Eight-thousander explained

The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains recognized by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) as being more than 8000m (26,000feet) in height above sea level, and sufficiently independent of neighbouring peaks. There is no precise definition of the criteria used to assess independence, and at times, the UIAA has considered whether the list should be expanded to 20 mountain peaks by including the major satellite peaks of eight-thousanders. All of the eight-thousanders are located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia, and their summits lie in the altitude range known as the death zone.

From 1950 to 1964, all 14 eight-thousanders were summited by expedition climbers in the summer (the first to be summited was Annapurna I in 1950, and the last was Shishapangma in 1964), and from 1980 to 2021, all 14 were summited in the winter (the first to be summited in winter being Mount Everest in 1980, and the last being K2 in 2021). On a variety of statistical techniques, the deadliest eight-thousander is Annapurna I (one death – climber or climber support – for every three summiters), followed by K2 and Nanga Parbat (one death for every four to five summiters), and then Dhaulagiri and Kangchenjunga (one for every six to seven summiters).

The first person to summit all 14 eight-thousanders was the Italian climber Reinhold Messner in 1986, who did not use any supplementary oxygen. In 2010, Edurne Pasaban, a Basque Spanish mountaineer became the first woman to summit all 14 eight-thousanders, but with the aid of supplementary oxygen. In 2011, Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner became the first woman to summit all 14 eight-thousanders without the aid of supplementary oxygen. In 2013, South Korean Kim Chang-ho climbed all 14 eight-thousanders in 7 years and 310 days, without the aid of supplementary oxygen. In July 2023, Kristin Harila and Tenjen Lama Sherpa set a speed record of 92 days for climbing all 14 eight-thousanders, with supplementary oxygen. In July 2022, Sanu Sherpa became the first person to summit all 14 eight-thousanders twice, which he did from 2006 to 2022.

Issues with false summits (e.g. Cho Oyu, Annapurna I and Dhaulagiri), or separated dual summits (e.g. Shishapangma and Manaslu), have led to disputed claims of ascents. In 2022, after several years of research, a team of experts reported that they could only confirm evidence that three climbers, Ed Viesturs, Veikka Gustafsson and Nirmal Purja, had stood on the true geographic summit of all 14 eight-thousanders.

Climbing history

First ascents

The first recorded attempt on an eight-thousander was when Albert F. Mummery, Geoffrey Hastings and J. Norman Collie tried to climb Pakistan's Nanga Parbat in 1895. The attempt failed when Mummery and two Gurkhas, Ragobir Thapa and Goman Singh, were killed by an avalanche.

The first successful ascent of an eight-thousander was by the French climbers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, who reached the summit of Annapurna on 3 June 1950 using expedition climbing techniques as part of the 1950 French Annapurna expedition. Due to its location in Tibet, Shishapangma was the last eight-thousander to be ascended, which was completed by a Chinese team led by Xu Jing in 1964 (Tibet's mountains were closed by China to foreigners until 1978).^[1]

The first winter ascent of an eight-thousander was by a Polish team led by Andrzej Zawada on Mount Everest, with Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki reaching the summit on 17 February 1980;^[2] all-Polish teams would complete nine of the first fourteen winter ascents of eight-thousanders. The final eight-thousander to be climbed in winter was K2, whose summit was ascended by a 10-person Nepalese team on 16 January 2021.^[3]

Only two climbers have completed more than one first ascent of an eight-thousander, Hermann Buhl (Nanga Parbat and Broad Peak) and Kurt Diemberger (Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri). Buhl's summit of Nanga Parbat in 1953 is notable as being the only solo first ascent of one of the eight-thousanders. The Polish climber Jerzy Kukuczka is noted for creating over ten new routes on various eight-thousander mountains.^[4] Italian climber Simone Moro made the first winter ascent of four eight-thousanders (Shishapangma, Makalu, Gasherbrum II, and Nanga Parbat),^[5] while three Polish climbers have each made three first winter ascents of an eight-thousander, Maciej Berbeka (Cho Oyu, Manaslu, and Broad Peak), Krzysztof Wielicki (Everest, Kangchenjunga, and Lhotse) and Jerzy Kukuczka (Dhaulagiri I, Kangchenjunga, and Annapurna I).^[4]

All 14

On 16 October 1986, Italian Reinhold Messner became the first person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders. In 1987, Polish climber Jerzy Kukuczka became the second person to accomplish this feat.^[4] Messner summited each of the 14 peaks without the aid of bottled oxygen, a feat that was only repeated by the Swiss Erhard Loretan nine years later in 1995 (Kukuczka had used supplementary oxygen while summiting Everest and on no other eight-thousander^[4]).^[6]

On 17 May 2010, Spanish climber Edurne Pasaban became the first woman to summit all 14 eight-thousanders.^[7] In August 2011, Austrian climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner became the first woman to climb the 14 eight-thousanders without the use of supplementary oxygen.^{[8] [9]}

The first couple and team to summit all 14 eight-thousanders were the Italians Nives Meroi (who was the second woman to accomplish this feat without supplementary oxygen), and her husband on 11 May 2017.^{[10] [11]} The couple climbed alpine style, without the use of supplementary oxygen or other support.^{[11] [12]}

On 23 May 2023, Nepali guide Kami Rita summitted Everest for the 28th time (a record for Everest), becoming the first-ever person to climb an eight-thousander 38 times.^[13] In July 2022, Sanu Sherpa became the first person to summit all 14 eight-thousanders twice.^[14] He started with Cho Oyu in 2006, and completed the double by summiting Gasherbrum II in July 2022.^[15]

On 20 May 2013, South Korean climber Kim Chang-ho set a new speed record of climbing all 14 eight-thousanders, without the use of supplementary oxygen, in 7 years and 310 days. On 29 October 2019, the British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja set a speed record of 6 months and 6 days for climbing all 14 eight-thousanders with the use of supplementary oxygen.^{[16] [17] [18]} On 27 July 2023, Kristin Harila and Tenjen Lama Sherpa set a new speed record of 92 days for climbing all 14 eight-thousanders with supplementary oxygen.

