Eight major mountains that you can up
must recognize that even for not too much given to spirits of adventure and physical effort a mountain top is a remarkable pleasure: the satisfaction of the end of the road (although we really only half), the pride of the goal achieved, the panorama that unfolds before our eyes ... And this talking about the typical "hillocks of people" to which we have all gone up, so do not want to imagine what may be the feeling at the peak of one of the mythical mountains there the world and whose snowy peaks seem to us unattainable. Well, in most cases they are for "mere mortals" like us, but it turns out there are at least eight major mountains of the world to anyone with reasonable physical condition (ie, that it does not take an athlete with great expertise) may rise.
Some are not too high but are very famous and beautiful, like Mount Fuji , others are the highest points of entire continents as Kilimanjaro Elbrus or . The full list is:
1. Mount Fuji, the highest peak in Japan with its 3,776 meters. One of the most photographed mountains in the world and perhaps one of the most beautiful.
2. Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental U.S. (excluding Alaska), which reaches 4,421 meters . It seems a very difficult goal but with some acclimation is not so difficult to reach the top. California is a land that do not normally associate with high mountains.
3. Temple Mount in Canada , which although not of the highest in the list ("only" 3,543 meters) it seems that it requires significant physical exertion to reach the top, although not necessary to have knowledge technical climbing, so it is enough to get in shape.
4. Kilimanjaro, a piece of mountain nearly 6,000 feet high (5895) but with a relatively easy climb and can be done in many stages to get acclimated to the altitude, which is the main problem. One of the major tourist attractions of Kenya .
5. The Polkade is for the more adventurous and those who are in better shape, so can boast of having reached the summit of a mountain of 5,800 meters in the very Himalaya (is only 12 miles from Everest). Yes, the trip to Nepal, complicadito.
6. The Pico de Orizaba Citlaltépetl or of 5,636 meters and we have to learn to use crampons and cross a glacier, but within a range of moderate difficulty.
7. Mount Elbrus, which at 5,642 meters is the highest point Europe and Russia , but whose rise will be of little help not a cable car that takes us to 3,800 meters. The rest of the route is as simple (although at high altitude) in 1997 reached the top in a Land Rover.
8. The Ojos del Salado is the mountain top of this list, nothing more and nothing less than 6,891 meters high , but just next to the Atacama Desert, Chile and Argentina, snow and ice does not pose any difficulty since only snowy peaks in winter. The last part of the ascent is somewhat more complicated, but once we had arrived there we were not going to pay, right?
PD.1: not allowed complaints or claims if someone is part of your neck trying to climb into one of these mountains :-).
PD.2: The photograph of Mount Fuji is from page Mount Fuji Guide; the Pico de Orizaba is from Wikipedia Commons and lifted pacomexico user.
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