Pootoo

Pootoo.—The most lovely spot in Far Cathay is the sacred isle of Pootoo, two hundred miles from Shanghai, and sixty from Ningpo, from which latter city, in another direction overland, is reached the far-famed Snowy Valley. The route to Pootoo is among hundreds of islands, great and small, all mountainous, which compose the Chusan archipelago, and as the steamer winds its tortuous way among them, every variety of wild scenery is presented; now the precipitous rocks and projecting headlands, the barren knolls and rugged crags; then the mountains covered with trees, and hills beautifully terraced to the top with waving fields of grain; or villages nestling in little bays, or encircled in foliage, lying on the water's edge; indeed in its approaching views and receding vistas it is a twin-sister of the inland Sea of Japan. Pootoo is the capital of Indo-Chinese Buddhism, and its renown is as far- famed as the Chinese language is spoken or Chinese literature known.

1886, Hampden Coit DuBose, The Dragon, Image, and Demon, London: S. W. Partridge and Co., →OCLC, pages 274–275:

Some people in Amoy still persist in sailing about five hundred miles on old sailing junks to the Pootoo Islands off the coast of Ningpo every spring.

1936, Lin Yutang, My County & My People, Singapore: Heinemann Asia, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 124:

They still frequented the casinos and went to St Anna Ballroom in Love Lane and to cabarets at Ladow’s Casanova or Del Monte’s where the curfew could be seen off in style until dawn when it was lifted. They still took their breaks in places like Soochow or Hangchow or on the island called Pootoo, where the ‘trouble’ was made to seem far away.

2002, Denis Way, Robert Nield, Counting House: The History of PricewaterhouseCoopers on the China Coast, PricewaterhouseCoopers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93:


Sierra Madre

in southwestern California: Sierra Madre (California)


Cardamom Mountains

From the high amount of cardamom herbs grown in the region.

A mountain range in southwest Cambodia and eastern Thailand.


Chu-mu-lang-ma

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 珠穆朗瑪／珠穆朗玛 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ), Wade-Giles romanization: Chu¹-mu⁴-lang³-ma³.

The topography of China is irregular, with Chu-mu-lang-ma Peak rising to a height of 8,848 meters above sea level and the basin of T'u-lu-fan [Turfan] lying at a depth of 300 meters below sea level.

1959, Po-chieh Kêng, Botanical Geography of China by Regions, page 6:

Our young scientific workers and technical personnel must emulate the glorious heroes who scaled Mount Chu-mu-lang-ma by answering promptly the great call of the Party -- "draw ambitious plans and make strong decisions; use all efforts to climb the highest summit." The red banner of victory in Mao Tse-tung ideology should be flying on the apex of every natural science theory all over the world!

1960 October 7 [1960 July 14], Chou Pʻei-yuan (周培源), Rapidly Ascend to the Peak of Natural Sciences Theories, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 4:

We must work with determination to eliminate the deficiencies of sciences in China. Like climbing the Chu-mu-lang-ma Mountain, we must pep ourselves up to work and fight with the confidence as in the proverb, "Where there's a will there's a way." Then you shall get to the peak of science.

1961 September 11 [1961 June 18], Su Pu-chʻing (苏步青), “DISCUSSION OF PROBLEMS IN OUR ATTITUDE IN STUDYING”, in Kuang-ming Jih-pao, number 9, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 72:

Peking, on the other hand, first indicated an assertive attitude toward Nepal in the late spring of 1952, when it renamed Mt. Everest, which lies on the borders of China and Nepal, Chu-mu-lang-ma.

1963, Shen-Yu Dai, “Peking, Katmandu and New Delhi”, in The China Quarterly, number 16, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 88:

An eastern Himalayan peak of 29,028 ft above sea level on the Tibet-Nepal border (in an area first designated Chu-mu-lang-ma on a map of 1717) was discovered to be the world's highest mountain in 1852 by the Survey Department of the Government of India, from theodolite readings taken in 1849 and 1850.

1980, Norris McWhirter, editor, Guinness World Records 1981 Edition, Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 141:

Lily sat in her chair, under her blanket, seventy-six years old, an age she called 'impossible'. Mostly she slept. When she was awake she watched the rock approach, a dot of stern darkness against the sparkling ocean, and Boris listened dutifully as Grannie Lily told him about the strange days when the world had been all rock and hardly any sea, and nobody swam or ate fish, not unless they wanted to. In those days, she said, this particular rock had had various names, old ones like Chu-mu-lang-ma, and young names like Everest. And it was special because this would soon be the only rock left sticking out of the ocean, anywhere in the world.

2008, Stephen Baxter, Flood, Gollancz, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 533:

Alternative form of Zhumulangma (refers to Mount Everest).


Yoro

en-proper-noun

Yoro (countable and uncountable, plural Yoros)

* (Honduras): Spanish Yoro
* (Japan): Japanese 養老 (“ようろう”) (Yōrō (Yōrō))

gloss

<i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">Yōrō</i> (Yōrō)

A placename
A location in Honduras
A mountain in Honduras

Ellipsis of Yoro Mountains.; A mountain range in Japan

Ellipsis of Mount Yoro.; A mountain in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, in the Yoro Mountains


Maipo

A volcano in the Andes, on the border between Chile and Argentina.


Osorno

en-proper noun

Osorno (countable and uncountable, plural Osornos)

Borrowed from Spanish Osorno, possibly related to Basque osoren (“complete”).

A volcano situated between Osorno province and Llanquihue province, Chile, named after the city.


Tower Hill

An inactive volcano in Victoria, Australia.


Mount Kosciuszko

The mountain was named by the Polish explorer Paweł Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of Polish freedom fighter General Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków, Poland

A mountain in Australia; the highest peak in mainland Australia


Mount Hagen

Mount Hagen
Mount Hagen (volcano)
de:Curt von Hagen

Named after Curt von Hagen (1859–1897), German colonial officer.

Western Highlands
Western Highlands#English

Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea#English

A volcano in Western Highlands and Enga Provinces, Papua New Guinea.


Bunker Hill

The hill in Boston was named after 17th-century landowner George Bunker, originally as Bunker's Hill, and amended later.

A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:


Mount Gould

A few mountains around the world, in California, Montana, Tasmania and Antarctica.


Ingleborough

A mountain in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD7474).


Whernside

A mountain on the border of Cumbria and North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD7381).


Helvellyn

From Cumbric *hal (“marsh, moor”) + Cumbric *melin (“yellow”).

A mountain in Eden district, Cumbria, in the Lake District of England (OS grid ref NY3415).


