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Eight-thousander

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The eight-thousanders are the fourteen independent mountain

Mountain

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill. The adjective montane is used to describe mountainous areas and things associated with them...

s on Earth

Earth

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that are more than high above sea level

Sea level

Mean sea level is the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation.- Measurement :...

. They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram

Karakoram

Karakoram is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan , Ladakh , and Xinjiang...

mountain ranges in Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.Asia is traditionally defined as part of the...

.

The first recorded attempt on an eight-thousander took place on the expedition by Albert F. Mummery

Albert F. Mummery

Albert Frederick Mummery , was a British mountaineer and author. He was one of the first climbers to attempt the first ascent of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan but died in an avalanche while reconnoitering the mountain's Rakhiot Face.-Life:Mummery's father was a tanner and mayor of Dover...

, and J. Norman Collie

J. Norman Collie

John Norman Collie FRS , commonly referred to as J. Norman Collie, was a British scientist, mountaineer, and explorer.- Life and work :...

to Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain on Earth. Nanga Parbat means "Naked Mountain" in English, parbat deriving from the Sanskrit word parvata meaning "mountain, rock", and nanga from the Sanskrit word nagna meaning "naked, bare"...

in the territory of Kashmir(in present day Pakistan Administered Kashmir) in 1895; this attempt failed as Mummery and two Gurkha

Gurkha

Gurkha, also spelled as Gorkha or Ghurka, are people from Nepal and northern India who take their name from the eighth century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath. His disciple Bappa Rawal, born Prince Kalbhoj/Prince Shailadhish, founded the house of Mewar, Rajasthan...

s, Ragobir and Goman Singh, were killed by an avalanche.

The first recorded successful ascent of an eight-thousander was by Maurice Herzog

Maurice Herzog

Maurice Herzog is a French mountaineer and sports administrator who was born in Lyon, France.-Ascent of Annapurna:On June 3, 1950, Maurice Herzog became the first person to climb a peak over 8000m when, in the company of Louis Lachenal, he summited the Himalayan mountain Annapurna, the...

and Louis Lachenal

Louis Lachenal

Louis Lachenal , a French climber born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, was one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters. On 3 June 1950, along with Maurice Herzog, he reached the summit of Annapurna I in Nepal at a height of 8,091 m...

, who reached the summit of Annapurna

Annapurna

Annapurna is a series of peaks in the Himalayas, a -long massif of which the highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8091m, making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the 14 "eight-thousanders". It is located east of a great gorge cut through the Himalayas by the Kali Gandaki River,...

on June 3, 1950.

The first person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders was Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol, often cited as the greatest mountain climber of all time...

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The eight-thousanders are the fourteen independent mountain

Mountain

s on Earth

Earth

that are more than high above sea level

Sea level

Mean sea level is the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation.- Measurement :...

. They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram

Karakoram

Karakoram is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan , Ladakh , and Xinjiang...

mountain ranges in Asia

Asia

.

The first recorded attempt on an eight-thousander took place on the expedition by Albert F. Mummery

Albert F. Mummery

, and J. Norman Collie

J. Norman Collie

John Norman Collie FRS , commonly referred to as J. Norman Collie, was a British scientist, mountaineer, and explorer.- Life and work :...

to Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat

in the territory of Kashmir(in present day Pakistan Administered Kashmir) in 1895; this attempt failed as Mummery and two Gurkha

Gurkha

s, Ragobir and Goman Singh, were killed by an avalanche.

The first recorded successful ascent of an eight-thousander was by Maurice Herzog

Maurice Herzog

and Louis Lachenal

Louis Lachenal

, who reached the summit of Annapurna

Annapurna

on June 3, 1950.

The first person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders was Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol, often cited as the greatest mountain climber of all time...

. He completed this task on October 16, 1986. A year later, in 1987, Jerzy Kukuczka

Jerzy Kukuczka

Jerzy Kukuczka , born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world....

became the second climber to accomplish this feat. , a total of seventeen people have followed through undisputed. This is an extremely hazardous feat; at least four people have died while in pursuit of this goal. The man who has climbed the mountains of this category most times is Juanito Oiarzabal

Juanito Oiarzabal

Juan Oiarzabal Urteaga, commonly known as Juanito Oiarzabal, is a noted Basque mountaineer and has written four books on the subject...

; a total of 23 times since 1985 to 2009.