Deadliest

See also: List of deaths on eight-thousanders.

Estimated sample death rates for the 14 eight-thousanders^{[19] [20]}

Eight thousander	From 1950 to March 2012			Climber death rate [21] [22]
	Total ascents	Total deaths	Deaths as % of ascents
Everest	5656	223	3.9%	1.52%
K2	283	40	14.1%	3.00%
Lhotse	461	13	2.8%	1.03%
Makalu	361	31	8.6%	1.63%
Cho Oyu	3138	44	1.4%	0.64%
Dhaulagiri I	448	69	15.4%	2.94%
Manaslu	661	65	9.8%	2.77%
Nanga Parbat	335	68	20.3%	–
Annapurna I	191	61	31.9%	4.05%
Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak)	334	29	8.7%	–
Broad Peak	404	21	5.2%	–
Gasherbrum II	930	21	2.3%	–
Kangchenjunga	243	40	16%	3.00%
Shishapangma	302	25	8.3%

The eight-thousanders are the world's deadliest mountains. The extreme altitude and the fact that the summits of all eight-thousanders lie in the Death Zone mean that climber mortality (or death rate) is high.^[23] Two metrics are quoted to establish a death rate (i.e. broad and narrow) that are used to rank the eight-thousanders in order of deadliest.

• Broad death rate: The first metric is the ratio of total deaths on the mountain to successful climbers summiting over a given period. The Guinness Book of World Records uses this metric to name Annapurna I as the deadliest eight-thousander, and the world's deadliest mountain with roughly one person dying for every three people who successfully summit, i.e. a ratio of circa 30%.^[24] Using consistent data from 1950 to 2012, mountaineering statistician Eberhard Jurgalski (see table) used this metric to show Annapurna is the deadliest mountain (31.9%), followed by K2 (26.5%), Nanga Parbat (20.3%), Dhaulagiri (15.4%) and Kangchenjunga (14.1%). Other statistical sources including MountainIQ, used a mix of data periods from 1900 to Spring 2021 but had similar results showing Annapurna still being the deadliest mountain (27.2%), followed by K2 (22.8%), Nanga Parbat (20.75%), Kangchenjunga (15%), and Dhaulagiri (13.5%).^{[25] [23]} Cho Oyu was the safest at 1.4%.^[25]
• Narrow death rate: The drawback of the first metric is that it includes the deaths of any support climbers or climbing sherpas that went above base camp in assisting the climb; therefore, rather than being the probability that a climber will die attempting to summit an eight-thousander, it is more akin to the total human cost in getting a climber to the summit.^[21] In the Himalayan Database (HDB) tables, the climber (or member) "Death Rate" is the ratio of deaths above base camp, of all climbers who were hoping to summit and who went above base camp (calculated for 1950 to 2009), and is closer to a true probability of death (see table below).^[21] The data is only for the Nepalese Himalaya and therefore does not include K2 or Nanga Parbat.^[21] HDB estimates the probability of death for a climber attempting the summit of an eight-thousander is still highest for Annapurna I (4%), followed by Kangchenjunga (3%) and Dhaulagiri (3%); the safest is still Cho Oyu at 0.6%.^[21]

The tables from the HDB for eight-thousanders also show that the death rate of climbers for the period 1990 to 2009 (e.g. modern expeditions), is roughly half that of the combined 1950 to 2009 period, i.e. climbing is becoming safer for the climbers attempting the summit.^[21]

List of first ascents

From 1950 to 1964, all 14 of the eight-thousanders were summited in the summer (the first was Annapurna I in 1950, and the last was Shishapangma in 1964), and from 1980 to 2021, all 14 were summited in the winter (the first being Everest in 1980, and the last being K2 in 2021).

First ascent and first winter ascent for each of the 14 eight-thousanders

Mountain				First ascent		First winter ascent
Name	Height[26]	Prom.	Country	Date	Summiter(s)	Date	Summiter(s)
Everest	8849abbr=onNaNabbr=on[27]	8849abbr=onNaNabbr=on		29 May 1953	on British expedition	17 February 1980
K2	8611abbr=onNaNabbr=on	4020abbr=onNaNabbr=on	[28]	31 July 1954	on Italian expedition	16 January 2021	Nirmal Purja Gelje Sherpa Mingma David Sherpa Mingma Gyalje Sherpa Sona Sherpa Mingma Tenzi Sherpa Pem Chhiri Sherpa Dawa Temba Sherpa Kili Pemba Sherpa Dawa Tenjing Sherpa
Kangchenjunga	8586abbr=onNaNabbr=on	3922abbr=onNaNabbr=on	[29]	25 May 1955	on British expedition	11 January 1986
Lhotse	8516abbr=onNaNabbr=on	610abbr=onNaNabbr=on		18 May 1956		31 December 1988
Makalu	8485abbr=onNaNabbr=on	2378abbr=onNaNabbr=on		15 May 1955		9 February 2009
Cho Oyu	8188abbr=onNaNabbr=on	2344abbr=onNaNabbr=on		19 October 1954		12 February 1985
Dhaulagiri I	8167abbr=onNaNabbr=on	3357abbr=onNaNabbr=on		13 May 1960		21 January 1985
Manaslu	8163abbr=onNaNabbr=on	3092abbr=onNaNabbr=on		9 May 1956		12 January 1984
Nanga Parbat	8125abbr=onNaNabbr=on	4608abbr=onNaNabbr=on		3 July 1953	on German–Austrian expedition	26 February 2016
Annapurna I	8091abbr=onNaNabbr=on	2984abbr=onNaNabbr=on		3 June 1950	on French expedition	3 February 1987
Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak)	8080abbr=onNaNabbr=on	2155abbr=onNaNabbr=on		5 July 1958		9 March 2012
Broad Peak	8051abbr=onNaNabbr=on	1701abbr=onNaNabbr=on		9 June 1957		5 March 2013
Gasherbrum II	8034abbr=onNaNabbr=on	1524abbr=onNaNabbr=on		7 July 1956		2 February 2011
Shishapangma	8027abbr=onNaNabbr=on	2897abbr=onNaNabbr=on		2 May 1964	Doji	14 January 2005

