Seven Summits Posters & Prints
for social studies and geography educators, and home schoolers.

Achievement
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
T. Roosevelt

Kilimanjaro
Mount Vinson
Mount Kosciuszko

Puncak Jaya
Mount Everest
Mount Elbrus

Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Africa, (19,340 ft/5,895m)

Kilimanjaro (Kilima Njaro - Swahili for “shining mountain”), is the tallest free-standing mountain rise in the world. It is an inactive stratovolcano, however there are concerns about magma build-up, and rapidly retreating glaciers near the summit.

Mount Vinson or Vinson Massif (16,050 ft/4,892 m) is the highest peak in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1957 by a US Navy aircraft and is claimed by Chile.

The word ‘massif’ is French and translates as ‘massive’; in geology it means a section of the Earth's crust that is ‘demarcated by faults or flexures’ and is a 'smaller unit than a tectonic plate'.

Mount Erebus, also in Antarctica, is the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Mount Kosciuszko (7,310 feet/2,228 m), named for Polish national hero General Tadeusz KoÊciuszko, is on the Australian mainland. It is considered an easy climb.

A more challenging climb is the highest mountain between the Himalayas and the Andes, Puncak Jaya (16,023 ft/4,884 m). Located on the island of New Guinea, Indonesia, it is a part of the continental Australian shelf (Australasia). Europeans originally called it ‘Carstensz Pyramid’. (no commercial print available)

Asia - Mount Everest (Qomolangma, Sagarmatha, Chomolungma) is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level (29,028 ft/8,848 m).

Everest is part of the Himalaya range, located on the border between Nepal and China.

• Everest Conquered! Headline poster

Mount Elbrus, a dormant stratovolcano at 18,510 ft/5,642 m, is the highest mountain in Europe, if the border between Europe and Asia is considered to be at the watershed divide of the Caucasus. The Caucasus Mountains are between the Black and the Caspian Seas in the Caucasus region of Eurasia (the area between the Black and Carspian seas can be considered an isthmus). Elbrus is located in Russia, near the border with Georgia.

Aconcagua, in the Argentinian Andes, is the highest peak outside of Asia (22,841 ft/6,962 m).

The Andes Mountains is the longest mountain range, stretching over 4,400 miles (7,000 km) along the western Pacific Coast of South America. The Andes are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, however Aconcagua is not a volcano as it was created by the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American plate.