List of eight-thousanders

Peak	Height	Location	First ascent	First ascensionist(s)	First ascent in winter	First ascensionist(s) in winter	Ascents	Deaths	Death rate	Death rate before 1990^*	Death rate since 1990^*
Everest Mount Everest Mount Everest – also called Sagarmāthā , Chomolungma or Qomolangma or Zhumulangma – is the highest mountain on Earth, and the highest point on the Earth's crust, as measured by the height above sea level of its summit,...	8848 m	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India... /China China China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....	29 May 1953	NZL Edmund Hillary Edmund Hillary Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest,... NEPTenzing Norgay Tenzing Norgay Tenzing Norgay, GM born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali Indian Sherpa mountaineer who later settled in India. Among the most famous mountain climbers in history, he was one of the first two individuals to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished...	17 Feb 1980	POL Krzysztof Wielicki Krzysztof Wielicki Krzysztof Wielicki - Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. One of the most outstanding himalaists of the world. He is the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders. On three of them: Mount Everest, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse, he climbed as the first man ever to do so in winter... POL Leszek Cichy Leszek Cichy Leszek Cichy is a Polish mountaineer, geodesist, financier, and entrepreneur. He was born in Pruszków, Poland on November 14, 1951. He is best known for making the first winter ascent of Mount Everest together with Krzysztof Wielicki in 1980 which established the winter ascent record of 8,848 meters...	3684	210	5.70%	37%	4.4%
K2 K2 K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth . With a peak elevation of , K2 is part of the Karakoram range, and is located on the border between the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China and Gilgit, in Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan.K2 is known as the Savage Mountain due to the...	8611 m	Karakoram Karakoram Karakoram is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan , Ladakh , and Xinjiang...	31 Jul 1954	ITA Achille Compagnoni Achille Compagnoni Achille Compagnoni was an Italian mountaineer. Together with Lino Lacedelli, on 31 July 1954 he was the first man to reach the summit of K2.-Biography:... ITA Lino Lacedelli Lino Lacedelli Lino Lacedelli is an Italian mountaineer.-Biography:Lacedelli was born in Cortina d'Ampezzo .Together with Achille Compagnoni, he was the first man to reach the summit of K2 on 31 July 1954...			284	66	23.24%	41%	19.7%
Kangchenjunga Kangchenjunga Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world , with an elevation of 8,586 metres...	8586 m	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India... /India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...	25 May 1955	UK George Band George Band George Christopher Band OBE is a British mountaineer. Having started climbing in the Alps while a student at Queens' College, Cambridge, he was the youngest person on the 1953 Everest expedition where Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first successful ascent of the peak. Two years later,... UK Joe Brown Joe Brown (climber) Joe Brown is an English climber, born the seventh and last child of a family in the Manchester suburb of Ardwick. He became famous for climbing during the 1950s, and was a member of the Valkyrie climbing club and founding member of the Rock and Ice climbing club. An early climbing partner was Don...	11 Jan 1986	POL Krzysztof Wielicki Krzysztof Wielicki Krzysztof Wielicki - Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. One of the most outstanding himalaists of the world. He is the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders. On three of them: Mount Everest, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse, he climbed as the first man ever to do so in winter... POL Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka , born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world....	209	40	21.4%	21%	22%
Lhotse Lhotse Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Everest via the South Col...	8516 m	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India... /China China China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....	18 May 1956	CH Fritz Luchsinger Fritz Luchsinger Fritz Luchsinger was a Swiss mountaineer. Together with Ernst Reiss he made the first ascent of Lhotse , the fourth highest mountain in the world, on 18 May 1956... CH Ernst Reiss Ernst Reiss Ernst Reiss is a swiss mountaineer, who together with Fritz Luchsinger was the first to climb the fourth highest mountain on earth in 1956....	31 Dec 1988	POL Krzysztof Wielicki Krzysztof Wielicki Krzysztof Wielicki - Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. One of the most outstanding himalaists of the world. He is the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders. On three of them: Mount Everest, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse, he climbed as the first man ever to do so in winter...	221	11	3.43%	14%	2%