List of climbers of all 14

There is no single undisputed source or arbitrator for verified ascents of Himalayan eight-thousander peaks.

Various mountaineering journals, including the Alpine Journal and the American Alpine Journal, also maintain extensive records and archives on expeditions to the eight-thousanders, but do not always opine on disputed ascents, and nor do they maintain registers or lists of verified ascents of the eight-thousanders.^[30]

Elizabeth Hawley's The Himalayan Database,^[31] is considered as an important source for verified ascents for the Nepalese Himalayas. Online databases of Himalayan ascents pay close regard to The Himalayan Database, including the website AdventureStats.com,^[32] and the Eberhard Jurgalski List.^{[30] [33]}

Verified ascents

The "No O₂" column lists people who have climbed all 14 eight-thousanders without supplementary oxygen.

List of climbers who have summited all 14 eight-thousanders^[34] !Order!Order
(No O₂)!Name!Period climbing
eight-thousanders!Born!Age!Nationality

1	1	Reinhold Messner	1970–1986	1944	42	Italian
2		Jerzy Kukuczka	1979–1987	1948	39	Polish
3	2	Erhard Loretan	1982–1995	1959	36	Swiss
4	[35]	Carlos Carsolio	1985–1996	1962	33	Mexican
5		Krzysztof Wielicki	1980–1996	1950	46	Polish
6	3	Juanito Oiarzabal	1985–1999	1956	43	Spanish
7		Sergio Martini	1983–2000	1949	51	Italian
8		Park Young-seok	1993–2001	1963	38	Korean
9		Um Hong-gil	1988–2001	1960[36]	40	Korean
10	4	Alberto Iñurrategi	1991–2002[37]	1968	33	Spanish
11		Han Wang-yong	1994–2003	1966	37	Korean
12	5[38]	Ed Viesturs	1989–2005	1959	46	American
13	6[39] [40] [41]	Silvio Mondinelli	1993–2007	1958	49	Italian
14	7[42]	Iván Vallejo	1997–2008	1959	49	Ecuadorian
15	8[43]	Denis Urubko	2000–2009	1973	35	Kazakhstani
16		Ralf Dujmovits	1990–2009	1961[44]	47	German
17[45]	9[46]	Veikka Gustafsson	1993–2009	1968	41	Finnish
18[47]		Andrew Lock	1993–2009	1961[48]	48	Australian
19	10	João Garcia	1993–2010	1967	43	Portuguese
20[49]		Piotr Pustelnik	1990–2010	1951	58	Polish
21[50]		Edurne Pasaban	2001–2010	1973	36	Spanish
22[51]		Abele Blanc	1992–2011[52] [53]	1954	56	Italian
23		Mingma Sherpa	2000–2011	1978	33	Nepali
24	11	Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner	1998–2011	1970	40	Austrian
25			2001–2011	1975	36	Kazakhstani
26	12	Maxut Zhumayev	2001–2011	1977	34	Kazakhstani
27			2000–2011	1961	50	Korean
28[54]	13	Mario Panzeri	1988–2012	1964	48	Italian
29[55]		Hirotaka Takeuchi	1995–2012	1971	41	Japanese
30		Chhang Dawa Sherpa	2001–2013	1982	30	Nepali
31	14	Kim Chang-ho	2005–2013	1970	43	Korean
32			2002–2014[56]	1968	45	Spanish
33	15	Radek Jaroš	1998–2014	1964	50	Czech
34/35[57]	16/17	Nives Meroi	1998–2017[58] [59]	1961	55	Italian
34/35	16/17		1998–2017[60]	1962	55	Italian / Slovenian
36			1998–2017[61] [62] [63]	1964	52	Slovak
37	18	Azim Gheychisaz	2008–2017[64]	1981	37	Iranian
38		Ferran Latorre	1999–2017[65]	1970	46	Spanish
39	19	Òscar Cadiach	1984–2017[66]	1952	64	Spanish
40		Kim Mi-gon	2000–2018[67] [68]	1973	45	Korean
41		Sanu Sherpa	2006–2019[69]	1975	44	Nepali
42		Nirmal Purja	2014–2019[70]	1983	36	British
43		Mingma Gyabu Sherpa	2010–2019[71] [72]	1989	30	Nepali
44		Kim Hong-bin	2006–2021[73] [74] [75]	1964	57	Korean
45		Nima Gyalzen Sherpa	2004–2022[76] [77]	1985	37	Nepali
46		Dong Hong Juan	2015–2023[78] [79]	1981	42	Chinese
47		Kristin Harila	2021–2023[80] [81]	1986	37	Norwegian
48			2012–2023[82] [83] [84] [85]	1968	55	Swiss / French / Canadian
49		Tunç Fındık	2001–2023	1972	51	Turkish
50		Tenjen Lama Sherpa	2016–2023[86] [87] [88]		35[89]	Nepali
51		Gelje Sherpa	2017–2023[90] [91]	1992[92]	30	Nepali
52		Chris Warner	1999–2023[93]	1965	58	American
53	20	Marco Camandona	2000–2024[94] [95]	1970	54	Italian
54		Sirbaz Khan	2017–2024[96] [97] [98] [99]	1987	37	Pakistani
55		Tracee Metcalfe	2016–4 October 2024[100]		50	American
56		Naoki Ishikawa				Japanese
57		Dawa Gyalje Sherpa				Nepali
58	21	Mingma Gyalje Sherpa				Nepali
59		Adrian Laza	2016–9 October 2024[101]	1963	60	Romanian
60		Nima Rinji Sherpa	2022-2024[102] [103]	2006[104]	18	Nepali
61	22		1998-2024[105]	1964	60	Italian
62			2021-2024[106] [107] [108]			Polish
63		Adriana Brownlee	2021-2024[109]	2001	23	British
64		Alasdair McKenzie	2022-2024	2004	20	French / British
65		Alina Pekova	2023–2024[110]			Russian
66		Shehroze Kashif	2019-2024[111] [112] [113]	2002	22	Pakistani
67		Mingtemba Sherpa	2013-2024[114] [115]			Nepali
68		Pasang Nurbu Sherpa	2016-2024[116] [117] [118]			Nepali

