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A pass is the low point of a ridge and the way across it. 99,028 of them here, with height, country and range; 11,879 carry a grade.

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  1. н/к 5,571 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  2. н/к 5,538 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  3. н/к 5,500 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  4. н/к 5,490 m
    China • Asia
  5. н/к 5,416 m
    Nepal • Asia Annapurna
  6. н/к 5,370 m
    Nepal • Asia Dhaulagiri Himal
  7. н/к 5,285 m
    China • Asia
  8. н/к 5,274 m
    China • Asia Changtang
  9. н/к 5,266 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  10. н/к 5,174 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  11. н/к 5,154 m
    China • Asia
  12. н/к 5,073 m
    China • Asia Russkiy Range
  13. н/к 5,030 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  14. н/к 5,014 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  15. н/к 4,865 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  16. н/к 4,861 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  17. н/к 4,832 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  18. н/к 4,820 m
    China • Asia Aghil Mountains
  19. н/к 4,800 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Zortoshkol Ridge
  20. н/к 4,781 m
    China • Asia Western Kunlun
  21. н/к 4,779 m
    China • Asia
  22. н/к 4,776 m
    Nepal • Asia Kanchenjunga
  23. н/к 4,764 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Bakchigir Massif
  24. н/к 4,750 m
    Peru • South America White Cordillera
  25. н/к? 4,734 m
    Tajikistan • Asia South Alichur Range
  26. н/к 4,660 m
    Tajikistan • Asia North Alichur Range
  27. н/к 4,655 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Zortoshkol Ridge
  28. н/к 4,655 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Shughnon Range
  29. н/к 4,655 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Zortoshkol Ridge
  30. н/к 4,598 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Shughnon Range
  31. н/к 4,573 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Rushan Range
  32. н/к 4,570 m
    Tajikistan • Asia South Alichur Range
  33. н/к-1А 4,556 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Rushan Range
  34. н/к 4,551 m
    India • Asia Great Himalaya Range
  35. н/к 4,550 m
    Tajikistan • Asia South Alichur Range
  36. н/к 4,525 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Tanymas Range
  37. н/к 4,520 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Shakhdara Range
  38. н/к 4,515 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Shughnon Range
  39. н/к 4,515 m
    China • Asia Kongur Tagh
  40. н/к 4,480 m
    Tajikistan • Asia Karakul Range

The passes come from OpenStreetMap, where a saddle a road crosses and a saddle a rope crosses are the same tag. So this section holds both: the drive-over passes of Norway, Spain and the Alps, and the snow cols of the Tien Shan and the Pamir that take a day to reach.

What tells them apart is the grade. The Russian scale runs н/к — no category, a walk — through 1А, 1Б, 2А, 2Б and 3А to 3Б, and it counts the hardest ground on the crossing: scree, snow, ice or rock, and what it takes to protect it. A star marks the hard end of a category, and a hyphen is two sources disagreeing. 11,879 passes here carry one, almost all of them in the Caucasus, the Tien Shan and the Pamir: the scale is a post-Soviet mountaineering idea and nobody grades the saddles of Norway by it. The slider leaves the rest in the list rather than hiding them.

Climbs of a summit are counted apart, in their own section, and the cabled routes in theirs.