The 5 Highest Mountains on Every Continent
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The list for Oceania is not complete. All five highest peaks are in West Papua and the fifth highest remains unclimbed at this point. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_mountains_of_New_Guinea
(Also it’s more accurate to call it the Australian continental plate than Oceania)
It seems the fifth highest peak (Puncak Yamin) was in fact climbed in 2018 by an Indonesian expedition. That still leaves the sixth highest unclimbed. . .
Oceania is not a continent
Could have Said Aconcagua ia the highest mountain outside the Himalayas.
Could have said Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside the Himalayas.
Interesting, thanks Matthew.
But Mt Epperly is ‘only’ around 4512m, as we made the 3rd ascent (#1&2 both by Loretan) in 2008 and measured it. The 4th and 5th highest are either Mt Gardner (which we measured at 4573m in 2005) or Mt Kirkpatrick 4528m, which, being in the Transantarctic Mountains was too far away and expensive for us to get to 😉
http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web07-08w/newswire-antarctica-omega-epperly-gps
And you need Sumantri in before Mandala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Stangl#Table_of_the_Triple_Seven_Summits
Sumanatri is generally regarded as a sub summit of Puncak Jaya . Strangl climbed it “just in case” (along with a number of other “just in case” peaks)
The best list is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_mountains_of_New_Guinea
Thanks for all of your feedback. @Ipgon – we have added in your fact, thanks. @Kay – thanks for pointing this out. For this piece, we’ve listed it as Oceania as this is the same term used on some Seven Summits lists. @anonymous – Thanks for this. We have made a correction to the piece based on this. Although, we haven’t listed Ngga Pulu or Carstenz East as they are all in close proximity to one another (and Sumantri and Ngga Pulu are in the same sub-range). Although we’ve added Trikora and Ngga Pilimsit to the list. @damiengildea – Excellent,… Read more »