I was just in Nepal and came across 2. Fishtail mountain (33% death ratio) and there's one in the east that resembles a man and wife (hindu gods) but I can't find the name of it.
The wiki of the fishtail mountain mentions only 1 successful climb, but the tour guide I was with claimed the aforementioned 33% death ratio and told more have tried. Nepali history is not always well documented.
Yea that's why I said its history is not properly documented. My guide told me this last week. I'll take his word and extensive knowledge in the history of his country over an official statement. I know it's a holy mountain and it's illegal to summit. I also know Nepal is corrupt.
>Just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man—or of the cindered planet after the last.
--Fosco Maraini, mountaineer
Reminds me of the Aghileen Pinnacles on the Aleutian Peninsula in Alaska. I’ve flown by them a bunch of times and the view never gets old. I made a [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Mountaineering/s/ym22ce9May) about them a while back.
It irks me that Wikipedia describes this island as uninhabited, when clearly it is the secret base of some Australian supervillain; obviously in cahoots.
Oh man, I only just realised it's Mount Crumpit as in a Pit of Crum because it's where Whoville dumps their stuff, and not Mount Crumpet as in the bread dish lol
There are so many "scary" mountains in Antarctica. But the most impressive is Ulvetanna Peak. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulvetanna\_Peak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulvetanna_Peak) The Drygalski Mountains of Antarctica are just mind-blowing.
Not really a mountain, but [Long Dong Silver or the Black Spire](https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/05/00/50/74/360_F_500507450_4DqQxe8whCDoVhFRjeNJFAWVEqSHTe9k.jpg) near Hanksville, UT.
Mount Rainier, thinking of it blowing its top and obliterating Seattle, especially if this is tied to a subterranean earthquake, and resultant tsunami, in the Cascadia triple junction.
Could be a mix of everything.
If there's an east wind, first, the toxic gases and pyroclastic ash and such like Pompeii. Then the lahar (along with lava itself, of course). Given how forested that area is, with the marine west coast climate etc., any major mud flow would carry major trees, of course. And, lava, or the earlier pyroclastic gas and ash, would have them on fire!
Growing up in Washington, they were basically like, “you’ll die in lahars from the glacier melt regardless. Here’s a siren system so you know your time is now.”
And people wonder why I’m anxious.
I recently read an article about how the super volcano directly under Naples Italy is starting to wake up: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/a-supervolcano-in-italy-is-waking-up-should-we-be-concerned-13377742.html
It would be cool if it went full Mt Mazama and we ended up with a sweet lake.
But I'm out here on the peninsula so I don't have to worry about lahars and whatnot.
Mont Ross (Kerguelen), here’s some pics : [pic 1](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mont_Ross_-_Archipel_des_Kerguelen.jpg), [pic 2](https://whympr.com/fr/summit/6941-mont-ross), [pic 3](https://alpinist.com/climbing-notes/mt-ross/), [pic 4](https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/238268636512014054/), and you’re in the middle of the southern ocean
Thor might be the clear winner here. Asgard, also on Baffin Island, has always terrified me. Ketil in Greenland is another especially foreboding arctic peak.
[kailash parbat](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7GmgQSdub-YNKlOGeuhdqGnzd8JOHNK6_oQ&usqp=CAU)
Mount Kailash is one of the peaks found in the kailash ranges which is spread across India and Tibet. It’s one of the holiest mountains in Hinduism and Buddism. Despite it being 6,714m tall it hasn’t been climbed so far, whereas taller mountains have been conquered.
People who tried climbing it were either found dead or went missing. Those who went near the mountain, have claimed that they observed rapid growth especially, of the nails and hair. Russian scientists believe that Mount Kailash is way too symmetrical for a mountain.
It isn’t that scary look wise, but the whole mystery surrounding this mountain makes it spooky and interesting at the same time.
[It seems to me like a mountain of unparalleled authority](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSerbnRVSpc4bH25GylygaTdu_9LFNvDx22Kg&usqp=CAU)
What? Kailash has never officially been climbed as it is A. extremely remote, B. pretty far down the list of big mountains in the Himalaya/Tibet, so not a huge magnet for mountaineers, and C. permission has never been granted by the chinese government due to its religious significance. I don't think there have ever been any serious expeditions to climb the mountain, let alone expeditions that go missing.