Makalu Makalu Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world and is located east of Mount Everest, on the border between Nepal and China. One of the eight-thousanders, Makalu is an isolated peak whose shape is a four-sided pyramid.Makalu has two notable subsidiary peaks...	8485 m	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India... /China China China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....	15 May 1955	FRA Jean Couzy Jean Couzy Jean Couzy was a French mountaineer. He studied aeronautical engineering at the École Polytechnique. At age 27, he was a member of Maurice Herzog's 1950 expedition to Annapurna. Prior to this, his usual climbing partner was Marcel Schatz, another member of the expedition... FRA Lionel Terray Lionel Terray Lionel Terray was a French climber who made many first ascents, including Makalu in the Himalaya and Cerro Fitzroy in the Patagonian Andes ....	09 Feb 2009	ITA Simone Moro Simone Moro Simone Moro is an Italian alpinist. He has climbed several 8000m peaks without oxygen but he is not following the goal of climbing all the 8000s... KAZ Dennis Urubko	234	26	11.11%	16%	8.5%
Cho Oyu Cho Oyu Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world. Cho Oyu lies in the Himalayas and is 20 km west of Mount Everest, at the border between China and Nepal...	8188 m	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India... /China China China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....	19 Oct 1954	AUT Joseph Joechler NEP Pasang Dawa Lama AUT Herbert Tichy Herbert Tichy Herbert Tichy was an Austrian author, geologist, journalist and climber.-Biography:In 1933 Tichy travelled with a motorcycle from Austria to India...	12 Feb 1985	POL Maciej Berbeka Maciej Berbeka Maciej Berbeka is a Polish mountaineer.On January 14, 1984, together with Ryszard Gajewski he made the first winter ascent of Manaslu.On February 12, 1985, together with Maciej Pawlikowski he made the first winter ascent of Cho Oyu.... POL Maciej Pawlikowski Maciej Pawlikowski Maciej Pawlikowski is a Polish mountaineer. He is best known for the first winter ascent of Cho Oyu together with Maciej Berbeka on February 12, 1985. He is also the current president of the Zakopane Mountaineering Club.-External links:**... POL Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka , born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world....	2668	39	1.46%
Dhaulagiri Dhaulagiri Dhaulagiri is the seventh highest mountain in the world. It forms the eastern anchor of the Dhaulagiri Himal, a subrange of the Himalaya in the Dhawalagiri Zone of north central Nepal. It lies northwest of Pokhara, an important regional town and tourist center...	8167 m	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...	13 May 1960	AUT Kurt Diemberger Kurt Diemberger Kurt Diemberger is an accomplished Austrian mountaineer and author of several books.-Career:As of 2008, Kurt Diemberger is the only remaining person alive that made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres. In 1957, he made the first ascent of Broad Peak and in 1960, the first ascent... GER Peter Diener NEP Nawang Dorje NEP Nima Dorje CH Ernst Forrer AUT Albin Schelbert	21 Jan 1985	POL Andrzej Czok Andrzej Czok Andrzej Czok was a Polish mountaineer best known for the first winter ascent of Dhaulagiri on January 21, 1985 with Jerzy Kukuczka. He died while making a winter attempt on Kangchenjunga.*... POL Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka , born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world....	358	58	16.20%	31%	11%
Manaslu Manaslu Manaslu is the eighth highest mountain in the world, located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas. Manaslu is derived from the Sanskrit word Manasa and is translated as "Mountain of the Spirit"....	8163 m	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...	09 May 1956	JPN Toshio Imanishi NEP Gyalzen Norbu	14 Jan 1984	POL Maciej Berbeka Maciej Berbeka Maciej Berbeka is a Polish mountaineer.On January 14, 1984, together with Ryszard Gajewski he made the first winter ascent of Manaslu.On February 12, 1985, together with Maciej Pawlikowski he made the first winter ascent of Cho Oyu.... POL Ryszard Gajewski Ryszard Gajewski Ryszard Gajewski is a Polish mountaineer best known for the first winter ascent of Manaslu on January 12, 1984 together with Maciej Berbeka.- Eight-thousanders :* Manaslu with Maciej Berbeka...	297	53	17.85%	35.16%	13.42%
