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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 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 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 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 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 Kumgang (금강산)
Mount Kumgang (금강산, Diamond Mountain) is a ~1,600 m granite sacred mountain in North Korea's Kangwon Province, a Korean Buddhist site since the 5th century, inscribed by UNESCO in 2025 and formerly a 1998–2008 inter-Korean tourist resort now being demolished.
Mount Lu (庐山)
Mount Lu (庐山, Lushan) is a 1,474 m mountain in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, between the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake; a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape since 1996, famed for Donglin Temple, White Deer Cave Academy, and its summer-capital political history.
Mount Madiac
Mount Madiac, alternate name of Mount Madja-as (Madjaas), highest peak of Panay island, Philippines, in Antique province; 2,117 m elevation and prominence, an ultra, ninth of the Philippine ultras, second highest in the Visayas after Kanlaon.
Mount Malindang
Mount Malindang is a 2,404 m extinct stratovolcano in Misamis Occidental, Mindanao, Philippines, the highest peak of the Malindang Range Natural Park, an ASEAN Heritage Park (2011), Subanen ancestral domain, and watershed for over a million people.
Mount Mantaling
Mount Mantaling (Mantalingajan), southern Palawan, Philippines: highest peak in Palawan at 2,085–2,086 m, sacred to indigenous Palaw'an people, core of the 120,457-ha Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (Proclamation 1815, 2009), a Key Biodiversity Area and UNESCO tentative site.
Mount Pulag
Mount Pulag (Pulog), highest peak on Luzon at about 2,922 m and third highest in the Philippines, a protected national park and protected landscape in Benguet, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya known for its grassland summit, mossy forest, and watershed.
Mount Rinjani
Mount Rinjani, 3,726 m on Lombok, Indonesia, is the country's second-highest volcano. Its Segara Anak caldera formed in the 1257 CE Samalas eruption, a magnitude-7 event and source of the largest ice-core sulfate spike of the past 7,000 years.
Mount Tabor (הר תבור)
Mount Tabor (הר תבור, Jabal al-Tur) is an isolated 562 m dome mountain at the Jezreel Valley's edge in Lower Galilee, Israel; biblical Deborah-Barak site and traditional location of the Transfiguration, with Franciscan and Greek Orthodox churches.
Mount Tagubud
Mount Tagubud, also known as Mount Pandadagsaan or White Peak, is the highest mountain in Davao de Oro province on Mindanao in the Philippines, at 2,670 meters in New Bataan.
Mount Tai (泰山)
Mount Tai (泰山, Taishan), the easternmost of China's Five Sacred Mountains in Shandong, is a 1,545 m World Heritage site (1987) of fengshan imperial sacrifice, Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist temples, 1,800 inscriptions, and 6,660 summit steps.
Mt. Ostry Tolbachik
Mt. Ostry Tolbachik (Острый Толбачик), 3,682 m, is the extinct sharp-topped stratovolcano of the Tolbachik massif in Kamchatka, Russia, beside active Plosky Tolbachik; its summit collapsed about 7,000 years ago.
Munkh Khairkhan
Munkh Khairkhan (Мөнххайрхан уул, 'Holy eternal mountain'), second highest mountain in Mongolia at about 4,200 m, a glaciated massif of the Mongol Altai in Bayan-Ölgii and Khovd provinces whose glaciers shrank 32% from 1990 to 2020.
Muztagh Ata
Muztagh Ata, "Father of Ice Mountains," a 7,546 m glaciated Pamir dome in Xinjiang, China; first climbed 31 July 1956 by a 31-member Sino-Soviet team via the west ridge, now a popular commercial 7,000er.
Myokosan
Myokosan (妙高山) is a 2,454 m active stratovolcano in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, with a 3-km summit caldera and lava dome, active about 300,000 years, no historical eruptions, fumarolic Jigokudani area.
Namsan (Gyeongju)
Namsan, also called Geumosan, is a mountain south of the ancient Silla capital at Gyeongju, South Korea, holding the country's densest concentration of Buddhist remains, inscribed by UNESCO in 2000.
Nanda Devi (नन्दा देवी)
Nanda Devi (नन्दा देवी), 7,817 m, is India's second highest peak in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, a sacred Hindu goddess mountain ringed by the Sanctuary basin, first climbed in 1936, closed to climbing since 1983, and a UNESCO World Heritage area.
Nanfengmian
Nanfengmian (南风面) is a 2,120.4-meter mountain in Suichuan County, Jiangxi, China, and the highest peak of the Luoxiao Mountains, protected as a national nature reserve on a major bird migration flyway.
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat (Diamer/Deo Mir), the 8,126 m ninth-highest peak and western anchor of the Himalayas in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; the 'Killer Mountain' with the world's highest face (Rupal), first climbed solo by Hermann Buhl in 1953 and in winter in 2016.
Nantaisan
Nantaisan (男体山, Mount Nantai) is a 2,486 m conical stratovolcano at Lake Chuzenji, Nikko, Japan, on the NE Japan volcanic front; its largest eruption ~17 ka, latest ~7 ka, sacred Futarasan Shrine mountain.
Nasudake
Nasudake (那須岳), also called Chausudake, is a 1,915 m active stratovolcano group at the north end of Japan's Kanto Plain, about 160 km north of Tokyo; last erupted phreatically in 1963, with six magmatic eruptions since 16,000 years ago, the latest in 1408-1410 CE.
Nemjung
Nemjung (7,140 m, also listed 7,139 m) is a Peri Himal peak in Manang, Nepal, near Himlung Himal. First climbed in 1983 via the east ridge; new routes climbed in 2009 by French and Japanese teams.
Ngoc Linh (mountain, Vietnam)
Ngoc Linh (Ngọc Linh), 2,598 m, highest peak of Vietnam's Central Highlands on the Kon Tum–Quảng Nam border; ultra-prominent Annamite summit, home of endemic Ngoc Linh ginseng (Panax vietnamensis) and a demanding trekking destination.
Niigata-Yakeyama
Niigata-Yakeyama (新潟焼山), also called Mount Yake, is a 2,400 m andesite-dacite lava-dome stratovolcano on the Niigata-Nagano border, Japan. Last magmatic eruption 1773; 1974 phreatic eruption killed three climbers; monitored 24 hours by JMA with alert levels 1-5.
Nikko-Shiranesan
Nikko-Shiranesan (日光白根山) is an active volcano on the border of Gunma and Tochigi prefectures in central Honshu, Japan, rising to 2,578 m at its peak, Shiranesan.
Norikuradake
Norikuradake (乗鞍岳, Mount Norikura), 3,026 m Kengamine, is a composite andesite-dacite volcano, the third highest volcano in Japan, at the southern end of the Northern Japan Alps on the Nagano-Gifu border, a Hyakumeizan hiking peak with a shuttle-bus skyline.