Climb the World's Most Overshadowed Mountains in this Vertiginous Visualization

Quick, what's the tallest mountain in the world? Easy: Mt. Everest. Something something common knowledge; something something that one Tennyson line about geography and time. Everest reigns, all 29,000 feet worth. Just don't let old Chomolungma overshadow any other of Earth's lesser known, if equally stunning peaks.

Take For the Love of Mountains, a new visualization by Al Boardman. In a mere two minutes, Boardman takes us up and over a handful of these sometimes-overlooked mountains, in turn putting the natural world—and our pathetic little place in it—into a new and dizzying perspective.To wit:

• the hardest mountain to climb (K2) 
• the most dangerous mountain (Annapurnai) 
• the tallest unscaled mountain (Gangkhar Puensum)
• the highest active volcano (Ojos del Salado)
• the most sacred mountain (Kailash)
• the fattest mountain (Logan)
• the highest "free-standing" mountain (Kilimanjaro)
• the tallest from base to summit (Mauna Kea)
• the most climbed (Monadnock)

Granted, I'm slightly skeptical about some of these superlatives. If you ask me, any of these could be rightly be crowned "the most difficult mountain to climb". And "most climbed"? Really? How do you even quantify that?

Anyway, we live on a (cosmically speaking) very modest-sized rock that's spiked by a range of extremely large rocks far beyond just Everest. It's about high time someone decided they shouldn't be given such short shrift.

@thebanderson