Here is the top 10 most beautiful and dangerous mountain in the world if you are interested you will find a short description about every mountain and why they are on this top (click on mountain name if you want to read the article).

#10 Mount Fuji, Japan

#9 Mount McKinley, Alaska, S.U.A

#8 Mount Charro Chalten, Patagonia

#7 Mount Matterhorn, Italy

#6 Mount Washington, USA

#5 Mount Everest, Nepal

#4 Kangchenjunga, India & Nepal

#3 Mount Nanga Parbat, Pakistan

#2 Mount Annapurna, Nepal

#1 Mount K2, Pakistan & China

Let us know if you have another opinion.

Chalten dangerous? You say "the Mount Fitz Roy took many lives annually" but this is simply not true. Chalten goes years where nobody dies at all.

Otherwise, it's just a list of nice mountains.

With bad mistakes - for K2 you say ".. the sad reputation of "Killer of Women." From the six mountaineers who have climbed over time, only one, Edurne Pasaban of Spain, escaped with his life."

What about Nives Meroi, Ms. Oh Eun-Sun, Cecilie Skog? All these three women summiters are very much alive!

What about Minya Konka / Gonga Shan, a beautiful mountain where more people have died on it than have summited? Or Kawa Karpo, the holy mountain where 17 climbers were killed and no one has ever summited? Or Peak Lenin, where 43 climbers were killed in one avalanche?

rcerber wrote:Here is the top 10 most beautiful and dangerous mountain in the world if you are interested you will find a short description about every mountain and why they are on this top (click on mountain name if you want to read the article).

#10 Mount Fuji, Japan

#9 Mount McKinley, Alaska, S.U.A

#8 Mount Charro Chalten, Patagonia

#7 Mount Matterhorn, Italy

#6 Mount Washington, USA

#5 Mount Everest, Nepal

#4 Kangchenjunga, India & Nepal

#3 Mount Nanga Parbat, Pakistan

#2 Mount Annapurna, Nepal

#1 Mount K2, Pakistan & China

Let us know if you have another opinion.

Having myself climbed Mount Fuji, I was very surprised to see it as the most dangerous mountain in he world. Mount Fuji is basically a hike, and the claim that it is dangerous to climb in the night is not true. Climbing Mount Fuji is a religious pilgrimage (I climbed it with three Japanese, so I know), every Friday at 8 p.m. several buses leave from Tokyo to drive up to the tree line, from which the mountain is ritually climbed at night. This involves no great danger as 1) everybody carries a torch, 2) people practically walk in line on a trail, 3) there are huts for every 150 meter/500 ft (with bottled oxygen!).

The only danger that I can think of is that you go from sea level to 3776 m/12540 ft. in less than 12 hours, the last 1500m/5000 ft. on foot, this gave me a rather queasy feeling in the stomach. And since it is a pilgrimage, a lot of people go there, who have never been on any mountain before, and are not fit for such a long, fairly steep hike. But I think that if one calculated the ratio of deaths per thousand climbers, Mount Fuji probable would be among the safest. And the view in clear weather is stunning.

dangerous.

Vitaliy M wrote:#6 Mount Washington, USA

ROFL Just drive up! No way this one belongs on the list. Not even in the top 150!

+1

prolly not even the top 1500!

most likely all the idiots from Boston do stupid things there is why it made the list.

Wow, the number of factual errors on the Mt Washington page is truly impressive for such a short piece.

Why do people continue making lists like that? It's entirely subjective and what is considered "dangerous" to some may be "not dangerous" at all to others.

Here's a good summary of the death rate on the 8000m peaks.

Also, thought this article was interesting, noting that the sacred forest at the base of Fuji is the second most popular place to commit suicide behind the golden gate bridge. Then again, many would argue that any of the 8000m climbs = a suicide attempt.

Vitaliy M wrote:#6 Mount Washington, USA

ROFL Just drive up! No way this one belongs on the list. Not even in the top 150!

Well, it does claim lives. I would imagine that's the threshold for "dangerous". I was in one of the cabins on Hermit Lake after a summer ascent a few years ago and my 55 year old body was whacked. They came around looking for volunteers for a "rescue". Seemed someone had fallen off the headwall and the woman I/C wasn't going to leave the body up there overnight.

Ran it down on one of those guerneys that has a big airplane wheel underneath it.

Yes. Mount Washington is more dangerous than Denali. I am sure the author is experienced enough to know what they are talking about.

John Duffield wrote:


Ran it down on one of those guerneys that has a big airplane wheel underneath it.

the correct name is 'John's Wheel'

The rate should be normalized by the number of attempts:

# deaths/attempt

and # deaths/summit

fossana wrote:The rate should be normalized by the number of attempts:

# deaths/attempt

and # deaths/summit

The article doesn't claim to have used any criteria at all, and it is apparent they didn't.

How about # deaths / attempt

and

# deaths / success

"success" being defined as getting up and back down. I'd consider summitting and dying on the descent as failure, especially if it were me...

Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is not.

Ed Veisturs

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