Luyendyk

en-proper-noun

Luyendyk (countable and uncountable, plural Luyendyks)

Fosdick Mountains
Fosdick Mountains#English

Ellipsis of Mount Luyendyk.: A mountain in the Fosdick Mountains, Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, Antarctica


Nyiragongo

Mount Nyiragongo
Mount Nyiragongo#English

Virunga Mountains
Virunga Mountains#English

Virunga National Park
Virunga National Park#English

Nyiragongo Territory
Nyiragongo Territory#English

Democratic Republic of the Congo#English

Ellipsis of Mount Nyiragongo.; A volcano and mountain in the Virunga Mountains, Virunga National Park, Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo


Mount Stephen

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A mountain in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada, named after George Stephen of the Canadian Pacific Railway.


Lüliang

My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.

2000, Aiping Mu, Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81:

An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and nine newborns out of a hundred are defective births.

2009, Yulin Zhang, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 165:


Mount Lofty

A mountain, the highest point in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia.


Mount Emei

Partial calque from Mandarin 峨眉山 (Éméi Shān).

As his most significant contribution to the vast body of art he emulated, Chang effected a synthesis of two historical modes, the austere tonal ink style of the scholar-artist painter and the brightly colored, vibrantly detailed style of the court artist. The two are joined in his depiction of Mount Emei, a Buddhist pilgrimage site that Chang visited many times.

1992 May 15, Holland Cotter, “Review/Art; Restating and Adapting Images of China's Past”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, Arts:

The journey from Chengdu to Mount Emei takes five hours but with quite long stops on the way.

1993, Roger Phillips, Martyn Rix, The Quest for the Rose, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 52:

“Also, that American on Mount Emei was very white,” he said. “His skin was so white and bad-looking! But you're actually a little yellow—you look more Chinese. Your skin is much better than his!”

2001, Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, London: John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 202:

Farmers near Mount Emei in Sichuan province blocked a highway to protest against an aluminium company they said was responsible for the leak that contaminated grapes and other crops, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a fax.

2007 July 13, “China farmers protest toxic gas leak-report”, in Reuters (Latest Crisis), archived from the original on 2022-09-10:

A mountain in Emeishan, Leshan, Sichuan, China.


Punchbowl

→ Korean: 펀치볼 (Peonchibol)

From punch bowl. From being a bowl-shaped valley.
* (New South Wales): From being a circular valley in Belfield. The suburb of Punchbowl is named after the valley of Punch Bowl in neighbouring Belfield.
* (Korea): Coined by United Nations forces during the Korean War, when they fought a battle there.

Punchbowl Crater
Punchbowl Crater#English

Ellipsis of Punchbowl Crater.; A volcano in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States


Matroosberg

From Dutch or Afrikaans matroos berg, named after a rock formation.

A mountain in the Hex River Mountains, Western Cape, South Africa.


Mount Morgan

A number of mountains in various places.


Jemez

The Jemez Mountains, a small mountain range in New Mexico.


Chumulangma

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin for 珠穆朗瑪／珠穆朗玛 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ), Wade-Giles romanization: Chu¹-mu⁴-lang³-ma³.

zh-l

珠穆朗瑪／珠穆朗玛 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ)

For the record, Sir Edmund asked the Chinese for permission to climb “Mt. Everest.” But Peking does not officially recognize Everest; Sir Edmund was refused permission to climb “Chumulangma” — presumably the way the Panchen Lama spells it.

1959 April 20, “'Inadequate Conditions'”, in Sports Illustrated, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

"The Chinese mountaineers," he continued, "are a contingent fearing neither hardship nor death, back in 1960 and 1975 they twice ascended Mt Chumulangma from the north slope.

1977 August 26 [1977 August 25], Hsu Yin-sheng, quotee, “Peking 25 Aug Rally Welcomes Chinese Mountain Climbers”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 166, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 1:

The procession was heading toward Chumulangma, the most distant of the six mountains.

2000, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Wheelers, Warner Books, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 463:

Alternative form of Zhumulangma (refers to Mount Everest).


Cumbre Vieja

From Spanish Cumbre Vieja (literally “old summit”).

bor

A volcano in La Palma, Canary Islands, in the Atlantic, part of Macaronesia, of the Africa, belonging to Spain


Ben More

A mountain on the Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM5233).

A mountain near Crianlarich, Stirling council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN4324).


Whatcom

From Lummi Saanich Xwotʼqom, meaning "noisy water", for what is now Whatcom Falls.

North Cascades National Park
North Cascades National Park#English

North American Cordillera
North American Cordillera#English

Ellipsis of Whatcom Peak.; A mountain in North Cascades National Park, Washington, United States, in the Cascades Range, North American Cordillera, North America, Americas


Sumas

From Halkomelem Semá:th, from semá:th (“big level opening”), for the lowland area surrounding Sumas Lake.

Ellipsis of American Sumas.; A mountain in Whatcom, Washington, United States, in the Skagit Range, Cascades Range, North American Cordillera, North America, Americas

American Sumas

Ellipsis of Canadian Sumas.; A mountain in Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada, in the Fraser Lowland, Cascades Range, North American Cordillera, North America, Americas


Tatlow

en-proper-noun

Tatlow (countable and uncountable, plural Tatlows)

Central Interior
Central Interior#English

Chilcotin Ranges
Chilcotin Ranges#English

Ellipsis of Mount Tatlow.; A mountain in Central Interior, Interior, British Columbia, Canada, part of the Chilcotin Ranges, Pacific Ranges, Coast Mountain, North American Cordillera, North America, Americas


Omicron

Ellipsis of Omicron Hill.; A mountain in North Slope borough, Alaska, United States


Snaefell

From Old Norse snær (“snow”) + fjall (“mountain”).

A mountain, the highest in the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC3988).


Pir Panjal Range

A group of mountains in the Lesser Himalayan region.


Great Himalayas

The highest mountain range of the Himalayas.


Nilgiri

A mountain range forming part of the Western Ghats in western Tamil Nadu, India.


New Guinea Highlands

A long chain of mountain ranges on the island of New Guinea.


Pikes Peak

A mountain, a fourteener in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, named after Zebulon Pike.


Dotsero

A dormant volcano in central Colorado, United States.


Canigou

From French Canigou, from Catalan Canigó.

A mountain the Pyrénées-Orientales department, southern France.


Chugach

A mountain range in Alaska, United States


Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai

From Hunga Tonga + Hunga Ha'apai. From Tongan Hunga Tonga+Hunga Ha‘apai.

A seamount and volcano in Tonga, Oceania, in the Tonga archipelago, Polynesia, Pacific ocean, that has two peaks that become the islets of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai


Wetterhorn

So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.

1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:

A mountain peak near Grindelwald, in the Swiss Alps, Switzerland.


Hozomeen

From Salishan, perhaps specifically Thompson [Term?].

[…] and after that first time suddenly realizing “It’s me that’s changed and done all this and come and gone and complained and hurt and joyed and yelled, not the Void” and so that every time I thought of the void I’d be looking at Mt. Hozomeen (because chair and bed and meadowgrass faced north) until I realized “Hozomeen is the Void—at least Hozomeen means the void to my eyes”—Stark naked rock, pinnacles and thousand feet high protruding from hunch-muscles another thousand feet high protruding from immense timbered shoulders, […]

1965, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels, page 3:

A mountain in Washington, United States.


