Earth’s Highest 7 (or 8+) Mountains by Continent (“Seven Summits”)

First slide is profile imagery simplified from draped earth imagery 3D viewed horizontally with 2x vertical exaggeration. Profile summit heights are plotted approximately and are not vertically scaled.

Second slide is Mount Everest Creative Commons photo

Third slide is an NOAA infographic titled “Highest mountain on Earth?”

Fourth slide is a map of all mentioned summits in the video over a NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center mapping of tectonism and volcanism during the last one million years.

Keywords: Geography Viz, World Geography, Highest Mountains, Seven Summits, Richard Bass, Reinhold Messner, Mountain Types and Tectonic/Volcanic Settings, Mount Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Vinson Massif, Mount Elbrus, Mount Kosciuszko,Puncak Jaya, Mont Blanc, Mount Chimborazo, Mauna Kea

List of summits featured in video with elevation, Seven Summit list rank [x], and type of mountain origin if in a region of high activity during the last million years:

Mount Everest, 8,849 m [1], collisional orogeny
Aconcagua, 6,961 m [2], stratovolcano
Denali, 6,194 m [3], subduction orogeny
Kilimanjaro, 5,895 m [4], stratovolcano
Mount Elbrus, 5,642 m [5], stratovolcano
Vinson Massif, 4,892 m [6], ancient uplift
Puncak Jaya, 4,884 m [7a], subduction orogeny
Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 m [7b], ancient uplift
Mont Blanc, [highest fully in Europe], collisional orogeny
Mount Chimborazo, [highest from Earth center], stratovolcano
Mauna Kea, [highest from sea floor base], hotspot shield volcano

Inspirational graphics and source information:

[aaronsadlo]

I wish your videos were longer they’re all so good

[HamdanSalahudin]

(Puncak Jaya) Located in Papua, Indonesia🇮🇩

[RFE]

I heard some people say that Aconcagua & Denali are on the same continent apparently. Even the Spanish wiki page says they are for whatever reason.

[nelsonsoares]

I know this list is for above sea level mountains - volcanos but I'd like to add to this super video the island of the Azores >> ..According to the Guinness Book of Records, Mount Pico of the Azores is the highest underwater mountain face in the world. Above sea level, it rises an impressive 7, 700 feet (2.3km) as an almost perfect volcanic cone with a sharp top. Underwater, however, it plunges deeper than it rises above sea level, descending 3km to the nearby sea floor, and eventually a total of 6, 000 meters to the Atlantic’s lowest point to the far south. It’s a monster of a mountain. If the Atlantic was still below you it’d be impressive enough, but without it, the full glory of this epic massif is revealed.... No wonder the locals call it Magic Mountain ., proud & fortunate to have climbed this monster of a peek not once, not twice but 3 times & I can honestly tell you there are no more beautiful & breathtaking sunrises & sunsets then from the top of Mount Pico, a 360 degrees view above the Atlantic Ocean & with an Ocean of stars, galaxies, planets & so on above you, you truly feel like you're on top of the world & in outer space at same time, , a very special & unique feeling indeed, a feeling that changed my & many others life for the better... all of the 9 islands are a true paradise, good thing respectful & thankful people who treasure nature inhabit this special place or else this unique place would have been destroyed years ago... Thanks for the upload.

[smoceany]

i hate mount chimborazo with every bone in my body its not the tallest in any measure its so stupid, oh yeah also fun fact, mount denali is the tallest mountain, base to peak, thats located entirely on land, and mulanje massif is the tallest (non-volcanic) mountain thats not in a mountain range