Steep and hang cliffs always make your heart skip a beat. But the most sharp cliffs do not have to be on the highest mountains. There are mountains that exist above the clouds, mostly form ice and contain snow year round.
The fifty tallest mountains in the world are all found in Asia.
Mount Everest is almost 9,000 meters above sea level, 8850 meters to be exact. This famous mountain and nine other tallest mountains are right on the border of India. They all locate in the Himalaya.
1. Mount Everest - China/Nepal - 8850 meters
2. K2 - China/Pakistan - 8611 meters
3. Kangchenjunga - India/Nepal 8586 meters
4. Lhotse - China/Nepal - 8516 meters
5. Makalu - China/Nepal - 8463 meters
6. Cho Oyu - China/Nepal - 8201 meters
7. Dhaulagiri - Nepal -8167 meters
8. Manaslu - Nepal - 8163 meters
9. Nanga Parbat - Pakistan -8126 meters
10. Annapurna I - Nepal - 8091 meters
Height always has such an internalized affect on me. I think I may have a phobia. I may sound exaggerating but I do experience an irrational fear of high places. I just hate driving on highways that curve and hilly. Thinking about it, driving on those lanes feel like going on a high speed 70pmh roller-coaster.
The mayo clinic lists this phobia as acrophobia. So I guess, acro means height.
For this woman, guess it's not a big deal.
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The interesting thing is.. some of those mountains have volcanic eruptions, so you'd see fire rupture from above the snow and ice.
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