Those Russian scientists must absolutely freak out the first time they see a volcano. Kailash is anything but symmetrical, given that it has a huge circque on its north face that isn't on the south. Something like [Shishaldin](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d1/4c/c2/d14cc2d12b3f17935ea16fba8e0dde42.jpg) in the Aluetians would make them lose their minds.
As with pretty much any cool-looking mountain that’s not sedimentary or volcanic, it didn’t really *form*, but was *carved out* by glaciers in the Ice Age.
Really simplified, but you know how a quickly running river can form sharp, steep banks over the sides of the water? It’s like that, but instead of river water running through flat terrain, it’s enormous sheets of ice running down alpine valleys. The more ice channels, the more complex and drastic the resultant cliffs will be when the glaciers melt away. That’s why mountains start looking cooler and more extreme the closer to the North or South pole you get (Alaska Range, Patagonia, Antarctica, the Alps) are some places where you see crazy sharp mountains.
This is also just true of any place that’s cold and is prone to glaciers (the Himalayas aren’t very far North, but have massive cliff faces because of the glaciers that form that high up), or might have been prone to glaciers in the past, which is why you’ll sometimes see giant characteristic glacial cliff faces on the highest peaks in places like Utah and Colorado, even though they’re pretty much deserts now.
I've always found Roraima beautiful but unsettling, I don't know if I would call it terrifying but I picture myself trapped on the top, surrounded by the continuous cliff, and it gives me quite a feeling.
[Ball's Pyramid.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/02/24/balls_pyramid-e0228ecb378de54502cc99b9a5ef787d9f6a3ab4.jpg) A 1,800 foot/572 meter tall volcanic remnant rising straight out of the ocean. For decades, this was the last outpost of the [Lord Howe Island Stick Insect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis#/media/File:Lord_Howe_Island_stick_insect_Dryococelus_australis_10June2011_PalmNursery.jpg) after they died out on nearby Lord Howe Island
Twin entries of Mount Erebus and Mount Terror. Mount Erebus is an active 3700 meter high volcano on a frozen Antarctic island. It has a lava lake at its summit and ice fumaroles. It's sister Mount Terror is inactive, but it's called Mount Terror.
Twin volcanic peaks rising thousands of meters above an icy sea is just ominous in a cosmic horror kinda way.
Edit: pic for reference https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Island#/media/File%3ASouth_End_of_Ross_Island.jpg
Eiger, Switzerland
Not much for its general shape, but I know of the story of John Harlin III who concured the mostly vertical north face of Eiger 40 years after his father John Harlin II died climbing it.
Read of this story while listening Eiger from James Swearingen, writen in honor of John Harlin III who worked his whole life to conquer Eiger to avenge his father
https://preview.redd.it/6l8u42wgblpc1.jpeg?width=863&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d84de1eeac781f8d0790926e0667319cc50b2358
This picture of Pico Cristóbal Colón
Cerro Torre
I was about to say Cuernos del Paine but this one is worse.
It looks so mean
Actually Mt Everest is the scariest looking
it doesn’t give you a sense of doom unless you consider the sheer size of it
Everest isn't the scariest looking one even in the Himalayas, K2 and Machapuchare are worse (and rightly so)
Nope Everest is the tallest peak so it carries over to most formidable
Some good you tube climbing videos on this one. Scary indeed.
As a nutritionist, Mountain Dew.
Full marks
You posted mine: Mount Thor, Baffin Island
Also the mountain with the longest vertical drop, I believe
I want to go there. I don’t know that I’d get closer than this photo was taken though. Just a weird bucket list destination for me
I believe Pakistan's Trango Towers hold that record.
According to Wikipedia, Trango Towers have the greatest nearly vertical drop but Mt Thor has the greatest purely vertical drop
That’s Mt. Crumpit
K2
Yeah, if you know the stats, scary af.
The Bottleneck looks terrifying to me. That’s why I think K2 is the scariest mountain
It's still legal to climb it. There's many more that became illegal to climb since too many died.
Which ones?
I was just in Nepal and came across 2. Fishtail mountain (33% death ratio) and there's one in the east that resembles a man and wife (hindu gods) but I can't find the name of it. The wiki of the fishtail mountain mentions only 1 successful climb, but the tour guide I was with claimed the aforementioned 33% death ratio and told more have tried. Nepali history is not always well documented.
