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Ragang

Ragang (Piapayungan), volcano number 271060, is a 2,790 m basaltic stratovolcano southeast of Lake Lanao in central Mindanao, Philippines, the island's most frequently active volcano, with 8 confirmed eruptions since 1765 and a last eruption in 1916.

Rakaposhi

Rakaposhi (Dumani, "mother of mists") is a 7,788 m Karakoram peak in Nagar district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; 27th-highest worldwide, first climbed 25 June 1958 by Mike Banks and Tom Patey, famed for its ~5,900 m north-face rise above the Hunza river.

Reo Purgyil (mountain, India)

Reo Purgyil (6,816 m), also confused with Leo Pargial, is the highest peak of Himachal Pradesh, India, on the Tibet border in Kinnaur. First climbed unrecorded by ITBP in 1971; only a handful of ascents since, all via the west ridge from Nako.

Saltoro Kangri

Saltoro Kangri (K10, Peak 36) is a 7,742 m peak in the Saltoro Mountains of the Karakoram near the Siachen Glacier, the world's 31st-highest mountain, first climbed in 1962 by a Japanese-Pakistani expedition.

Sanset

Sanset, also known as Sunset Peak or Romesh Thong, is a 4,745 m Himalayan peak in Poonch District, Jammu and Kashmir, often called the Pir Panjal Range's highest.

Saraghrar

Saraghrar (7,338 m, also cited 7,340 m) is the fourth-highest independent peak of the Hindu Kush in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, above Chitral; first climbed 24 August 1959 by Italians, with Saraghrar SE first ascended in 2005.

Saramati

Saramati (Mount Saramati) is Nagaland's highest peak, about 3,826-3,841 m, on the India-Myanmar border in Kiphire district near Thanamir village; an ultra-prominent Patkai range summit with winter snow and a 2-3 day trek.

Saser Kangri I

Saser Kangri I (K22) is a 7,672 m peak in the Saser Muztagh, eastern Karakoram, Ladakh, India; 35th-highest worldwide, ultra-prominent (2,304 m), first climbed 1973 by the ITBP from the east, west ridge in 1987.

Sauyr Zhotasy (mountain, China)

Sauyr Zhotasy, also called Muz Tau (ice mountain), is a 3,840 m border peak, the highest summit of the Sauyr Range on the Xinjiang-Kazakhstan frontier, notable for 3,250 m prominence and absence of a documented main-summit ascent.

Semionova Tien-Shanskogo (HP Ala-Archa)

Semionova Tien-Shanskogo (пик Семёнова-Тянь-Шаньского), also Ala-Archa High Point, is a 4,895 m ultra-prominent peak in Kyrgyzstan's Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range, its highest point, in Ala-Archa National Park, first climbed in 1950.

Sepu Kangri

Sepu Kangri (色浦岗日), the Great White Snow God, is a 6,956 m ultra-prominent peak in the Nyainqentanglha Mountains of eastern Tibet, first climbed on 2 October 2002 by Mark Newcomb and Carlos Buhler after failed Bonington expeditions.

Shakangsham

Shakangsham, also spelled Shahkangshan or Shar Kangsum, is a 6,822 m ultra-prominent peak (1,914 m prominence) in Gêrzê County on the Central Tibetan Plateau, China, with no recorded ascents; a 2005 expedition turned back near 6,000 m after avalanches.

Shanzidou

Shanzidou (扇子陡), "Fan Peak," is the 5,596 m highest summit of Yulong Xueshan (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain) near Lijiang, Yunnan. Sacred Naxi peak, climbed once in 1987 by Peralta-Ramos and Perlman, now closed to climbing.

Shikar Beh

Shikar Beh (Shikarbeh) is a 6,200 m ultra-prominent peak in Himachal Pradesh, India, near the Kulu-Lahul divide; first climbed 16 June 1955 by Stewart, Bennet, and Lees of the RAF Mountaineering Association, and namesake of the Shikar Beh Nappe.

