaran or Hezar, is an ultra-prominent 4,465-4,501 m massif in Kerman Province, southeastern Iran, the highest peak outside the Alborz, in the Sahand-Bazman volcanic belt near Rayen.
Kuh-e Jang Qal'eh
Kuh-e Jang Qal'eh (کوه جنگ قلعه), also Kōh-e Jang Qal'ah, is a mountain in Pur Chaman District, Farah Province, Afghanistan; listed at 4,171 m with 1,476 m prominence and 258 km isolation in the Central Afghanistan Ranges.
Kuh-e Nay Band
Kuh-e Nay Band (کوه نای بند), Nayband, is a 2,960 m ultra-prominent peak in South Khorasan Province, Iran, the province's highest point and namesake of the Triassic Nayband Formation and Nayband fault.
Kuh-e Shab
Kuh-e Shab (کوه شب), also Hormoz or Kūh-i-Hormuz, a mountain and range in Iran's Southern Zagros near Fars/Hormozgan; highest summit Kuh-e Show 2,681 m, an ultra-prominent peak with 2,100 m prominence.
Kuh-e Shahvar
Kuh-e Shahvar (كوهِ شاهوار, Kūh-e Shāhvār) is a high Alborz mountain in Shahrud County, Semnan Province, Iran, near 36.58 N, 54.76 E; published elevations run 3,670 to 3,945 m, with 1,923 m prominence, an Iranian Ultra peak.
Kuh-e Siah Khvani
Kuh-e Siah Khvani (کوه سیاه خوانی), also recorded as Shirbad, is the highest summit of the Binalood range near Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran; reported elevations range from 2,682 to 3,314 m.
Kuh-e Taftan
Kuh-e Taftan (تفتان), also Koh-i Taftan, is a 3,940 m eroded andesitic stratovolcano in Sistan and Baluchestan, southeastern Iran, on the Makran arc; Pleistocene last eruption, persistent fumaroles, and 2023–2024 summit uplift unrest.
Kuh-e Zendan
Kuh-e Zendan (کوه زندان, "Prison Mountain") names several separate Iranian mountains: an 855 m peak in Hormozgan, a 1,805 m mountain and a 2,011 m volcano in West Azerbaijan, and a 1,025 m mountain in Kerman Province.
Kuh-e-Sabalaan
Kuh-e-Sabalaan (Sabalan, Savalan, سبلان) is a 4,811 m stratovolcano in Ardabil province, NW Iran, Iran's third-highest peak, with a summit caldera, frozen crater lake, seven glaciers, and hot-spring spa towns on its slopes.
Kuh-i Belandtarin
Kuh-i Belandtarin (کوه بلندترین), also Koh-e Helal, is a 6,286 m ultra prominent peak in Wakhan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, in the Pamir; first ascent 7 August 1971 by Italians, prominence 2,008 m, col 4,278 m.
Kusatsu-Shiranesan
Kusatsu-Shiranesan (草津白根山), also called Mount Kusatsu-Shirane, is a 2,165 m active stratovolcano in Gunma, Japan, with three pyroclastic cones and acidic crater lakes; its phreatic eruptions include the deadly 23 January 2018 Motoshirane explosion.
LAMO-SHE
Lamo-she (田海子山) is a 6,070 m mountain in the Daxue Shan of Sichuan, China, the highest summit of the Tatsienlu Massif east of Kangding, first climbed in 1993.
Lawu
Lawu (Gunung Lawu, Lawoe), 3,265 m stratovolcano on the Central Java–East Java border, Indonesia; no confirmed eruptions (1885 and 1752 events discredited), fumarolic south flank, sacred mountain with Sukuh temple, excluded from geothermal work areas.
Ledyakaya
Ledyakaya, more commonly spelled Ledyanaya (Ледяная, "Icy"), is a glacier-capped peak in the Koryak Mountains of the Russian Far East and the range's highest point at 2,562 m.
Lhotse (ལྷོ་རྩེ)
Lhotse (ལྷོ་རྩེ, "South Peak") is the world's fourth-highest mountain at 8,516 m in Nepal's Khumbu Himal, linked to Everest by the South Col with only 610 m prominence; first climbed 18 May 1956 by Swiss climbers Luchsinger and Reiss.