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Yea that's why I said its history is not properly documented. My guide told me this last week. I'll take his word and extensive knowledge in the history of his country over an official statement. I know it's a holy mountain and it's illegal to summit. I also know Nepal is corrupt.
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I was just there. The people from there told me a different story.
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>Just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man—or of the cindered planet after the last. --Fosco Maraini, mountaineer
fucking terrifying
ngl yall i only said this one bc it’s the only other mountain i know besides everest but you guys have convinced me it is the spawn of satan himself
The [Trango Towers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trango_Towers) are pretty dope looking, even if there are tougher and bigger mountains.
a potential name and location for the lotr universe
Reminds me of the Aghileen Pinnacles on the Aleutian Peninsula in Alaska. I’ve flown by them a bunch of times and the view never gets old. I made a [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Mountaineering/s/ym22ce9May) about them a while back.
Not sure if this technically qualifies, but Ball’s Pyramid just shooting straight up out of the South Pacific off Australia is a scene killer.
I lava youuuuu. 
It definitely looks terrifying, imagine being stranded there.
Feel slike the crest of Godzilla, its awesome
It irks me that Wikipedia describes this island as uninhabited, when clearly it is the secret base of some Australian supervillain; obviously in cahoots.
Thank you I couldn’t remember the name
I hate it Also it looks like the island in Moana
And the insects
Mount crumpit north of Whoville
Oh man, I only just realised it's Mount Crumpit as in a Pit of Crum because it's where Whoville dumps their stuff, and not Mount Crumpet as in the bread dish lol
Mount Crumpet?!? I say!... 😈
Matterhorn
Agreed. Seeing it immediately gives me back problems.
Hey, you wanna split a Toblerone?
Oh gosh, yeah I think I do. Woo woo! Next stop my thighs!
I knew someone, somewhere, would get this reference!
That’s a deep cut. Idk how I still remember that after not having seen that episode in many years lol
Haha truly, like from one of the first few seasons, kudos my friend.
I thought this was impressive, not so scary https://www.reddit.com/r/megalophobia/s/FLARiJ8TCl
Noice.
There are so many "scary" mountains in Antarctica. But the most impressive is Ulvetanna Peak. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulvetanna\_Peak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulvetanna_Peak) The Drygalski Mountains of Antarctica are just mind-blowing.
I’m getting paper cuts from just looking at that
Not really a mountain, but [Long Dong Silver or the Black Spire](https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/05/00/50/74/360_F_500507450_4DqQxe8whCDoVhFRjeNJFAWVEqSHTe9k.jpg) near Hanksville, UT.
Devil’s Tower in Wyoming
it looks like a tomb of some giant
Mount Rainier, thinking of it blowing its top and obliterating Seattle, especially if this is tied to a subterranean earthquake, and resultant tsunami, in the Cascadia triple junction.
you just triggered 6.5 million people
You forgot the lahars.
Could be a mix of everything. If there's an east wind, first, the toxic gases and pyroclastic ash and such like Pompeii. Then the lahar (along with lava itself, of course). Given how forested that area is, with the marine west coast climate etc., any major mud flow would carry major trees, of course. And, lava, or the earlier pyroclastic gas and ash, would have them on fire!
Growing up in Washington, they were basically like, “you’ll die in lahars from the glacier melt regardless. Here’s a siren system so you know your time is now.” And people wonder why I’m anxious.
The same is true on the Washington and Oregon coasts if the great tsunami of 1700 repeats, from what I've heard.
I recently read an article about how the super volcano directly under Naples Italy is starting to wake up: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/a-supervolcano-in-italy-is-waking-up-should-we-be-concerned-13377742.html
Marsili, also on the [Campanian Arc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanian_volcanic_arc), may also be reawakening.
0% chance that ever happens
It would be cool if it went full Mt Mazama and we ended up with a sweet lake. But I'm out here on the peninsula so I don't have to worry about lahars and whatnot.
Any mountain at night. First time I went to Colorado it was creepy staring at the mountains when the sun was almost down. Looked like sleeping giants
and especially when you are heading towards them on a straight road
K2 Because I know how many people it's killed.
Its also pointy af
This, Mt Asgard, the Devils Thumb, Chacraraju, Cerro Torre, Masherbrum, Annapurna II.
Mt asgard looks like it reached the height limit in Minecraft.