Disputed ascents

Claims have been made for summiting all 14 peaks for which not enough evidence was provided to verify the ascent; the disputed ascent in each claim is shown in parentheses in the table below. In most cases, the Himalayan chronicler Elizabeth Hawley is considered a definitive source regarding the facts of the dispute. Her The Himalayan Database is the source for other online Himalayan ascent databases (e.g. AdventureStats.com).^{[119] [120]} The Eberhard Jurgalski List is also another important source for independent verification of claims to have summited all 14 eight-thousanders.^[30]

width=530px	Name and details	Period climbing eight-thousanders	Born	Age	Nationality
(Lhotse 1997)[121]	1983–1998	1952	46	Italian
Alan Hinkes (Cho Oyu 1990)[122] [123]	1987–2005	1954	53	British
Vladislav Terzyul (Shishapangma (West) 2000, Broad Peak 1995[124] [125])[126] [127]	1993–2004 (deceased)	1953	49	Ukrainian
Oh Eun-sun (Kangchenjunga 2009)[128] [129] [130]	1997–2010	1966	44	Korean
(Shishapangma 2012)[131] [132]	2001–2013	1963	50	Spanish
Zhang Liang (Shishapangma 2018)[133] [134] [135]	2000–2018	1964	54	Chinese

Verification issues

A recurrent problem with verification is the confirmation that the climber reached the true peak of the eight-thousander. Eight-thousanders present unique problems in this regard as they are so infrequently summited, their summits have not yet been exhaustively surveyed, and summiting climbers are often suffering the extreme altitude and weather effects of being in the death zone.^[30]

Cho Oyu for example, is a recurrent problem eight-thousander as its true peak is a small hump about a thirty minutes walk into the large flat summit plateau that lies in the death zone. The true peak is often obscured in very poor weather, and this led to the disputed ascent (per the table above) of British climber, Alan Hinkes (who has refused to re-climb the peak).^{[136] [137]} Shishapangma is another problem peak because of its dual summits, which despite being close in height, are up to two hours climbing time apart and require the crossing of an exposed and dangerous snow ridge.^{[30] [138]} When Hawley judged that Ed Viesturs had not reached the true summit of Shishapangma (which she deduced from his summit photos and interviews), he then re-climbed the mountain to definitively establish his ascent.^{[139] [30]}

In a May 2021 interview with the New York Times, Jurgalski pointed out further issues with false summits on Annapurna I (a long ridge with multiple summits), Dhaulagiri (misleading false summit metal pole), and Manaslu (additional sharp and dangerous ridge to the true summit, like Shishapangma), noting that of the existing 44 accepted claims (as per the table earlier), at least 7 had serious question marks (these were in addition to the table of disputed ascents), and even noting that "It is possible that no one has ever been on the true summit of all 14 of the 8,000-meter peaks".^[30] In June 2021, Australian climber Damien Gildea wrote an article in the American Alpine Journal on the work that Jurgalski and a team of international experts were doing in this area, including publishing detailed surveys of the problem summits using data from the German Aerospace Center.^[140]

In July 2022, Jurgalski posted conclusions of the team's research (the wider team being of Rodolphe Popier and Tobias Pantel of The Himalayan Database, and Damien Gildea, Federico Bernardi, and Thaneswar Guragai).^[141] According to their analysis, only three climbers, Ed Viesturs, Veikka Gustafsson and Nirmal Purja have stood on the true summit of all 14 eight-thousanders, and no female climber had yet done so. Viesturs is also the first to have done so without the use of oxygen. Jurgalski allowed for the fact that they had deliberately not stood on the true summit of Kangchenjunga out of religious respect.^[142] The team has not formally published their work, and according to Popier, they had not decided about "the best respectful form to present it".

