Wide angled lens for mountains?

SkiHound wrote:

A couple of general thoughts: When shooting landscapes a common thought is that you need wide angles and that longer focal length lenses are not of much use. I'd say it really depends on style. Longer focal lenths allow you extract detail and I think the detail shots are often the most powerful. Also, when shooting wide, you generally want something of interest in the foreground, middle ground, and background. Think of getting close to the foreground subjects and then get closer. I often find that when I try to capture wide open vistas at wide angles the resulting images are just a snooze. So, I'd take the 14-140 and as others have noted, you can shoot panoramas and stitch them easily these days. If you take additional lenses I think either the 9-18 or 7-14 make sense. The 9-18 is pretty small and light if you want to keep kit size and weight down. The other lens category I'd try to take is a fast normalish focal length lens; one of the PL15, Oly 17, or one of the 25mm lenses. If you think you'll be doing any shooting in low light I think a fast prime is a huge asset.

I agree on a foreground element with a wide angle. Often that would be a companion as you want to get close or perhaps a monastery with background mountains.

I disagree on the need for a fast lens (in Nepal) except for astro (stars and landscape). Other low light shooting is likely to be with a tripod and might be a tele of alpenglow on fluted ice faces. Shooting handheld low light is unlikely as the locals are going to be at home as darkness approaches and late pm or early am leaves the valleys in total shade with just the higher peaks illuminated (tele).