| MCKINLEY | Mount in Alaska, the highest in North America (8) |
| KALAHARIDESERT | In Alaska, the rider explores huge area (8,6) |
| MISCHIEF | Highest in Mephistopheles is the highest in devilry (8) |
| FRONTIER | Alaska: The Last ___, subsistence lifestyle reality series (8) |
| CHIMBSRAZO | Volcano rising to 20,564 ft which is the highest point in Ecuador and one of the highest in the world (10) |
| RUSHMORE | Mount in South Dakota featuring sculptures of presidents (8) |
| REDHORSE | War's mount, in the Apocalypse |
| MUNITION | Shell, maybe, I mount in ground (8) |
| RAINIER | Mount -, mountain in the Cascade Range which is the highest in Washington state (7) |
| EVEREST | Mount which is the highest in the world (7) |
| ELBRUS | This peak in the Caucasus range is the highest in Europe |
| JUNEAU | In south-eastern Alaska, the state capital (6) |
| STHELENS | Mount in the Cascades |
| ATOMBOMB | Slim Pickens's mount, in a climactic "Dr. Strangelove" scene |
| CHARGERS | The damage and risk, oddly, mounts in war |
| ANGELFALLS | A waterfall in South East Venezuela, regarded as the highest in the world (5,5) |
| JAPAN | Country in East Asia with median age of 48.4, the highest in the world (5) |
| DREAMINGSPIRES | With abstruse reading, impress the highest in Oxford (8,6) |
| SCAFELLPIKE | The highest in the land feel sick with lap dancing |
| ANDES | The Argentine mountain Aconcagua is the highest in this range (5) |
