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Pico Bolivar
Pico Bolívar, also called La Columna, is Venezuela's highest mountain at 4,978.4 ± 0.4 m by 2002 GPS survey (official 5,007 m since 1928), in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida; first climbed 5 January 1935.
Pico de Bandeira
Pico de Bandeira, Portuguese Pico da Bandeira, is a 2,892-meter mountain in the Serra do Caparaó on the border of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, the third-highest point in Brazil.
Pico de Neblina
Pico da Neblina, called Yaripo by the Yanomami, is Brazil's highest mountain at 2,995.30 meters, on the Brazil–Venezuela border in Amazonas and the highest in South America east of the Andes.
Pico de Orizaba
Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), Mexico's highest peak and North America's highest volcano, is a stratovolcano on the Puebla–Veracruz border, last erupting in 1846, whose Glaciar Norte is Mexico's last glacier.
Pico Duarte
Pico Duarte, formerly Pico Trujillo, is the highest mountain of the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola, and the Caribbean, in the Cordillera Central; officially 3,087 m, measured at 3,098 m (GPS, 2000) and 3,101.1 m (GNSS, 2021).
Pico Pedra da Mina (Pontan)
Pico Pedra da Mina (Pedra da Mina), 2,798.2 m, is Brazil's fourth highest point and the highest of Serra da Mantiqueira and São Paulo state, on the Queluz/Lavrinhas–Passa Quatro border; a nepheline syenite peak of the Passa Quatro Alkaline Complex.
Pico Turquino
Pico Turquino (Pico Real del Turquino), 1,974 m, is Cuba's highest peak, in the Sierra Maestra's Turquino National Park; climbed by guided treks from Alto del Naranjo (Granma) or Las Cuevas, near the Comandancia de la Plata.
Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak, also called America's Mountain, is a 14,115-foot Colorado fourteener near Colorado Springs with 5,530 feet of prominence, named for explorer Zebulon Pike, first climbed by Edwin James in 1820, and topped by a highway, cog railway, and visitor center.
Pilot Peak
Pilot Peak (Nevada), highest summit of the Pilot Range in Elko County near the Utah border, a 10,719-foot ultra-prominent peak named by John C. Fremont in 1845 and a key water stop on the Hastings Cutoff for the Donner Party.
Platanar
Platanar (Volcán Congo) is a dormant Pleistocene stratovolcano in Costa Rica's Cordillera Central, part of the 900 km² Platanar-Porvenir complex within Chocosuela caldera, 2,267 m, no Holocene eruptions, hit by 2023 landslides.
Poas
Poas (Poas Volcano) is an active stratovolcano in Costa Rica's Cordillera Volcanica Central, 2,697-2,708 m high, with the near-pH-zero Laguna Caliente crater lake, frequent phreatic eruptions since 1828, and an ongoing VEI 2 episode begun January 2025.
Pogromni Volcano
Pogromni Volcano (Sopka Pogromnaya) is a 2,002 m tholeiitic-basalt stratovolcano on southwest Unimak Island, Alaska. Eruptions once attributed to it (1795, 1827, 1830) are now assigned to Westdahl; it shows no historical activity and is not seismically monitored.
Popocatépetl
Popocatépetl, also known as El Popo or Don Goyo, is an active stratovolcano southeast of Mexico City, the second highest in North America and in eruption since 1994.
Pt. 8,010
Pt. 8,010, or Dewey Peak, is an 8,010-foot ultra-prominent summit in Alaska's Chugach Mountains on the Copper River within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, first climbed and skied in March 2019 by Ryan Hokanson's party.
Pt. 8,084
Pt. 8,084 (Peak 8084) is an elevation-based designation most commonly applied to De Long Peak, an 8,084-foot (2,464 m) ultra-prominent summit in Alaska's Chugach Mountains; the number also identifies summits in Idaho and the Alaska Range.
Pular
Pular (Quechua pullurqui) is a 6,233 m stratovolcano in Chile's Antofagasta Region, forming a 12-km ridge with Cerro Pajonales near Socompa; no confirmed eruptions, first ascent 1972.
Pummel Peak
Pummel Peak (Pommel Peak), a 6,620-foot summit in the Chisos Mountains at Panther Junction, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas; named by surveyors Stiles and Penick in 1902, class 4 offtrail climb.
Puntiagudo-Cordon Cenizos
Puntiagudo-Cordón Cenizos, a Chilean volcanic chain between Lago Rupanco and Lago Todos Los Santos: a 2,493 m glacially dissected andesitic stratovolcano with an 18-km NE fissure system, last erupting in 1850 (VEI 1).
Qiajivik Mtn.
Qiajivik Mtn. is a 1,963 m (6,440 ft) mountain in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, the loftiest summit on northern Baffin Island with 1,787 m of topographic prominence.
Quilotoa
Quilotoa is an active volcano in Ecuador's Western Cordillera, about 83 km southwest of Quito, whose 3-km-wide caldera holds a deep turquoise crater lake popular with hikers.
Rainier
Mount Rainier, Washington's 14,410-ft active andesite-dacite stratovolcano and highest Cascade peak; last erupted about 1,000 years ago; greatest hazard is lahars; Very High threat rating.
Razorback Mtn.
Razorback Mtn. (Razorback Mountain) is a descriptive peak name; in British Columbia it denotes a 2,605 m Rockies border summit near Yellowhead Pass and a 3,183 m ultra-prominent Niut Range (Coast Mountains) peak.
Recheschnoi
Recheschnoi (Mount Recheshnoi) is a 1,984-m glaciated Holocene stratovolcano on Umnak Island in the Aleutians, Alaska, east of Vsevidof, with no historic eruptions and Alaska's only known geysers at Geyser Bight.
Risco Plateado
Risco Plateado (Cerro Risco Plateado), a 4,999 m stratovolcano with a 4-km caldera in Malargüe Department, Mendoza, Argentina, Southern Andean Volcanic Arc; no known Holocene eruptions, Plio-Pleistocene volcanics.
Ritacuba Blanco
Ritacuba Blanco (Rita Uwa Blanco), highest peak of Colombia's Sierra Nevada del Cocuy and the Cordillera Oriental at about 5,330-5,410 m; first climbed 1942 by Augusto Gansser; its monitored glacier has lost 67% of its area since 1955.
Romeral
Romeral, a stratovolcano in Caldas, Colombia, at the northern end of the Ruiz-Tolima chain; elevation 3858 m (SGC), last confirmed eruption 5390 BCE (VEI 4), green alert, active at rest; not to be confused with the Romeral fault system or the Chilean town.
Roundtop
Roundtop (Roundtop Mountain) is an eroded, glaciated stratovolcano on Unimak Island, Alaska, 13 km from False Pass; 1,871 m high, with a VEI 5 caldera-forming eruption around 7600 BCE and no historical eruptions.
Sabancaya
Sabancaya, an active 5,960 m stratovolcano in Arequipa, southern Peru, part of the Ampato–Sabancaya complex; the only historically active center there, erupting since 6 November 2016 with about 50 explosions per day.
Sahuasiray (Nevado Colque Cruz)
Sahuasiray (Saguasiray, locally Colque Cruz), 5,818 m peak of Peru's Cordillera Urubamba near Cusco; first climbed 1963 by Italians (Carlo Pivano died in rockfall), second ascent 2015 via southwest face by Nathan Heald.
Sairecabur
Sairecabur, also Sairecábur, is a dormant andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano on the Chile-Bolivia border in the Central Volcanic Zone, about 5,971 m high, with a 4.5-km caldera and no confirmed Holocene eruptions.