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World 8000-meter Peaks

Showing Ed Viesturs's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	Peak	Elev-Ft	Prom-Ft	Country	Range (Level 3)	Isol-Mi	Ascent Date
1.	Annapūrna	26,545	9790	Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	21.1	2005-05-12
	Annapurna East Pk.	26,332	348	Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	.4
	Annapurna-Middle Peak	26,414	364	Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	.5
2.	Broad Peak	26,414	5581	China/Pakistan	Karakoram	5.8	2003-07-15
	Broad Peak Central	26,299	643	Pakistan	Karakoram	.8
3.	Cho Oyu	26,864	7691	China/Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	17.7	1994
4.	Dhaulāgiri	26,795	11,014	Nepal	Western Nepal Himalaya	197.3	1999
5.	Gasherbrum I	26,509	7070	China/Pakistan	Karakoram	14.9	1995
6.	Gasherbrum II	26,362	5000	China/Pakistan	Karakoram	3.5	1995
7.	K2	28,261	13,189	China/Pakistan	Karakoram	817.3	1992-08-16
8.	Kāngchenjunga	28,169	12,867	India/Nepal	Sikkim-Eastern Nepal Himalaya	77.2	1989-05-18
	Kangchenjunga Central	27,799	109	India	Sikkim-Eastern Nepal Himalaya	.3
	Kangchenjunga South	27,808	249	India	Sikkim-Eastern Nepal Himalaya	.9
9.	Lhotse	27,940	2002	China/Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	1.7	1994
	Lhotse Shar	27,513	282	China/Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	.4
	Lhotse-Middle Summit	27,592	197	China/Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	.3
10.	Makalu	27,838	7802	China/Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	10.7	1995
11.	Manaslu	26,781	10,144	Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	65.6	1999
12.	Mount Everest	29,029	29,029	China/Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	Infinite	1994-09-05
	Mount Everest-South Summit	28,704	36	China/Nepal	Central Nepal Himalaya	.2
13.	Nanga Parbat	26,657	15,118	Pakistan	Punjab Himalaya	117.1	2003-06-23
	Shishapangma Central	26,273	354	China	Central Nepal Himalaya	.2
14.	Xixabangma Feng	26,335	9504	China	Central Nepal Himalaya	56.8	2000
	Yalung Kang	27,904	443	Nepal	Sikkim-Eastern Nepal Himalaya	.7

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List Description

This list is perhaps the most challenging of the well-known peakbagger's lists in the world. There are only 14 summits that rise above 8000 meters, every one of them projecting into the "death zone", where all humans rapidly degrade and eventually die without supplemental oxygen.

Ten of the 8000 meter peaks are in the Himalaya, and nine (all but Nanga Parbat) are in Nepal, on its border, or very close. The other four are clustered closely in the Karakoram Range (technically not part of the Himalaya).

The 8000 meter peaks were first climbed between 1950 (Annapurna) and 1964 (Shishma Pangma). The first to do all 14 was Reinhold Messner, completing on Lhotse in 1986. To date, fewer than ten others have joined this most exclusive of peakbagging clubs.

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Climbers that have completed the fourteen 8000m peaks

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