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Crazy Peak (mountain, United States)

Crazy Peak, highest summit of the Crazy Mountains island range in Sweet Grass County, Montana, about 11,214-11,224 ft with roughly 5,724 ft of prominence; Crow vision quest site of Chief Plenty Coups.

Cuernos del Paine

Cuernos del Paine (Horns of Paine) are three granite peaks with dark Cerro Toro shale caps in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park; central Cuerno Principal is 2,110 m, carved from a ~12.5 Ma laccolith.

Cumbal

Cumbal, also known as Nevado de Cumbal, is a glacier-capped stratovolcano in Nariño, Colombia, rising to 4,764 m and the country's southernmost historically active volcano.

Denali

Denali (Koyukon Deenaalee, 'the high one'), also federally named Mount McKinley, is North America's highest peak at 20,310 ft (6,190 m) in the Alaska Range; first climbed 1913, renamed Denali 2015, reverted 2025.

Denison

Mount Denison is an ice-covered, poorly studied stratovolcano in Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula, Alaska, part of the Denison-Steller-Kukak-Devils Desk chain; no Holocene eruptions documented, not seismically monitored.

Deseret Peak

Deseret Peak, 11,031 ft, is the highest summit of Utah's Stansbury Mountains in Tooele County, a Cambrian quartzite ultra-prominence peak (5,807 ft) at the center of the Deseret Peak Wilderness.

Diamond Peak

Diamond Peak names several US mountains: a 10,619-ft Eureka County, Nevada high point in the Diamond Mountains, the Diamond Peak ski resort at Incline Village, Lake Tahoe, and peaks in Lassen park, Oregon, and Idaho.

Douglas (volcano)

Mount Douglas (Smithsonian VNum 312270) is a 2,140 m glacier-covered stratovolcano in Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula, 12 km northeast of Fourpeaked Mountain, with no historical eruptions, an acidic warm crater lake, fumaroles, and 2016 earthquake swarms.

El Capitan

El Capitan is a 3,000-foot (914 m) granite monolith in Yosemite National Park, made of El Capitan Granite. Famous for the Nose (first ascended 1958), the 2015 Dawn Wall free climb, and Honnold's 2017 free solo.

El Mela

El Mela (Cerro El Mela) is a mountain in the Sierra de Velasco, La Rioja Province, Argentina, usually identified as the range's highest summit at 4,160 m.

El Peñón de Guatapé

El Peñón de Guatapé, also called La Piedra del Peñol, is a 220-meter granite monolith in Antioquia, Colombia, with 740 concrete steps in a fissure, first climbed in 1954, overlooking the 1970s Peñol-Guatapé reservoir.

Enchanted Rock

Enchanted Rock is a pink granite exfoliation dome in the Texas Hill Country, the centerpiece of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area near Fredericksburg; a billion-year-old batholith, National Natural Landmark, and one of Texas's most visited parks.

Falso Azufre

Falso Azufre (Cerro Falso Azufre), a 5,906 m complex volcano on the Chile-Argentina border in the Central Andean Volcanic Arc; no known Holocene eruptions, 387 km2 massif built 0.9-0.5 Ma.

Farallones de Citara

The Farallones de Citará, also written Farallones del Citará, is a peak in Colombia's Cordillera Occidental, located in southwestern Antioquia. It stands 4,050 m.

Fitz Roy

Fitz Roy, also called Cerro Chaltén, is a 3,405 m granite peak in Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina, first climbed in 1952 by Terray and Magnone and famed for hard Patagonian routes.

Fourpeaked

Fourpeaked (Fourpeaked Mountain), glacier-covered stratovolcano in Katmai National Park, Alaska, 2,104 m. Its first historical eruption, a 6-km phreatic plume, came 17 September 2006, driven by magma intrusion at ~5 km depth.

Fox Mountain

Fox Mountain names several North American features: the 2,404 m highest peak of Yukon's Pelly Mountains, a 5,165-ft roadless-area summit in Los Padres National Forest, California, and the Southeastern Cave Conservancy's largest Georgia cave purchase.

Frosty

Frosty, or Frosty Peak, is a dormant stratovolcano of the Cold Bay volcanic complex on the Alaska Peninsula, 15 km southwest of Cold Bay; westernmost Holocene volcano there, with two coalescing summit craters and no confirmed historical eruptions.

Gannett Peak (mountain, United States)

Gannett Peak, Wyoming's state highpoint at 13,804 ft (LiDAR 13,811 ft), is a glaciated Wind River Range summit on the Continental Divide requiring a 20-plus-mile wilderness approach and glacier travel.

Glacier Peak (mountain)

Glacier Peak is a dacitic stratovolcano, 3,213 m, in Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness, the state's most remote active volcano, with six postglacial eruptive episodes and Very High threat potential.

Gladsheim Peak

Gladsheim Peak (2,830 m) is the highest summit of the Valhalla Range in the Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, named in 1900 for Odin's Norse hall, with its first ascent by the west ridge in 1963.

Guadalupe Peak

Guadalupe Peak, also called Signal Peak, is the highest natural point in Texas at 8,751 feet, in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Culberson County; its summit trail gains 3,000 feet over 8.4 miles.

Guagua Pichincha

Guagua Pichincha, active dacitic stratovolcano of the Ecuadorian Andes, 10-12 km west of Quito, 4,784 m high; largest historical eruption 1660 (30 cm ash in Quito), latest eruptive phase 1999-2001, monitored by IG-EPN.

Guallatiri

Guallatiri (Punata in Aymara) is an active ice-capped stratovolcano, 6,071-6,073 m, on the Chile-Bolivia border in the Nevados de Quimsachata; last erupted 1960, persistent fumaroles, third-highest risk in northern Chile.

Guayaques

Guayaques (Cerros de Guayaques), volcano number 355093, is a 10-km chain of rhyodacitic lava domes, 5,598 m high, straddling the Chile-Bolivia border east of the Purico pyroclastic shield, with no historical eruptions.

Hanagita Peak

Hanagita Peak, 8,504 ft (2,592 m), a Chugach Mountains summit in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, named for Ahtna chief Hanagita; ultra-prominent (5,954 ft) with a possible first ascent reported in 1998.

Hayes

Hayes Volcano, an ice-covered, eroded lava-dome cluster in Alaska's Tordrillo Mountains, the northernmost Aleutian Arc volcano; unrecognized until 1975, with large prehistoric Plinian eruptions and a USGS high-threat rating.

He/She Devil

He Devil and She Devil are twin summits in Idaho's Seven Devils Mountains near Hells Canyon. A 2023 GPS survey found She Devil higher by about 3 inches, making it the range's ultra-prominent peak.

Hoodoo Mountain

Hoodoo Mountain, British Columbia volcano (not the Oregon ski area): flat-topped peralkaline phonolite-trachyte volcano, 1,850 m, ice-covered, last erupted about 7050 BCE, volume 17.3 cubic kilometers.

Howson Peak

Howson Peak, also known as Ts'ihldzïkw, is a 2,759 m mountain in British Columbia, Canada. It is the highest point of the Bulkley Ranges and the Hazelton Mountains.