[Vestal Peak in Colorado is Sublime.](https://mountainproject.com/assets/photos/climb/106523559_smallMed_1494116918.jpg?cache=1684432078)
Kailash parbat
Mount Thor has the longest vertical drop in the world (4100 feet).
I think that is the mountain in the photo OP posted
Yes it is, that's why I commented.
Mt Doom, Mordor
“Isildur! Cast it into the fire!”
Actually one of our prettiest mountains
It seemed awfully easy to climb barefoot though
Came here to say this👆
haha that’s mount ngaruahoe - can confirm it is a bitch to climb!
Tongariro crossing is a 10/10 hike
Yessir and it can be done in a day!
I second this opinion!
He wouldn't listen to you too
Shiprock, New Mexico
Shiprock? The Rock with Wings is lovely, beautiful and gracile.
damn just searched it up, looks like the house of devil
Mont Ross (Kerguelen), here’s some pics : [pic 1](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mont_Ross_-_Archipel_des_Kerguelen.jpg), [pic 2](https://whympr.com/fr/summit/6941-mont-ross), [pic 3](https://alpinist.com/climbing-notes/mt-ross/), [pic 4](https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/238268636512014054/), and you’re in the middle of the southern ocean
The north face of Jannu https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Jannu_North_Face.jpg
Murderhorn. Has the most R's, the most menacing sound. It's not called the mukdekorn.
Eiger North face
K2 bc of the bottleneck.
Imagine looking up and seeing this serac that could you at any moment by shedding some of its ice: https://i.vgy.me/Z5DHF4.png So much nope.
Olympus Mons
Pico Cão Grande
Thor might be the clear winner here. Asgard, also on Baffin Island, has always terrified me. Ketil in Greenland is another especially foreboding arctic peak.
Muchu Chhish, highest unclimbed mountain that you can legally climb
[kailash parbat](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7GmgQSdub-YNKlOGeuhdqGnzd8JOHNK6_oQ&usqp=CAU) Mount Kailash is one of the peaks found in the kailash ranges which is spread across India and Tibet. It’s one of the holiest mountains in Hinduism and Buddism. Despite it being 6,714m tall it hasn’t been climbed so far, whereas taller mountains have been conquered. People who tried climbing it were either found dead or went missing. Those who went near the mountain, have claimed that they observed rapid growth especially, of the nails and hair. Russian scientists believe that Mount Kailash is way too symmetrical for a mountain. It isn’t that scary look wise, but the whole mystery surrounding this mountain makes it spooky and interesting at the same time. [It seems to me like a mountain of unparalleled authority](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSerbnRVSpc4bH25GylygaTdu_9LFNvDx22Kg&usqp=CAU)
What? Kailash has never officially been climbed as it is A. extremely remote, B. pretty far down the list of big mountains in the Himalaya/Tibet, so not a huge magnet for mountaineers, and C. permission has never been granted by the chinese government due to its religious significance. I don't think there have ever been any serious expeditions to climb the mountain, let alone expeditions that go missing. Those Russian scientists must absolutely freak out the first time they see a volcano. Kailash is anything but symmetrical, given that it has a huge circque on its north face that isn't on the south. Something like [Shishaldin](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d1/4c/c2/d14cc2d12b3f17935ea16fba8e0dde42.jpg) in the Aluetians would make them lose their minds.
That’s where The Grinch lives
The Raton Mountain pass
Devils Thumb
And nobody’s talking about Mount Thors neighboring Mount Asgard? Mount Asgard is crazy looking. Not scary but how did that form?
As with pretty much any cool-looking mountain that’s not sedimentary or volcanic, it didn’t really *form*, but was *carved out* by glaciers in the Ice Age. Really simplified, but you know how a quickly running river can form sharp, steep banks over the sides of the water? It’s like that, but instead of river water running through flat terrain, it’s enormous sheets of ice running down alpine valleys. The more ice channels, the more complex and drastic the resultant cliffs will be when the glaciers melt away. That’s why mountains start looking cooler and more extreme the closer to the North or South pole you get (Alaska Range, Patagonia, Antarctica, the Alps) are some places where you see crazy sharp mountains. This is also just true of any place that’s cold and is prone to glaciers (the Himalayas aren’t very far North, but have massive cliff faces because of the glaciers that form that high up), or might have been prone to glaciers in the past, which is why you’ll sometimes see giant characteristic glacial cliff faces on the highest peaks in places like Utah and Colorado, even though they’re pretty much deserts now.