Shir Kuh

Shir Kuh (شیرکوه, Lion Mountain) is a 4,050–4,055 m ultra-prominent peak in Yazd Province, central Iran, 40 km southwest of Yazd; the province's highest point, a Jurassic granite batholith summit.

Shishapangma (希夏邦马峰)

Shishapangma (希夏邦马峰), also Shisha Pangma or Gosainthan, is Tibet's 8,027 m peak, the 14th highest and only eight-thousander entirely in China; first climbed 2 May 1964, last of the 14 to be climbed.

Sikaram Sar

Sikaram Sar (سیکرم, Mount Sikaram), 4,755 m, is the highest peak of the Spīn Ghar (Safēd Kōh) range on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border south of the Khyber Pass, an ultra-prominent summit (2,295 m) and type locality of the Sikaram Series.

Skalistyy Golets

Skalistyy Golets (Гора Скалистый Голец) is the name of two mountains in eastern Russia, including the 2,519 m highest point of the Kalar Range in Zabaykalsky Krai.

Sob Gangri

Sob Gangri, also called Yuzhu Peak (玉珠峰), is a 6,178 m ultra-prominent peak in Qinghai, China, the highest of the eastern Kunlun Mountains, near the Qingzang Highway and a well-known introductory high-altitude climb.

Sorikmarapi

Sorikmarapi (Sorik Marapi), 2,145 m stratovolcano in Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra, Indonesia; 600-m summit crater lake, sulfur deposits, phreatic eruptions 1829-1986, 2026 unrest, and a 240 MW geothermal project.

South Col

The South Col is the high saddle between Mount Everest and Lhotse on the Nepal–China border at about 7,920 m, the last camp on the Southeast Ridge route.

Spokoiny

Spokoiny, also known as Kutina, is a dacitic stratovolcano in the northern Sredinny Range of central Kamchatka, Russia, rising 2,171 m and dormant since 3450 BCE.

Sulamutag Feng

Sulamutag Feng (苏拉木塔格峰) is an unclimbed 6,245 m mountain in the Altyn-Tagh range of northwestern China, in Xinjiang near the Qinghai border, described by some sources as the range's highest summit.

Sumbing (gunung sumbing)

Sumbing (Gunung Sumbing), Central Java stratovolcano, 3,370 m, twin of Sundoro; last erupted about 1730 CE (VEI 1); 2008 eruption report was false; distinct from Sumatra's Sumbing.

Sundoro

Sundoro (Gunung Sundoro, also Sindoro or Sindara) is a symmetrical active stratovolcano, 3,149 m, in Central Java, Indonesia, between the Dieng complex and Sumbing; last erupted 1971, with twelve eruptive groups since 34 ka.

Suphan Dagi

Suphan Dagi (Süphan Dağı, Sîpanê Xelatê) is a dormant stratovolcano north of Lake Van, Turkey's third highest peak at 4,058 m, Pleistocene eruptions, retreating summit glaciers.

Syue Shan

Syue Shan (雪山, Xueshan, Snow Mountain), Taiwan's second highest peak at 3,886 m in Shei-Pa National Park; highest point of the Xueshan Range, ranked #2 of the Baiyue, with glacial cirques and winter snow-season permits.

Taibai Shan

Taibai Shan (太白山), Great White Mountain, highest peak of the Qinling Mountains and of eastern mainland China at about 3,767-3,771 m in Shaanxi; granite massif with Quaternary glacial cirques, Daye Lake, and full vertical vegetation belts on China's north-south divide.

Taisetsuzan

Taisetsuzan (大雪山), also called the Daisetsuzan or Taisetsu volcano group, is a complex of over 20 stratovolcanoes in central Hokkaido, Japan, with Asahidake, 2,291 m, as its highest peak.

Talagabodas

Talagabodas (Telaga Bodas), a 2,201 m stratovolcano north of Galunggung, West Java, Indonesia; no known Holocene eruptions, but a sulfur-saturated crater lake, fumaroles, and the drilled Karaha-Telaga Bodas geothermal system reaching 353 degrees C.