Paektu

The land border is 636 miles long (1,025 km), most of it with China but the last 11 miles of it at the eastern end, with Russia. The border follows two rivers, the westward-flowing Yalu and the east-flowing Tumen, both of which arise from springs on the slopes of Mount Paektu, the sacred peak that is part of the "Ever-white Mountains" on the northeastern border.

2000, Donald N. Clark, “The Story of the Korean People”, in Culture and Customs of Korea, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

The Tuman and Yalu rivers dividing Korea and China source from one mountain, Mt Paektu. This volcanic mass of frozen lava smashed out from the wide, elevated planes of dense forest and bogs surrounding it over a million years ago, and has a powerful spiritual symbolism for the Korean people, as indicated in the local tourist literature:[...]Paektu is the backdrop for many of the almighty mosaics and paintings seen across Korea, and its significance for all Koreans is evinced by the dominance of South Koreans in the thriving tourist industry on the Chinese side of the mountain.

2008, Robert Willoughby, “Mt Paektu”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 197:

Article 169. The national emblem of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea bears the design of a grand hydroelectric power station under Mt. Paektu, the sacred mountain of the revolution, and the beaming light of a five-pointed red star, with ears of rice forming an oval frame, bound with a red ribbon bearing the inscription “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”

2017, Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 36–37:

A mountain on the border between Jilin, China and Ryanggang Province, North Korea.


Mount Union

A mountain in the Bradshaw Mountains, Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.


Ha Ling Peak

From Chinese. Named for a male Chinese rail worker, the first person known to have climbed the mountain peak, on a bet and a dare. The name Ha Ling Peak was suggested by the newspaper Medicine Hat News on 22 October 1896, in a story about the climb; its previous nickname was The Beehive. The peak was eventually formally officially named "Chinaman's Peak" in 1980, but was changed in 1997 to Ha Ling Peak due to people finding "Chinaman" offensive.

(former names)

Mount Lawrence Grassi
Mount Lawrence Grassi#English

A peak in Mount Lawrence Grassi, Ehagay Nakoda, Canmore, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada


Tibesti Mountains

A mountain range in the central Sahara, primarily located in the extreme north of Chad.


Cho Oyu

I had a good view of the glacier from here : the East side is very steep and broken, with several tributary glaciers flowing down from Cho Oyu and Pk. 25,909, and from a 23,000-foot Peak (not triangulated) to the North of the latter.

1922, E. O. Wheeler, “Appendix II: The Photographic Survey”, in Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 332:

This may seem a strange and unprofessional way of beginning the story of the ascent of a 26,000-foot mountain, but it was not just the wish to conquer a high peak that turned our thoughts to Cho Oyu; it was the longing for the boundless peace of evening such as these.
"Next year, Cho Oyu?" Pasang asked.
"Cho Oyu," I agreed.
Adjiba brought the fried liver of the goat.
"We go for Cho Oyu," Pasang told him.
"Aha," Adjiba said, cutting a cucumber into thin slices.
That's how we decided to attack the seventh highest mountain in the world.

1957 [1955], Herbert Tichy, “Turquoise Goddess”, in Basil Creighton, transl., Cho Oyu: Gnade der Götter by Ullstein Verlag [Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods], London: Methuen & Co, →OCLC, page 14:

Tingri lies at the edge of a vast plain. There are great views of the Himalayan giants to the south, assuming there's no cloud cover. Everest, or the uppermost part of it, is visible to the far left, but from this distance it doesn't look like a mammoth. However, Cho Oyu, straight ahead, looks stunning. It's worth taking a short hike to the south of Tingri for better views; another viewpoint is from the top of the hill above the village, where there are some old fort ruins.

2006 August, Michael Buckley, Tibet (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 200:

Rozov set a new world record in 2013 for the highest-ever base jump when he leapt from Changstse, a peak in the Everest massif towering at 7,220 metres in a specially-designed wingsuit.
He broke his own record three years later by jumping from a height of 7,700 metres on Mount Cho Oyu.

2017 November 12, “Russian base jumper dies in Nepal's Everest region”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2017-11-12:

A team of Nepali mountaineers has set out for Mt. Cho Oyu with a view to opening the first commercial route to the top of the world's sixth tallest peak from the Nepali side, officials and mountaineering agencies said.
"A team led by veteran Gelje Sherpa set out for Mt. Cho Oyu on Wednesday," Mingma Devid Sherpa, founder of the Elite Exped which is one of the sponsors of the expedition, told Xinhua.[...]
"Because of the low success rate from the Nepali side, we have failed to commercialize our existing routes," said Santa Bir Lama, president of Nepal Mountaineering Association. "The team is aiming to find the easiest way to Mt. Cho Oyu from the Nepal side."

2022 January 28, “Nepali team to explore 1st commercial route to Mt. Cho Oyu from southern side”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News, archived from the original on 2022-01-28:

When approached from the Tibet side, Cho Oyu is the safest of the 14 peaks. But Harila and her team had been forced to attempt it from the Nepal side because their visas and permits to enter Tibet had never been approved by the Chinese government. And even if they did accomplish this groundbreaking ascension of Cho Oyu, they would have no way to access the mission’s final peak as the Shishapangma mountain is entirely within Tibet.

2023 February 19, David Gardner, “A Race Up the World’s Tallest Mountains, and for Gender Equality”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-19, Sports:

A mountain in the Himalayas on the border between Solukhumbu district, Koshi, Nepal and Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the world’s sixth highest mountain.


Mount Royal

A mountain in the Mount Royal Range, New South Wales, Australia.


Namcha Barwa

Today, with nearly all the great peaks already climbed (except Namcha Barwa, 25,700 feet, which the Chinese are reserving for themselves, having tried and failed three times so far), mountaineers try for new and harder routes, as well as faster times, forever narrowing the safety margin.

1985 March 7, Michael Kernan, “Call of the Climb”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-01:

A mountain in Mêdog, Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.


Altyn Tagh

From Uyghur ئالتۇن تاغ (altun tagh, “golden mountain”).

der

THIS is a personal story, with a physical background stretching from the River Don in Russia across Siberia, down through Mongolia and Northwestern China to the lofty, inhospitable Altyn Tagh, first step to the Kunlun ranges bordering Tibet.

1942 October 4, Jane Spence Southron, “Secret Army; THE GOLDEN HORDE. By La Selle Gilman. 466 pp. New York Smith & Durrell. $2.75.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:

Tibet is awash in superlatives. It is the highest country on earth and the most mountainous, with three-quarters of the country’s territory lying at 16,000 feet or higher, a full three miles above sea level. It’s ringed by world-class mountain ranges on three sides. In the north, the Altyn Tagh range separates Tibet from China’s Xinjiang province and the Gobi desert.