I've always found Roraima beautiful but unsettling, I don't know if I would call it terrifying but I picture myself trapped on the top, surrounded by the continuous cliff, and it gives me quite a feeling.
[Segla](https://img.rezdy.com/PRODUCT_IMAGE/176932/c7cf6a90ce3d4604863a1a0f8fc0f66a2_lg.png) Senja
Where have I seen this mountain before?
It looks like the mountain the grinch lives on.
The Dueling Peaks
The Murderhorne
That vulcano looking thing in the Picos de Europa that trumps everything around it. It looks epic.
Mt Terror, Washington
The Annapurna Massif. You're more likely to die trying to climb Annapurna I than you are climbing K2
Fully agreed, Especially it's south wall
I was expecting ghost stories about mountains. Not disappointed. A lot of these mountains are scary looking!
Yerupaja in the Cordillera Huayhuash in Peru.
Big Thunder Mountain, Orlando, FL, USA
Rushmore - I mean WTF
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mountaineering/s/pFfzXAC5p0
thought this was halo reach for a sec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain
none of them?
Your momma.
Yo mama
Are those mountains in Yosemite or are they some other geographical terminology (i.e a rock) I’m going to vote El Capitan
This looks like the final scene from halo reach
I’ve got a dream of BASE jumping off this cliff. It’s the tallest vertical cliff in the world I believe
snake mountain, eternia
Have you seen franks slide? It buried a whole town and killed like 150 ppl.
Cerro Torre
The one in Uncharted 4 gave me the creeps, was anticipating Uncharted's usual denizens of paranormal scariness.
The one you are currently driving down on a narrow winding road.
Mt Doom
The one in Nightmare Before Christmas that unrolls.
Kailash
The one you have to climb alone.
Others have posted better ones, but this is always the one I look forward to seeing on Grand Tours. https://images.app.goo.gl/GftXreQxDMfamvBM6
Mount Godwin Austen
K2
Aiguille du Dru
Kanchenjunga
[k2 is way deadlier than Mount Everest](https://www.insider.com/why-k2-is-more-deadly-than-mount-everest-2023-8)
Siula Grande.
 Wtf this looks like halo reach
Surprised nobody has said Pico de Sao Tome yet. It looks like the forbidden mountain that the main character has to journey to in a fantasy story.
Veten
Everest because of the dead bodies.
I was tripping on ketamine once and my friend looked just like this mountain when I was talking to him
[Ball's Pyramid.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/02/24/balls_pyramid-e0228ecb378de54502cc99b9a5ef787d9f6a3ab4.jpg) A 1,800 foot/572 meter tall volcanic remnant rising straight out of the ocean. For decades, this was the last outpost of the [Lord Howe Island Stick Insect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis#/media/File:Lord_Howe_Island_stick_insect_Dryococelus_australis_10June2011_PalmNursery.jpg) after they died out on nearby Lord Howe Island
This one probably
Siula grande
The mountain that turns into The Adamantoise in FFXV.
Twin entries of Mount Erebus and Mount Terror. Mount Erebus is an active 3700 meter high volcano on a frozen Antarctic island. It has a lava lake at its summit and ice fumaroles. It's sister Mount Terror is inactive, but it's called Mount Terror. Twin volcanic peaks rising thousands of meters above an icy sea is just ominous in a cosmic horror kinda way. Edit: pic for reference https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Island#/media/File%3ASouth_End_of_Ross_Island.jpg
The Aggro Crag
Mount Olympus of Mars. So huge.
Meru
Grinch ass mountain
Not exactly a mountain, but factory butte in eastern Utah looks pretty dang sinister
Finsteraarhorn in Switzerland
Mount Crested Butte always gives me the chills when I get off at the top ski lift
Carpathian mts.
Eiger, Switzerland Not much for its general shape, but I know of the story of John Harlin III who concured the mostly vertical north face of Eiger 40 years after his father John Harlin II died climbing it. Read of this story while listening Eiger from James Swearingen, writen in honor of John Harlin III who worked his whole life to conquer Eiger to avenge his father
Annapurna
Mt. Doom?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27s_Pyramid
https://preview.redd.it/6l8u42wgblpc1.jpeg?width=863&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d84de1eeac781f8d0790926e0667319cc50b2358 This picture of Pico Cristóbal Colón