Proposed expansion

In 2012, to relieve capacity pressure and overcrowding on the world's highest mountain, greater restrictions were placed on expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest.^[143] To address the growing capacity constraints, Nepal lobbied the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (or UIAA) to reclassify five subsidiary summits (two on Lhotse and three on Kanchenjunga), as standalone eight-thousanders, while Pakistan lobbied for a sixth subsidiary summit (on Broad Peak) as a standalone eight-thousander.^[144] See table below for list of all subsidiary summits of eight-thousanders.

In 2012, the UIAA initiated the ARUGA Project, with an aim to see if these six new -plus peaks could feasibly achieve international recognition.^[144] The proposed six new eight-thousander peaks have a topographic prominence above, but none would meet the wider UIAA prominence threshold of (the lowest prominence of the existing 14 eight-thousanders is Lhotse, at).^[145] Critics noted that of the six proposed, only Broad Peak Central, with a prominence of, would even meet the prominence threshold to be a British Isles Marilyn.^[146] The appeal noted the UIAA's 1994 reclassification of Alpine four-thousander peaks used a prominence threshold of, amongst other criteria; the logic being that if worked for summits, then is proportional for summits.^[147]

, there has been no conclusion by the UIAA and the proposals appear to have been set aside.

List of the subsidiary peaks of the 14 eight-thousanders^[148]

Proposed new eight-thousander	Height (m)	Prominence (m)	Dominance (Prom / Height) as a %	Dominance classification[149]
Broad Peak Central	8011	181	2.26	B2
Kangchenjunga W-Peak (Yalung Kang)	8505	135	1.59	C1
Kangchenjunga S-Peak	8476	116	1.37	C2
Kangchenjunga C-Peak	8473	63	0.74	C2
Lhotse C-Peak I (Lhotse Middle)	8410	65	0.77	C2
Lhotse Shar	8382	72	0.86	C2
K 2 SW-Peak	8580	30	0.35	D1
Lhotse C-Peak II	8372	37	0.44	D1
Everest W-Peak	8296	30	0.36	D1
Yalung Kang Shoulder	8200	40	0.49	D1
Kangchenjunga SE-Peak	8150	30	0.37	D1
K 2 P. 8134 (SW-Ridge)	8134	35	0.43	D1
Annapurna C-Peak	8051	49	0.61	D1
Nanga Parbat S-Peak	8042	30	0.37	D1
Annapurna E-Peak	8026	65	0.81	C2
Shisha Pangma C-Peak	8008	30	0.37	D1
Everest NE-Shoulder	8423	19	0.23	D2
Everest NE-Pinnacle III	8383	13	0.16	D2
Lhotse N-Pinnacle III	8327	10	0.12	D2
Lhotse N-Pinnacle II	8307	12	0.14	D2
Lhotse N-Pinnacle I	8290	10	0.12	D2
Everest NE-Pinnacle II	8282	25	0.30	D2

See also

• List of deaths on eight-thousanders
• List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
• List of ski descents of eight-thousanders
• Three Poles Challenge, the North Pole, the South Pole, and Mount Everest
• Explorers Grand Slam, the North Pole, the South Pole, and the Seven Summits
• Volcanic Seven Summits, the highest volcanos on each continent
• Fourteener, peak with at least 14,000 ft. elevation
• List of mountains by elevation

External links

• 8000ers.com, a site dedicated to statistics on 8000m peaks and climbs
• PeakBagger.com World 8000-meter Peaks, a database of global peaks
• The Himalayan Database, statistics on Nepalese Himalayan (but not Pakistan Himalaya) climbs from 1905 to 2018
• , a site dedicated to recording adventure statistics
• NASA Earth Observatory: The Eight-Thousanders