2011, Stephan Talty, “An Examination of Prior Memories”, in Escape from the Land of Snows (History), New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

From the Qaidam basin, trains will tunnel through the Altyn-Tagh — a mountain range that separates the eastern Tarim basin from the Tibetan plateau.

2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 2020-11-07:


Greater Khingan

"I swear the real Jonathan Marl is miles away in the Great Khingan Range in the gulag at Pokotu."[…]
"What about Jonathan?"
"That he was being held prisoner in Manchuria, Pokotu in the Great Khingan Range to be exact."

[1984 December, Gloria Vitanza Basile, chapter 26, in The Sting of the Scorpion (Global 2000 Trilogy), volume III (Fiction), New York: Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 463, 464:

The north Eurasian plain is not only Russia's geographical setting, but also her fate. From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge expanse of flat, open territory dominates the Eurasian continent.

2001 July 8, Geoffrey Hosking, “"Russia and the Russians: A History"”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-16, First Chapter:

The second outbreak is in the remote Greater Khingan Mountains in Inner Mongolia, where 210 of the 222 wild boar raised on the farm died, the ministry said in a separate statement. The rest have been slaughtered, it said.

2019 February 24, Ben Blanchard, Hou Xiangming, “China reports two new African swine fever outbreaks”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-05-25, ワールド:

The Company’s current facility is located in Tahe County, Heilongjiang Province, near the Greater Khingan Range, in close proximity to its suppliers.

2022 January 31, “CN Energy’s Subsidiary Completes New Manufacturing Facility”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-30:


Mazartag

Borrowed from Uyghur مازارتاغ (mazartagh).

In the course of marine incursion and sedimentation, the sea only reached the Wuqia area during the late Eocene, but in Palaeocene - middle Eocene, marine conditions extended eastwards into the desert of the Mazartag area, and southwards, probably into the Aqqik area of Lop.

1996, Zhou Zhiyi, W. T. Dean, editors, Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China, Beijing: Science Press, →OCLC, page 125:

Several small mountain ranges and chains, composed of sandstones and clays of Cenozoic age (i.e., formed within about the past 65 million years), rise in the western part of the desert. The arc-shaped Mazartag Mountains, located between the Hotan and Yarkand (Ye’erqiang) river valleys, arch toward the southwest.

2011, “Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Deserts and Steppes, 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:

Two days later I was in the middle of the Taklamakan desert. I had driven there, along a new road that cuts past a major landmark, the low lying ridge of the Mazartag mountains that come to an abrupt end at the Hetian river. There’s a ruined Tibetan fort on the top of the mountains’ end, overlooking the river. It dates from the 18th century when the Tibetan empire stretched northwards to the Tianshan mountains. Below the fort was the site of a resupply point from the expedition. I wanted to show my children.[...]
We had an eventful drive through a blinding sandstorm, a couple of police checkpoints, and then along a sandy track off the main road that was too much for the car. We dug it out. Then the rain began—rain, in the desert. We set up camp and cooked supper. The wind had died to nothing. It was a beautiful evening. In the west the Mazartag ridge glowed red in the setting sun.

2013 August 25, Mark Kitto, “Phantom enemies”, in Prospect, archived from the original on 2013-08-27, Essays:

A mountain range in Xinjiang, China, in the Taklamakan Desert.


Sangre de Cristo Mountains

Meronym: Sangre de Cristo Range

The southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains.


Quarantine

Than turned we vp in to Quarantene

a. 1500, The Pilgrymage and the Wayes of Jerusalem ("Stations of Jerusalem"), HM 144, [https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/manifest/c7848d41bd1fed02b0af37c3a5bf7359f61fa800?tify={%22pages%22:[170],%22view%22:%22thumbnails%22} fol. 80 rev.]

Mount of Temptation
Mount of Temptation#English


Quarantania

II. Mount Quarantania

1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus: A Mystery, Pt. I: Divine Tragedy, Sect. I: "The First Passover"


Mount of Temptation

Monastery of the Temptation
Mount of Temptation

(Christianity mythology) The supposed location of the Temptation of Christ in the early 1st century.


Quarentena

We went up mount Quarantena in company with ſome eccleſiaſticks, having an Arabian for our guide. Formerly the Arabians concealed themſelves in the cavities of this mountain, and would not ſuffer the Franks to come up; but at preſent the fathers of the Holy Land pay ten piaſters per annum caphar, or paſſage-money, and thus have free acceſs to the ſummit of it. The aſcent is very toilſome, being moſtly up a rock, that without aſſiſtance it would ſcarce be practicable in ſome places.

1759, translating Johannes Aegidius van Egmont van der Nijenburg & al. as Travels through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c., Vol. I, p. 329


Scheibenberg

Unadapted borrowing from German Scheibenberg.

ubor

a mountain in the Ore Mountains near the town of Scheibenberg, Germany


Koupalu

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯀꯧꯕꯔꯨ (koubaroo).

A mountain in northwestern Manipur, India.


Bärenstein

Unadapted borrowing from German Bärenstein.

a mountain in the Ore Mountains near the town of Bärenstein, Germany


Kumgang

The only direct connection from the ROK to the DPRK is by the Hyundai corporation ferry that sails from Hyundai Sokcho ferry terminal, taking short tours (three or four days) to the Mt Kumgang area on North Korea’s southeast coast.

2008, Robert Willoughby, “Practical Information”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 71:

Mount Kumgang, or Geumgangsan, which translates as Diamond Mountain, has always been a muse for Koreans. Poets and artists have been celebrating it in their works since well before the Middle Ages.

2018 December 13, “North and South Korea meet through handshakes and art”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2018-12-13, Arts:

A mountain in Kangwon Province, North Korea.


Changtse

Once I'd established a balance and rhythm to skiing and breathing, I switched off the headlamp. Suddenly my world expanded from a small swath of lit snow to the immense darkness of the place. The tongue of the glacier I was climbing led up toward the North Col, 3,000 feet above me. To my right the great wall of the North Face rose 9,000 feet. On the left, Changtse loomed 5,000 feet high.

1988 April 17, Liz Nichol, “EVEREST IS CHALLENGING_WITHIN LIMITS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-02:

Preparation for the attempt had begun six years earlier when a climb on the neighbouring 7,500m peak of Changtse had been prevented by bad weather.

2013 May 12, Graeme Lennox, “‘I’m on the summit of the world’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-19:

In 2013, he jumped from an altitude of 7,220 meters on Changtse and landed on the Central Rongbuk Glacier at the foot of the North Face of Mount Everest.

2017 November 11, “Valery Rozov killed in an accident on Ama Dablam”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2020-12-03:

In between base camp and the next camp (6,065 metres), at the base of Changtse sits the dangerous Khumbu Icefall (between 5,486 and 5,791 metres).

