The eight-thousanders are the fourteen mountains over 8,000 metres (26,427 feet), all in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges of Asia.
List of eight-thousanders
| Peak
| Height
| Location
| Ascent
| First ascensionist(s)
|
| Everest
| 8850 m
| China(Tibet)/Nepal
| May 29, 1953
| Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
|
| K2
| 8611 m
| China/Pakistan
| July 31, 1954
| Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli
|
| Kanchenjunga
| 8586 m
| India/Nepal
| May 25, 1955
| George Band and Joe Brown
|
| Lhotse
| 8516 m
| China/Nepal
| May 18, 1956
| Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss
|
| Makalu
| 8463 m
| China/Nepal
| May 15, 1955
| Jean Couzy and Lionel Terray
|
| Cho Oyu
| 8201 m
| China/Nepal
| October 19, 1954
| Joseph Joechler, Pasang Dawa Lama, and Herbert Tichy
|
| Dhaulagiri
| 8167 m
| Nepal
| May 13, 1960
| Kurt Diemberger, Peter Diener, Nawang Dorje, Nima Dorje, Ernst Forrer, and Albin Schelbert
|
| Manaslu
| 8163 m
| Nepal
| May 9, 1956
| Toshia Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu
|
| Nanga Parbat
| 8126 m
| Pakistan
| July 3, 1953
| Hermann Buhl
|
| Annapurna
| 8091 m
| Nepal
| June 3, 1950
| Maurice Herzog, Louis Lachenal
|
| Gasherbrum I
| 8068 m
| China/Pakistan
| July 5, 1958
| Andrew Kauffman, Peter Schoening
|
| Broad Peak
| 8047 m
| China/Pakistan
| June 9, 1957
| Hermann Buhl, Kurt Diemberger, Marcus Schmuck, and Fritz Wintersteller
|
| Gasherbrum II
| 8035 m
| China/Pakistan
| July 8, 1956
| Josef Larch, Fritz Moravec, Hans Willenpart
|
| Shishapangma
| 8027 m
| China(Tibet)
| May 2, 1964
| Ten climbers led by Hsu Ching
|
The first person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders was Reinhold Messner in 1986. One year later, in 1987, Jerzy Kukuczka was the second man to reach this milestone.
External links
de:Liste der Achttausender
fr:Sommets de plus de huit mille mètres
pl:Ośmiotysięcznik
sl:Osemtisočak