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5. Web site: . "It's a Suffering Game": Simone Moro and the Fine Art of Climbing 8,000m Peaks in Winter . 13 December 2021 . 4 August 2022 . Marcello . Rossi.
6. Web site: PlanetMountain . Erhard Loretan, good-bye to a great alpinist . 29 April 2011 . 4 August 2022 . Vinicio . Stefanello.
7. Web site: Oh Eun-Sun report, final: Edurne Pasaban takes the throne. ExplorersWeb. 10 December 2010. subscription. 2014-01-04. 16 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160416151948/http://explorersweb.com/everest_k2/news.php?id=19771. dead.
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39. Web site: Mounteverest.net . Last year, Silvio 'Gnaro' Mondinelli broke the haunted 13 when he summited the last peak on his list of 14, 8000ers – becoming only the 6th mountaineer in the world to have bagged them all without supplementary oxygen. . The wolf is back: Gnaro bags Baruntse . 2008-11-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081028140452/http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=17691 . 2008-10-28 . dead .
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57. Nives Meroi and Romano Benet climbed all the Eight-thousanders together, it wasn't revealed if one of them climbed the last peak a few moments before the other, thus they share the same position
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63. Web site: HZDS flag flies from Everest summit . Tom Nicholson . spectator.sme.sk . 4 June 1998 . 2021-12-28.
64. Web site: قیچی‌ساز حماسه ساز شد/کوهنورد تبریزی به هشت هزاری‌ها پیوست . yjc . 19 May 2017. 2017-05-19.
65. Web site: Ferran Latorre completa los catorce ochomiles en el Everest. desnivel.com. 27 May 2017. 2017-05-27. es. 5 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170705061639/http://desnivel.com/expediciones/ferran-latorre-completa-los-catorce-ochomiles-en-el-everest. dead.
66. Web site: Cadiach, camino del campo 3 tras coronar el Broad Peak. La Vanguardia. 27 July 2017. 2017-07-27. es.
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68. Web site: South Korean Climbs Nanga Parbat, Completes 8,000ers. Gripped. 12 July 2018. 2019-11-26.
69. Web site: Sanu Sherpa becomes third Nepali to complete 14 peaks as Sergi Mingote scales 7 mountains in 444 days. The Himalayan Times. 3 October 2019. 2019-11-11.
70. Web site: Nirmal Purja summits 5th eight-thousander in 12 days, ends 1st phase of 'Project Possible'. May 24, 2019. Dreamwanderlust.com.com. Dream Wanderlust. May 26, 2019.
71. Web site: Reflections While Waiting for News from Shishapangma. Explorersweb.com. 29 October 2019. 2019-11-26.
72. Web site: Nepalese Climber Summits World's 14 Highest Peaks in 6 Months, Smashing Record. NPR.
73. Web site: South Korean missing after fall while scaling Pakistani peak . Munir Ahmed . Times Union . 20 July 2021 . 2021-07-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210720123713/https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/South-Korean-missing-after-fall-while-scaling-16325874.php . 20 July 2021 . dead.
74. Web site: Fingerless Korean goes missing after achieving the feat of climbing all 14 Himalayan peaks . The Korea Times . 20 July 2021 . 2021-07-20 .
75. Web site: Kim Hong-bin: Without fingers on 13 eight-thousanders . Stefan Nestler . Adventure Mountain . 10 July 2019 . 2021-07-20.
76. Web site: Nima Gyalzen Sherpa becomes the 6th Nepali in the 14 Peaks club . everestchronicle.com . 11 August 2022. 2022-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220811215622/https://everestchronicle.com/nima-gyalzen-sherpa-becomes-the-6th-nepali-in-the-14-peaks-club/ . 2022-08-11. dead.
77. Web site: Nima Gyalzen completes 14 peaks as Grace Tseng, Kristin Harila scale G-I . thehimalayantimes.com . 11 August 2022 . 18 August 2022.
78. Web site: Benavides . Angela . 2023-04-26 . Dong Hong Juan Climbs Shishapangma; May Be the First Woman to Summit all 14 8,000'ers » Explorersweb . 2023-05-04 . Explorersweb.
79. Web site: 2023-05-01 . China's Dong becomes first woman to conquer all 14 peaks above-8,000m . 2023-06-04 . Chinadaily.com . en.
80. News: Kristin Harila scales Mount Shishapangma . everestchronicle.com . 26 April 2023 . 2023-05-04.
81. Web site: 2023-05-03 . Kristin Harila completes 14 peaks as she scales Cho Oyu . 2023-05-03 . The Himalayan Times . en.
82. Web site: Sophie Lavaud, first French mountaineer to climb all the peaks over 8,000 m on the planet – Liberation . Time News . 26 June 2023 . 2023-06-28 .
83. Web site: Sophie Lavaud becomes first French person to climb world's highest peaks . RFI . 26 June 2023 . 2023-06-28 .
84. Web site: Benavides . Angela . 2023-06-26 . Nanga Parbat Summits » Explorersweb . 2023-06-28 . Explorersweb.
85. Web site: 2023-06-26 . A 17-year-old Nepali teenager scales the 'Killer Mountain' . 2023-06-28 . Everest Chronicle.
86. Web site: 2023-07-27 . Arnette . Alan . K2 2023 Coverage: Kristin Harila gets K2 for her Last 8000er . 2023-07-27 . alanarnette.com . en.
87. Web site: 2023-07-27 . Kristin Harila, Tenjen Sherpa world's fastest to climb 14 peaks in 92 days . 2023-07-27 . The Himalayan Times . en.
88. Web site: Seven Summit Treks Tenjen Sherpa (Lama) . 2023-07-30 . 28 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230728013647/https://www.sevensummittreks.com/team/field-staffs/tenjen-sherpa-lama . dead .
89. Web site: 2023-07-27 . Gopal Sharma . Norwegian woman, Nepali sherpa become world's fastest to climb all 14 tallest peaks . 2023-07-28 . Reuters . en.
90. Web site: Gelje Sherpa joins the 14 peak club with summit on Cho Oyu; Nima Rinji sets youngest climber record . everestchronicle.com . 6 October 2023. 2023-10-24.
91. Web site: Nepali and Pakistani Climbers Make History on Cho Oyu . whatthenepal.com . 6 October 2023 . 2023-10-24.