2024 May 9, Kamala Thiagarajan, “How overcrowding on peaks like Everest and Himalayan trails leads to danger and a rise in trash despite Nepal’s rules”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-09, Travel & Leisure:

A mountain in Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China


Pine Mountain

A number of mountains in the United States.


Mount Ida

A number of mountains in various places.


Mount Sterling

A number of places in the United States:

A mountain in Haywood County, North Carolina, thought to contain silver (sterling silver), which turned out to be lead.


Lion Rock

From lion + rock.
* (Lion Rock, Kowloon): From being a rock formation having a form reminiscent of a crouching lion

Great Western Divide
Great Western Divide#English

A mountain in Tulare county, California, United States, on the Great Western Divide, in the Sierra Nevadas


Crown Point

A mountain in the Sierra Nevada, Mono County, California.


Bighorn Mountains

Calque of Crow Iisaxpúatahchee Isawaxaawúua (literally “bighorn sheep's mountains”).

calque

A mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States.


Castle Rock

A number of rock outcrops, mountains and islands in various places around the world. Many of the settlements are named after rock outcrops.


Uwharries

A forested mountain range in central North Carolina in the United States, formerly a coastal mountain range, now located far inland.


Unicois

A mountain range in the southern Appalachians, along the border between Tennessee and North Carolina; since 1932 defined as the southern segment (south of the Little Tennessee River, and north of the Hiwassee River) of a range the northern segment of which is known as the Unakas (historically the two names sometimes interchangeably designated the whole range).


Unaka

The very great fall of the waters having their source in the Blue ridge to the point where the Unaka is broken down by their current, and also views taken from midway elevations between those mountains, are satisfactory[…]

1836, C. Clarke, The Wonders of the World ... Illustrated by Engravings; a New Edition, Revised and Corrected by James Percival, page 258:

Of the two bounding chains the Unaka is the higher, but its crest does not form a continuous watershed. The rivers head upon the lower Blue Ridge to the east and flow westward across the mountainous belt and through gaps[…]

1899, Geological Survey (U.S.), Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, page 12:

A mountain range in the southern Appalachians, the Unakas.


Pen-y-ghent

From Cumbric pen (“top, summit”) + Cumbric *i(r) (“the, of the”) + either Cumbric gant (“border”) or Cumbric gint (“heathen, gentile”).

A mountain in Craven district, North Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Dales of England.


Black Mountains

A number of mountain ranges in the United States: in north-west Arizona, California, Nevada, North Carolina and Utah.


Flinders Ranges

A mountain range, the largest in South Australia, named after Matthew Flinders.


Waaihoek

A peak in the Hex River Mountains, Western Cape, South Africa, north-east of Cape Town.


Mount Washington

A number of mountains in the United States, including:

A mountain in New Hampshire, the highest in New England and the location of the Mount Washington Cog Railway.

Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island#English

A mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, named after John Washington (Royal Navy officer).


Longonot

Great Rift Valley
Great Rift Valley#English

A town and mountain nearby (an inactive volcano) in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya.


Mont Cenis

A mountain massif and pass in Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.


Peak 15

A designation from the Trigonometrical Survey of India, a British geographic survey of British India.

By 1856 it was clear to Waugh that Peak 15 was indeed the highest mountain as yet discovered in the world and he intended to honor his predecessor, the man who began the Great Trigonometrical Survey in the earliest years of the nineteenth century, by naming Peak 15 after him.

2007, Russell T. McCutcheon, “What's in a Name?”, in Studying Religion: An Introduction, Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 8-9:

Former name of Mount Everest; alternative form of Peak XV: a mountain in Himalayas, South Asia, on the border of Nepal and China in Tibet.


Jura Mountains

a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany.


Mount Parker

Named after Sir William Parker, Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy).

named-after

Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Shenstone

Church members climb up to “Jacob's Ladder” on Mount Parker at Hong Kong's Quarry Bay to pray for peace and harmony in the city.

1993 June 1, Jinbong Kim, Dwight P. Baker, J. Nelson Jennings, Megachurch Accountability in Missions:: Critical Assessment through Global Case Studies, William Carey Publishing, →ISBN, page 79:

A picture caption on Feb. 2 with an article about hiking in Hong Kong misstated the location of the trail shown. It is on Mount Parker, overlooking Quarry Bay on the northeast side of the island - not on the Dragon's Back ridge on the D'Aguilar Peninsula to the southeast.

2003 February 16, “Corrections”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-02:

The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.

2014, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 195:

The battalion moved quickly inland, ascending the north-facing slopes of Mount Parker. There are still old stepped paths that lead up from that part of the Island shore to the heights of Mount Parker.

2019 July 15, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

Rubble and water rushed down the side of Mount Parker near Chai Wan, where roads and parking garages sat under standing water. Huge rocks blocked roads in Shau Kei Wan.

2023 September 7, Meaghan Tobin, “Extreme rain in Hong Kong turns city streets into raging rivers”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-27, Asia:


Mount Butler

The first reached its objective but, attacked by superior numbers, was forced back next morning. The second found that the enemy was already holding Mount Butler and withdrew under heavy fire; the third held the road junction throughout the night despite heavy fire from Jardines Lookout.

1957, Stanley Woodburn Kirby, The War Against Japan: The loss of Singapore, page 131:

Responding to more orders from Maltby, who already seems to have been quite out of touch with reality, at about 0230 hours on the 19th Colonel Sutcliffe sent his A Company, under Major A.B. Gresham, to try and re-take the Lookout and make another attempt on Mount Butler.

2016, Brereton Greenhous, "C" Force to Hong Kong: A Canadian Catastrophe, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 80:

A typical day for her begins at 4:30 a.m., when she slips out of her employer’s apartment for a “sunrise jog,” a five-mile round-trip run to the summit of nearby Mount Butler, a 1,430-foot peak.

2019 May 25, Mary Hui, “‘Not Just a Maid’: The Ultra-Running Domestic Workers of Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-05-25, Asia Pacific:

First, there is a sharp descent, with the quarry on your left, then a steep set of stairs up to Mount Butler, which has a great view of its own. Head down Mount Butler and turn left down the wide tarmac road, which winds to Quarry Bay and finishes near exit A of the MTR.

2020 May 13, Mark Agnew, “The best hikes with views of Hong Kong – take in the skyline from a new and unique angle”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-14, Outdoor/Trail Running:


Mount Gough

Named after Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough.

2. Polygata arillata, Hamilt.–Wight et Arn. Prod. vol. i. p.39.
Very rare. A shrub on Mount Gough, and another on Mount Victoria (since destroyed by the Chinese), were all that had been seen.

1851, Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, page 261:

I was instructed to deliver the 6-inch How shells and cartridges to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough. I arrived at Aberdeen headquarters, where the lorries with loading parties and guards were waiting.

