mountain peaks
Highest points above
Mountain peaks are the highest points of mountains—the summits where slopes converge and elevation reaches its maximum.
The term emphasizes the pointed or prominent nature of these high points: Snow-capped mountain peaks rose above the clouds.
Climbers speak of bagging peaks or summiting peaks.
Figuratively, peak alone extends to any highest point or maximum, but mountain peaks stays literal.
- ridgesNarrow elevated formations
- cirquesGlacier-carved mountain hollows
- massifUnified mountain group
- altitudeMeasured height above reference
- thin airSeeming nothingness
summit · false summit · knife-edge · pinnacle · treeline · fourteener · base camp · erosion · glaciers · above the clouds · Matterhorn · hiking trails · uplift · pilgrimage sites · aiguille · snowline · snowfields · col
- Swiss AlpsMatterhorn, Eiger, Dom, Grindelwald, St. Moritz
- stark landscapesmoors, tundra, desert, salt flats, badlands
- Pohorjeconiferous forests, spruce trees, alpine meadows, peat bogs, ski resorts
- mountainspeaks, summit, summits, Alps, Himalayas
- landformscliff, valley, volcano, hill, lake
- NorwayOslo, Bergen, Trondheim, fjord, fjords
mountain peaksvalleys
Low areas between hills
valley floors · ocean depths · gorges · ravines · trenches
mountain peakssea level
Elevation reference point
coastal plains · river valleys · gentle slopes · habitable zones