92. Web site: After K2 in Winter, Gelje Sherpa (28) aims to become the youngest to climb all 14 8Ks . Dream Wanderlust . DreamWanderlust.com . 30 March 2021 . 2023-11-02.
93. Web site: This Climber Just Became the Second American to climb Every 8,000 Meter Peak . Outside. 22 September 2023. 20 March 2024 . Jake . Stern.
94. Web site: 2024-07-30 . Camandona completa la collezione degli ottomila, "quasi un gioco" - Notizie - Ansa.it . 2024-07-30 . Agenzia ANSA . it.
95. Web site: Annapurna . Kris . 2024-07-30 . More Summits on K2, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum II . 2024-08-01 . ExplorersWeb.
96. Web site: Sirbaz Khan becomes first Pakistani to conquer 14 world's highest peaks . 2024-10-04 . www.geosuper.tv . en-US.
97. Web site: 2024-10-03 . Sirbaz to become first Pakistani to summit 14 eight-thousanders . 2024-10-04 . en-US.
98. Web site: Sirbaz Khan to Become First Pakistani Mountaineer to Summit All 14 Eight-Thousanders .
99. Web site: Imagine Nepal: 11 climbers reach the true summit, where five of them complete all 14 highest peaks, and Mingma G sets an oxygen-free record. . imagine-nepal.com . 2024-10-04 . 2024-10-13 . en.
100. Web site: Benavides . Angela . 2024-10-07 . Tracee Metcalfe Becomes First U.S. Woman to Climb the World's Highest Peaks » Explorersweb . 2024-10-09 . Explorersweb.
101. Web site: 2023-05-30 . Reuşită în Himalaya. Adrian Laza, alt optmiar cucerit. „Este un alt fel de om. Nu face parte din această lume“ FOTO . 2024-10-09 . adevarul.ro . ro.
102. Web site: 2024-10-09 . Nima Rinji becomes world's youngest to scale all 14 peaks . 2024-10-09 . The Himalayan Times . en.
103. Web site: Benavides . Angela . 2024-09-28 . No Oxygen Claims Create Uncertainty on Shisha Pangma » Explorersweb . 2024-10-09 . Explorersweb.
104. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/771970-youngest-person-to-climb-the-higher-8-000ers-male
105. Web site: Mario Vielmo come Messner, l'alpinista ha conquistato anche l’ultimo Ottomila. Corriere della Sera. 10 October 2024. 2024-10-10. it.
106. Web site: Pierwsza Polka z Koroną Himalajów i Karakorum! To się naprawdę stało, brawo! . Maciej Skorupa . przegladsportowy.onet.pl . 2024-10-09 . 2024-10-09. pl.
107. Web site: Shisha Pangma: Dorota Rasińska-Samoćko wchodzi na szczyt i zdobywa Koronę Himalajów i Karakorum . wspinanie.pl . 2024-10-09 . 2024-10-09. pl.
108. Web site: Seven Summit Treks announces 100% summit success on Shisha Pangma . thehimalayantimes.com . 2024-10-09 . 2024-10-09 . en.
109. Web site: Seven Summit Treks announces 100% summit success on Shisha Pangma . thehimalayantimes.com . 2024-10-09 . 2024-10-09 . en.
110. Web site: 2024-10-09 . More than a dozen newcomers to the list of climbers with all 14 eight-thousanders . 2024-10-11 . abenteuer-berg.de . en.
111. https://tribune.com.pk/story/2501668/shehroze-kashif-sets-record-as-youngest-pakistani-to-summit-all-14-peaks
112. https://www.dawn.com/news/1864091
113. https://thefridaytimes.com/09-Oct-2024/shehroze-kashif-becomes-youngest-pakistani-to-summit-all-8-000m-mountains
114. https://www.nimsdai.com/post/breaking-kathmandu-celebration-for-nimsdai-team-and-fellow-record-breaking-nepalis
115. https://everestchronicle.com/adriana-brownlee-becomes-youngest-female-climber-to-complete-14-peaks/
116. https://www.nimsdai.com/post/breaking-kathmandu-celebration-for-nimsdai-team-and-fellow-record-breaking-
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118. https://everestchronicle.com/nima-rinji-sherpa-becomes-youngest-to-summit-14-highest-peaks/
119. If a mountaineer wants worldwide recognition that they have reached the summit of some of the most formidable mountains in the world, they will need to get the approval of Elizabeth Hawley.Web site: Elizabeth Hawley, unrivalled Himalayan record keeper. BBC News. 29 August 2010.
120. Web site: Elizabeth Hawley, Who Chronicled Everest Treks, Dies at 94. The New York Times. 26 January 2018.
121. Web site: Seasonal Stories for the Nepalese Himalaya 1985–2014. 274. Elizabeth Hawley. Elizabeth Hawley. 2014. The Himalayan Database. But a South Korean climber, who followed in their footprints on the crusted snow three days later [in 1997] in clearer weather, did not consider that they actually gained the top. While [Sergio] Martini and [Fausto] De Stefani indicated they were perhaps only a few meters below it, Park Young-Seok claimed that their footprints stopped well before the top, perhaps 30 meters below a small fore-summit and 150 vertical meters below the highest summit. Now in 2000 [Sergio] Martini was back again, and this time he definitely summited Lhotse..
122. Web site: AdventureStats.net . Official records . Climbers that have summited 10 to 13 of the 14 Main-8000ers . https://web.archive.org/web/20070803232853/http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/10-13_8000er.shtml . usurped . 3 August 2007 . 2008-11-30 .
123. Web site: Seasonal Stories for the Nepalese Himalaya 1985–2014. 347. Elizabeth Hawley. Elizabeth Hawley. The Himalayan Database. 2014. But his claim to have now climbed all 8000ers is open to question. In April 1990 he and others reached the summit plateau of Cho Oyu. It was misty so they could not see well; nine years later Hinkes said he had “wandered around for a while” in the summit area but could see very little and eventually descended to join the others, one of whom said they had not reached the top..
124. Web site: Vladislav Terz. www.russianclimb.com. 2016-04-28.
125. Web site: AdventureStats – by Explorersweb. https://web.archive.org/web/20070803232853/http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/10-13_8000er.shtml. usurped. 3 August 2007. www.adventurestats.com. 2016-04-28.
126. Web site: Russianclimb.com . Mountaineering World of Russia & CIS . Vladislav Terzyul, List of ascents . 2009-10-06 .