2009, Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 54:

Severn Road, which winds around Mount Gough just below Peak Road, is the most expensive residential street in the world - at HK$50,725 per square foot, up 72 per cent in a year.

2011 May 18, Alex Frew Mcmillan, “Magnificent heights of success”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-02:

Gough was buried in Dublin and an equestrian statue of him was erected in the Phoenix Park. It was later vandalised and moved to England. He was also commemorated by Mount Gough on Hong Kong island, which is now back in the hands of the Chinese.

2012, Joe O'Shea, Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem: The Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:

Central and Western
Central and Western#English

A peak in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.


Mount Nicholson

Perhaps named after Lieutenant W.C.A. Nicholson.

Meanwhile the Grenadiers, preparatory to the dawn attack, had been ordered to occupy a forward position astride Mount Nicholson.

1957, Stanley Woodburn Kirby, The War Against Japan: The loss of Singapore, page 137:

The southern anchor moves from Wong Nai Chung Gap to Mount Nicholson, then Mount Cameron, and finally Wan Chai Gap and a little west. Further south is the 'central sector'.

2003, Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

Of great ecological significance is the Nam Fung Road Woodland nestled at the southern foot of Mount Nicholson. The only Feng Shui forest on Hong Kong island, it dates back to the city’s earliest days, featuring the highest number of plant species recorded in Hong Kong, including plants of great conservation value(3).

2018 August 1, Nan Fung Group, “8 Deep Water Bay Drive – Mindful living meets luxury in the midst of nature”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-02, World:

Middle Gap is about halfway along Black's Link. It is the gap between Mount Cameron on the right and Mount Nicholson on the left. After passing Middle Gap, the righthand side of the track opens up while the left-hand side is protected by the slopes of Mount Nicholson.

2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:


Mount Cameron

Perhaps named after William Gordon Cameron.

Widely distributed on Hong Kong Island and in the Territories. Mount Cameron, the hills above the Tai-tam reservoirs, Mount Violet and Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island are particularly favoured localities.

1932, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist, volumes 3-4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206:

Cameron Mansions sits right on the summit of Mount Cameron, one of those sub-Peaks which nonetheless commands a panoramic view of the harbour.

1993 August 29, “My search for the secret samurai”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-03:

Middle Gap is about halfway along Black's Link. It is the gap between Mount Cameron on the right and Mount Nicholson on the left.


Victoria Peak

For non-hikers, this tram, in operation since 1888, takes passengers from the bottom of Hong Kong Island’s Central neighborhood up 1,312 feet on Victoria Peak, the island’s highest mountain.

2016 July 7, Dina Mishev, “Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-07-08:

This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.

2019 April 17, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, “House Hunting in … Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-17, Real Estate:

A mountain in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.


Mount Kellett

After quickly loading, I arranged with Capt Otway that I take the lorries loaded with 3.7-inch and 4.5-inch shell to Mount Kellett and Sanatorium gun positions and that he move the last three lorries loaded with 6-inch How ammunition to a rendezvous point, near the vicinity of the Government Dairy Farm situated at Pokfulam, where I was to return and collect the lorries to deliver the ammunition to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough.

2009 June 1, Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 63:

Matilda International Hospital ( 1907 - present ) Standing on Mount Kellett, overlooking Lamma Channel and South China Sea, Matilda Hospital is an historic building with handsome white Shanghai marble plaster walls […]

2006 January 1, Plague, SARS and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 130:

Details were recorded by an eyewitness, L. Gibbs, and published in the quarterly Hong Kong Naturalist, in 1931. In his account, Gibbs, who was living on Mount Kellett in 1893, vividly described the effects of several days of extreme cold on Hong Kong Island’s upper altitudes.

2016 April 2, Jason Wordie, “The big chill in Hong Kong: how 2016 compares to 1893, 1948”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-04, Opinion:

Will smirked to himself as he thought about them—Mount Kellett, Strawberry Hill and Mount Gough in the Peak district; Mount Cameron and Mount Nicholson enclosing Happy Valley, Mount Davis towering over the western approach to the harbour.

2023 January 19, Siobhan Daiko, The Flame Tree, Asolando Books, page https://books.google.com/books?id=fYadEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT81:


High West

Helicina Hungerfordiana, von Mildff. Found at High West (Hongkong) by Dr. Hungerford, Dr. von Müllendorff, and the writer; at Tung-chow (near Macao) by Dr. Hungerford and self.

1883, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 234:

On the 22nd of January a single bird was seen to pass low over Mount Kellett. Over the western slopes it was attacked and mobbed by four Kites as it crossed their nesting ground, and the five birds wheeled round one another for two or three minutes; the Eagle occasionally giving a series of seven or eight yelps, while the Kites were screaming with rage. The pursuit was abandoned as the Eagle passed over High West.

We paused at High West — the westernmost point of the trail — where a small park provides a perfect rest stop. From here the path turns south toward the Pok Fu Lam Reservoir.

2002 May 24, Katherine Tanko, “Get away from the bustle and take a walk on the wild side : The other view of Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-09, Style:

The 230th have all three battalions in the Jardine's Lookout area, preparing to attack westwards with a final objective of High West.

2003, Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 174:

Just west of Victoria Peak is the 494m High West, a mountain offering tremendous panoramic views with a fraction of the crowds. The only caveat? You have to hike to get here.

2017, Lonely Planet, Emily Matchar, Piera Chen, Lonely Planet Hong Kong, Lonely Planet, →ISBN:

A footpath leads alongside a stream, then winds up to a car park above the garden. A minute or so from here, there is a vantage point with fine views to the western harbour, Lamma, and a nearby, slightly lower peak, High West.

2020 January 21, Martin Williams, “It’s a great time to explore Hong Kong with protests keeping tourists away, so put your hiking shoes on and get up The Peak”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-21, Travel & Leisure:


Tate's Cairn

Probably named after George Passman Tate.

Tea is cultivated in several places in the New Territories, e.g., in the Shing Mun valley and at the villages lying in the higher mountain valleys about Tate's Cairn and Buffalo Hill.

1906, Hong Kong. Botanical, Forestry Department, Annual Report of the Forestry Department of Hong Kong, page 9:

To the north of Kowloon Peak the ridge dips and rises to Middle Hill and Tate's Cairn, then bends sharply to the west and continues over Temple Hill, Lion Rock and Beacon Hill.

1936, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist:

The first installation was a Decca storm warning radar with a maximum range of 250 nautical miles based on top of Tate's Cairn. This equipment was used for nearly 20 years, until June 1979.

1983, Anthony Dyson, From Time Ball to Atomic Clock:

Of all the sights in the world, few can compare with a place Dave and I discovered called Tate's Cairn, a modest hill back in the New Territories whose summit commanded a majestic oversight of the then colony.

