Over half a million peaks

We just completed a second major update to peakery’s underlying peak data (the first being our recent clean up of regions).

Now featuring 587,000 peaks!

This update adds 250,000 new peaks to the existing 337,000 for a grand total of over half a million peaks. Some countries gained a huge number of new peaks. Here are the top 25 countries that gained the most peaks:

Russia 31,816 total peaks + 24,687 new peaks
Spain 20,533 + 18,969
Italy 22,607 + 17,405
Germany 19,585 + 16,930
China 15,474 + 13,321
Australia 14,072 + 10,027
Chile 14,399 + 10,005
United Kingdom 12,512 + 7,771
Czech Republic 6,978 + 6,107
Brazil 6,384 + 5,748
Morocco 9,068 + 5,297
Norway 9,461 + 5,206
Colombia 6,051 + 4,918
Poland 6,065 + 4,573
Austria 10,455 + 4,538
Saudi Arabia 5,196 + 4,389
Turkey 8,144 + 4,225
France 7,216 + 4,180
Argentina 7,666 + 3,948
Slovakia 4,665 + 3,503
United States 71,168 + 3,296
Sweden 4,919 + 3,164
Greece 4,448 + 2,761
Bulgaria 3,058 + 2,669
Indonesia 16,965 + 2,608

Overall we added peaks to 195 countries and territories; go to the Regions page to check out any of these. We plan to add more peaks over time.

Improved summit locations & elevations

Since the launch of the new peakery, we’ve also fixed the locations of over 72,000 peaks and the elevation of more than 16,000 peaks. This is on top of the 1000s of valuable contributions from the peakery community.

Other tweaks

  • added country and region names to every peak’s URL
  • changed all existing unnamed peaks to the default ‘Peak 1,234 ft’ or ‘Peak 1,234 m’ naming-scheme
  • fixed bug in Log climb date picker (Windows/Chrome)
  • fixed the summits that show up on Challenge > Members pages
  • fixed the summits that show up on Profile > Map

Why we’re doing this

peakery’s long-term goal is to become the world’s ultimate resource to plan, collect, and share your mountain hiking & climbing adventures. An important ingredient in this is accurate and comprehensive info for every mountain in the world. It’s going to take years of constant improvement to get there, but with your help we plan to keep chipping away at it.

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