127. Web site: Sad results on Makalu and Unanswered Questions: 1 missing climber and 1 passed away on Makalu . Everestnews2004.com . 2014-02-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120512112330/http://www.everestnews2004.com/everestnews4/missingonmaklau2004.htm . 12 May 2012 .
128. Web site: Everest K2 News ExplorersWeb – More dark clouds mounting on Anna summit push; Miss Oh's Kanchen summit "disputed" after renewed accusations . Explorersweb.com . 26 April 2010 . 2014-01-21 . 15 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120315125813/http://explorersweb.com/everest_k2/news.php?id=19284 . dead .
129. News: New doubts over Korean Oh Eun-Sun's climbing record, Hawley to investigate . BBC News . 27 August 2010.
130. What would appear to be the most serious blow to Miss Oh, on 26 August this year the Korean Alpine Federation, the nation's largest climbing association, concluded that Miss Oh had not reached the top of Kangchenjunga.Web site: Seasonal Stories for the Nepalese Himalaya 1985–2014. 394. . 2014.
131. Web site: Desnivel; Carlos Pauner consigue la cima del Everest . Desnivel.com . 2014-01-21 . 23 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151023003023/http://desnivel.com/expediciones/carlos-pauner-consigue-la-cima-del-everest . dead .
132. Web site: Carlos Pauner is not sure if they hit the top of the Shisha Pangma (8,027). lainformacion.com. 18 February 2016. 31 May 2018. 21 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180921225955/https://www.lainformacion.com/deporte/alpinismo-montanismo/carlos-pauner-no-tiene-claro-si-hollaron-la-cima-del-shisha-pangma-8-027_RtasCrUfYbQZ3CoKnrTlJ3/. dead.
133. Web site: CCTV; 罗静等23名中国登山者登顶希夏邦马峰 . CCTV . 29 September 2018 . 2019-06-05.
134. Web site: The Himalayan Times; Four Chinese climbers complete all 14 peaks above 8,000m this autumn . The Himalayan Times . 29 September 2018 . 2019-06-05.
135. Web site: Luo Jing no alcanzó la cima principal del Shisha Pangma . es . Luo Jing did not reach the main peak of the Shishapangma . Desnivel.com . 4 October 2018 . 2020-09-25.
136. I have summited Cho Oyu 4 times and will be heading for my fifth this coming season. Each time I have watched the Koreans and Japanese go only to where they can see Everest, not the summit because they know this is what will be asked.Web site: Cho Oyu summit: Where is it exactly. Explorersweb.com. September 2017.
137. Many people who climb Cho Oyu in Tibet stop at a set of prayer flags with views of Everest and believe they’ve reached the top, unaware they still have to walk for 15 minutes across the summit plateau until they can see the Gokyo Lakes in Nepal.Web site: When is a summit not a summit?. Mark Horrell. 12 November 2014.
138. Web site: Asia, Tibet, Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma Central (West) Summit. American Alpine Journal. 1991.
139. Book: Keeper of the Mountains: The Elizabeth Hawley Story. 185–195. Rocky Mountain Books. 5 October 2012. 978-1927330159.
140. . June 2021 . Damien . Gildea . THE 8000-ER MESS . 10 December 2021 . 62 . 94 . Damien Gildea.
141. Web site: The Debate Over Manaslu’s Summit Is Over. Now, Hundreds of Climbers Want to Reach It. . Dewan Rai . 19 September 2022 . outsideonline.com . 2024-11-04.
142. Web site: . Researchers challenge historical records for 8000-meter peaks . 20 July 2022 . 3 August 2022 . Derek . Franz.
143. Web site: The new peaks opened as alternatives to Mount Everest. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/mounteverest/10260776/The-new-peaks-opened-as-alternatives-to-Mount-Everest.html . 11 January 2022 . subscription . live. The Daily Telegraph. Richard Gray. 23 August 2013. Nepal.
144. Web site: Nepal mountain peak expansion bid stalls. BBC News. Navin Singh Khadka. 18 October 2013.
145. Web site: A funny name for a mountain. Mark Horrell. 4 June 2014.
146. Web site: Do we really need more 8000m peaks. Mark Horrell. 23 October 2013. The most prominent one, Broad Peak Central is just 196m high and the least prominent, Lhotse Middle, is a meagre 60m. To put this in context, the highest mountain in Malta is 253m, while the Eiffel Tower stands a whopping 300m..
147. Web site: UIAA Mountain Classification: 4,000ERS OF THE ALPS. March 1994. UIAA. Topographic criterium: for each summit, the level difference between it and the highest adjacent pass or notch should be at least (calculated as average of the summits at the limit of acceptability). An additional criterium can be the horizontal distance between a summit and the base of another adjacent 4000er.. 23 November 2018. 9 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200909020135/https://www.theuiaa.org/mountaineering/mountain-classification/. dead.
148. Web site: Subsidiary Peaks. 8000ers.com. Eberhard Jurgalski.

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     . 23 November 2018. There are several different subsidiary peaks! Here are the geographical facts, from the one "relative independent Main-Peak" (EU category B) over the important subsidiary peaks (C) to the major notable points (D1) Especially the last category is just guessed by contours or from photographs..
149. Web site: Dominance. 8000ers.com. Eberhard Jurgalski.

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     . 23 November 2018. Accordingly, the author introduced altitude classes (AC) and a proportional prominence, which he named orometrical dominance (D). D is calculated easily but fittingly: (P/Alt) x 100. Thus, it indicates the percentage of independence for every elevation, no matter what the altitude, prominence or mountain type it is. From a scientific point of view, altitude could be seen as the thesis, prominence as the antithesis, whereas dominance would be the synthesis..