2012, Graham Fisher, “Innocents Abroad”, in A Kiss and a Cup of Tea, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:

The maximum sustained winds recorded at Waglan Island, Tate’s Cairn and Cheung Chau Beach were 113, 101 and 97 kmh (70, 62, 60 mph) respectively, with maximum gusts 135, 154 and 130 kmh (84, 96, 81 mph)

2017 August 26, Anne Marie Roantree, Venus Wu, “Battered Hong Kong and Macau brace for Pakhar, more flooding”, in Andrew Hay, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-08-05, COMMODITIES NEWS:

A peak in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.


Harghita

Borrowed from Romanian Harghita, from Hungarian Hargita.

A volcanic mountain range in central Romania, part of the Eastern Carpathians.


Ma On Shan

A peak in Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Stanovoy

A mountain range in Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.


Mount San Antonio

San Gabriel Mountains
San Gabriel Mountains#English

Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County#English

A mountain in the San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, United States.


Mount Baldy

Mount Baldy’s proximity to Los Angeles and natural beauty have long attracted both visitors and locals in a region known for its outdoorsy culture.

2023 February 11, Katharine Gammon, “A mountain of trouble? The draw – and danger – of California’s Mount Baldy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Mount San Antonio, a mountain in the San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, United States.

A mountain in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

A mountain in Beaver County, Utah, United States.

Canadian Rockies
Canadian Rockies#English

A mountain in the Canadian Rockies, Canada.


Tronador

An extinct volcano in the southern Andes, on the border between Argentina and Chile.


Table Mountain

The name of a number of mountains in various places, including:

A flat-topped mountain overlooking Cape Town, South Africa.


Scafell Pike

A mountain in Cumbria, the highest in England (OS grid ref NY2107).


Wicklow Mountains

A mountain range mostly located in County Wicklow, Ireland, with some parts extending into County Dublin, County Wexford, and County Carlow.


Lugnaquilla

Borrowed from Irish Log na Coille (literally “hollow of the wood”).

bor+

Wicklow Mountains
Wicklow Mountains#English

A mountain in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland.


San Francisco Peaks

A mountain range in Coconino County, Arizona, United States.


Table Mountains

Probably a calque of Polish Góry Stołowe.

A mountain range formed of sandstone in Poland and the Czech Republic, part of the Central Sudetes.

Stolové hory

sandstone mountain range in the Central Sudetes


Little Black Spot Mountain

Holonym: Navajo Nation

A mountain in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.


Balakai Mesa

Holonym: Navajo Nation

A mountain in Apache County and Navajo County, Arizona, United States.


Laurel Hill

A number of places in the United States:

A mountain ridge in the Alleghenies, Pennsylvania.


Wind River Range

Below the glaciers throughout the entire Wind River Range great numbers of morainal lakes are found.

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter III, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68:

The river looks terribly immense and powerful, swollen with snow-melt from the western slope of the Rockies and from the Wind River Range in Wyoming, a veritable Mississippi of a river rolling between redrock walls.

1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 153:

At the top of Beaver Mountain we saw the Wind River Range stretching white in the distance.

1986, John McPhee, Rising from the Plains; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 293:


Wind River Mountains

Some of the higher peaks of the Wind river mountains rise one thousand feet above the limits of perpetual snow.

1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:

The Wind River Mountains constitute one of the most imposing ranges of the United States.

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter III, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 67:

The peaks of the Wasatch notched the west, the barren Wyoming plateau northward swelled up toward South Pass and the snowy Wind River Mountains. Below their lookout rim was the valley of Henry’s Fork, old trapper country, and the lodge of Jim Baker, a squawman who had established a ranch against the mountain.

1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:

Wind River Range
Wind River Range#English


Pine Valley Mountains

[ Bill Williams River ] heads in the Markagunt Plateau and the Pine Valley Mountains of Utah.

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:


Belukha

From Russian Белуха (Beluxa, literally “Whitey”).

bor

The highest peak of the Altai Mountains in Russia and the highest of the system of the South Siberian Mountains.


Kinabalu

The highest mountain in Malaysia, located in the state of Sabah.


Mount Kembla

A suburb and mountain in the City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.


Front Range

A mountain range in Colorado and Wyoming, part of the Rocky Mountains


Mount Bethel

Mount Bethel (Colorado)
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania

Clear Creek County
Clear Creek County#English

A mountain in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.


Mount Barker

A city and mountain in South Australia; the city was named after the mountain, named after army captain Collet Barker.


Bergisches Land

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

A low mountain range in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, east of the Rhine and south of the Ruhr; the largest town is Wuppertal.


Simhachalam

Name of a mountain in the Eastern Ghats.


Picuris

Borrowed from Spanish Picurís, possibly from Eastern Keres Pikuli

A Northern Tiwa-speaking people and tribe located in northern New Mexico.


Picuris

A historic Pueblo inhabited by the Picuris people located in Taos County, New Mexico.

Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Sangre de Cristo Mountains

The Picuris Mountains, a mountain range in northern New Mexico, considered to be a subrange of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains


French Alps

A mountainous region in southeastern France that are part of the mountain range of Alps.


Cithaeron

A mountain and mountain range in Boeotia and Attica, Greece.


Hunza

A mountain in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.


White Mountain

White Mountain (canonical)
the White Mountain (canonical)


West Elk Mountains

A mountain range in Gunnison County, Delta County and Montrose County, Colorado, subrange of the Rocky Mountains.

West Elk Loop Scenic and Historic Byway
West Elk Wilderness
West Elks AVA


Elk Mountains

A mountain range in Pitkin County, Colorado, subrange of the Rocky Mountains

A mountain range in Catron County, New Mexico

Jarbidge Mountains
Jarbidge Mountains#English

A mountain range in Elko County, Nevada, subrange of the Jarbidge Mountains

A mountain range in Custer County, South Dakota, subrange of the Black Hills

A mountain range in Buncombe County, North Carolina


Mount Sopris

Named after Denver mayor Richard Sopris.

A mountain in the Elk Mountains in Pitkin County, Colorado.


Sandia Mountains

en-proper noun

the Sandia Mountains pl (normally plural, singular Sandia Mountain)

the Sandia Mountains (canonical plural)
Sandia Mountain (singular)

Borrowed from Spanish sandía (“watermelon”), which is popularly believed to be a reference to the reddish color of the mountains at sunset.

A mountain range east of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the southwestern United States.


Sandias

The Sandia Mountains, a mountain range in the southwestern United States.


Bohemian Forest

A mountain range in the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany


Scenic Rim

A group of forested mountain ranges in south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales, Australia.


seven-thousander

2023 May 16, Stefan Nestler, “First ascent of the West Face of the seven-thousander Kabru South – in alpine style”, in Adventure Mountain:

Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 7,000 metres (22,966 ft) but less than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.


thousander

(in combination) A mountain with an approximate height in thousands of metres or (less commonly) feet.


five-thousander

The clothes you take to the five-thousander must take care of your comfort both "down below" – in the valleys, where beautiful sunny weather may prevail – and at the summit, in cold, snowy, and windy conditions.

2022 September 15, “WHAT TO TAKE ON YOUR FIRST FIVE-THOUSANDER?”, in PAJAK:

Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) but less than 6,000 metres (19,685 ft) above sea level.


four-thousander

I haven’t been on any four-thousander before – except for Toubkal, where I didn’t reach the summit ;) so it would be a pleasure to reach some, but hiking the ski runs didn’t seem interesting to me.

2018 November 11, Maja, “Hiking trip to Breithorn – the easiest alpine four-thousander”, in Maja Travels:

Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 4,000 metres (13,123 ft) but less than 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) above sea level.


three-thousander

The Brennkogel is the quickest ski tour three-thousander in the Glockner group to reach, with just 700 metres separating the proud summit from the starting point on the Glocknerstraße.

2023 March 5, Manfred Karl, “Brennkogel (3018 m) - a fast spring three-thousander”, in Outdooractive:

Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) but less than 4,000 metres (13,123 ft) above sea level.


two-thousander

The top highest mountains we have in the country are all two-thousanders, concentrations are in the Cordilleras, Mindoro Island, Panay Island, Negros Island, and of course, the mountain ranges in Mindanao. And more often than not, the highest mountain per region (16 Regions in total, NCR excluded) is a two-thousander.

2014 February 27, Ivan Lakwatsero, “The Two-Thousanders of the Philippines”, in Ivan Lakwatsero:

Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) but less than 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) above sea level.


one-thousander

If you judge countries purely by their mountainous terrain, Finland is a bit of a loser. Halti, Finland's tallest, is around 1,324 meters, or about 4,340 feet, making it a "one-thousander" as it is over a thousand meters above sea level. That may sound impressive, but bear in mind that the tallest peak in the United States is a six-thousander and Mount Everest is a eight-thousander.

2015 December 18, Adam Taylor, “The Norwegian plan to gift Finland a mountain”, in The Washington Post:

Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) but less than 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) above sea level.


six-thousander

Paul Ramsden and Tim Miller have done it again: the two Brits managed another first ascent of a six-thousander in Nepal this fall – in alpine style (without bottled oxygen, without Sherpa support, without fixed ropes and without fixed high camps) and on a difficult route.

2023 October 11, Stefan Nestler, “Paul Ramsden after another first ascent of a six-thousander in Nepal: “Anything but alpine style is cheating””, in Adventure Mountain:

Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 6,000 metres (19,685 ft) but less than 7,000 metres (22,966 ft) above sea level.


nine-thousander

Let’s say that Everest was 200 meters higher, that is, a nine-thousander peak. Would an ascent without additional oxygen still be possible?

2018 August 5, Johanna Stöckl, “Reinhold Messner and his famous expedition to Mount Everest: “You mutate into a zombie””, in ISPO:

Any mountain that extends more than 9,000 metres (29,528 ft) from the surface.

Any mountain that extends more than 9,000 feet but less than 10,000 feet above sea level.


Mount Macedon

A mountain (dormant volcano) in Victoria, Australia.


Tehachapi Mountains

A mountain range in California, United States, separating the Central Valley from the Mojave Desert, part of the Transverse Ranges.


Mount Whitney

Continental United States
continental United States

A mountain in California, the highest in California or in the Continental United States.


Mount Logan

Named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist

A mountain in Yukon, Canada, the highest in Canada.


Transverse Ranges

A group of mountain ranges in California, United States, separating the Central Valley and Mojave Desert from the coast and the Los Angeles Basin.


Mount Helena

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A mountain in the Pacific Ranges, British Columbia, Canada, named after Princess Helena of the United Kingdom.


Hayden Peak

Several mountains in the United States, named for American geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden.

A mountain in the Elk Mountains in Pitkin County, Colorado.

San Miguel County
San Miguel County#English

A mountain in Sneffels Range in San Miguel County, Colorado.

A mountain in the Uinta Mountains in Summit County, Utah.

A mountain in Antarctica, named for United States Navy radioman Dennis J. Hayden.


Teton Range

A mountain range in Wyoming, subrange of the Rocky Mountains.


Maroon Peak

A mountain in the Elk Mountains in Gunnison County and Pitkin County, Colorado, one of the Maroon Bells.


Aspen Mountain

A ski mountain in the Elk Mountains in Pitkin County, Colorado.

Sweetwater County
Sweetwater County#English

A mountain in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.


Maroon Bells

A pair of mountains in the Elk Mountains, Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, in Gunnison County and Pitkin County, Colorado.


Karatau

From Russian Каратау (Karatau), from Kazakh Қаратау (Qaratau), from қара (qara, “black”) + тау (tau, “mountain, mountains”).

A mountain range in Kazakhstan, the westernmost extension of the Tian Shan.


North Maroon Peak

A mountain in the Elk Mountains in Pitkin County, Colorado, one of the Maroon Bells.


Highland Range

A mountain range in Clark County, Nevada.

A mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada.


Highland Peak

A mountain in the Sierra Nevada in Alpine County, California.

A mountain in the Highland Range in Lincoln County, Nevada.


Shchuchy

From Russian Щу́чий (Ščúčij), a masculine substantive from щу́чий (ščúčij). Compare Shchuchya and Shchuchye.

Anadyr Highlands
Anadyr Highlands#English

Far Eastern Federal District
Far Eastern Federal District#English

A mountain range in the Anadyr Highlands, administratively part of Anadyrsky Raion, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia

Щу́чий хребе́т

mountain range in the Anadyr Highlands, in Anadyrsky, Chukotka, Far Eastern Russia


Crested Butte

A mountain in the Elk Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado.


Sawatch Range

A mountain range in Colorado, subrange of the Rocky Mountains.


Mount Elbert

A mountain in the Sawatch Range, the highest mountain in the Rocky Mountains.


Collegiate Peaks

So called because several of its mountains are named for prominent universities.

A mountain range in Colorado, subrange of the Sawatch Range.


Mount Remarkable

A mountain and national park in the Flinders Ranges, north of Adelaide, South Australia.


Masherbrum

Ghanche District
Ghanche District#English

A mountain in the Ghanche District, of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan


Zijinshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紫金山 (Zǐjīnshān).

A mountain in Xuanwu district, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.


Minya Konka

Borrowed from Tibetan མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ (mi nyag gangs dkar ri bo).

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མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ


Mount Melville

Mount Melville
Mount Melville railway station

Western Australia
Western Australia#English

A small mountain and suburb of the City of Albany, southern Western Australia, named after Viscount Melville.


Old Man of Coniston

Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness#English

A mountain, 803 metres high, in Coniston parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2797).


Goat Fell

Goat Fell, the highest mountain on the Island of Arran, looms 2,866 ft above the coastal village of Corrie.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 135:

The highest mountain on the Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NR9941).