Nanga Parbat Nanga Parbat Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain on Earth. Nanga Parbat means "Naked Mountain" in English, parbat deriving from the Sanskrit word parvata meaning "mountain, rock", and nanga from the Sanskrit word nagna meaning "naked, bare"...	8126 m	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located at the crossroads of South Asia, the Middle East, and Central Asia...	03 Jul 1953	AUT Hermann Buhl Hermann Buhl Hermann Buhl is considered one of the best post-World War II Austrian climbers and one of the best climbers of all time. He was particularly innovative in applying alpine style to Himalayan climbing...			287	64	22.30%	77%	5.5%
Annapurna Annapurna Annapurna is a series of peaks in the Himalayas, a -long massif of which the highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8091m, making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the 14 "eight-thousanders". It is located east of a great gorge cut through the Himalayas by the Kali Gandaki River,...	8091 m	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...	03 Jun 1950	FRA Maurice Herzog Maurice Herzog Maurice Herzog is a French mountaineer and sports administrator who was born in Lyon, France.-Ascent of Annapurna:On June 3, 1950, Maurice Herzog became the first person to climb a peak over 8000m when, in the company of Louis Lachenal, he summited the Himalayan mountain Annapurna, the... FRA Louis Lachenal Louis Lachenal Louis Lachenal , a French climber born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, was one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters. On 3 June 1950, along with Maurice Herzog, he reached the summit of Annapurna I in Nepal at a height of 8,091 m...	03 Feb 1987	POL Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka , born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world.... POL Artur Hajzer Artur Hajzer Artur Hajzer is a Polish mountaineer best known for the first winter ascent of Annapurna on February 3, 1987 together with Jerzy Kukuczka.Artur Hajzer has five main 8000er summits to his name, several via new routes and the first winter climb of Annapurna on Feb. 3, 1987...	153	58	42.85%	66%	19.7%
Gasherbrum I Gasherbrum I Gasherbrum I is the 11th highest peak on Earth, located on the Pakistan-China border. Gasherbrum I is part of the Gasherbrum massif, located in the Karakoram region of the Himalaya...	8080 m	Karakoram Karakoram Karakoram is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan , Ladakh , and Xinjiang...	05 Jul 1958	USA Andrew Kauffman USA Pete Schoening Pete Schoening Peter K. Schoening was an American mountaineer. Schoening was one of two Americans to first successfully climb the Pakistani peak Gasherbrum I in 1958, and was one of the first to summit Mount Vinson in Antarctica in 1966. He was born July 30, 1927, in Seattle, Washington and grew up in that...			265	25	9.43%	15.5%	8.75%
Broad Peak Broad Peak Broad Peak , known locally as Faichan Kangri, is the 12th highest mountain on Earth. The literal translation of "Broad Peak" to Phalchan Kangri is not accepted among the Baltis.- Geography :...	8051 m	Karakoram Karakoram Karakoram is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan , Ladakh , and Xinjiang...	09 Jun 1957	AUT Fritz Wintersteller Fritz Wintersteller Fritz Wintersteller is an Austrian mountaineer who made the first ascent of Broad Peak together with Hermann Buhl, Kurt Diemberger and Marcus Schmuck in 1957.... AUT Marcus Schmuck Marcus Schmuck Marcus Schmuck was an Austrian mountaineer. In 1957, together with Hermann Buhl he organized the expedition, firstly envisaged and initiated by Hermann Buhl, to climb the worlds 12th highest peak, the Broad Peak in the Karakoram in Pakistan. The other members of the expedition were: Fritz... AUT Kurt Diemberger Kurt Diemberger Kurt Diemberger is an accomplished Austrian mountaineer and author of several books.-Career:As of 2008, Kurt Diemberger is the only remaining person alive that made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres. In 1957, he made the first ascent of Broad Peak and in 1960, the first ascent... AUT Hermann Buhl Hermann Buhl Hermann Buhl is considered one of the best post-World War II Austrian climbers and one of the best climbers of all time. He was particularly innovative in applying alpine style to Himalayan climbing...			359	19	5.29%	5%	8.6%
Gasherbrum II Gasherbrum II Gasherbrum II is the 13th highest mountain on Earth, located on the border of Pakistan-China. Gasherbrum II is the third highest peak of the Gasherbrum massif, located in the Karakoram range of the Himalaya....	8034 m	Karakoram Karakoram Karakoram is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan , Ladakh , and Xinjiang...	08 Jul 1956	AUT Fritz Moravec Fritz Moravec Fritz Moravec was an Austrian mountaineer, author and famous alpinist.-Life:He is most famous for the first ascent of Gasherbrum II, the last mountain of the Eight-thousander in the Karakoram that was unclimbed in the 1950s.-Works:Weiße Berge - schwarze Menschen, 1958; Dhaulagiri - Berg ohne... AUT Josef Larch AUT Hans Willenpart			836	19	2.27%	7.8%	0.44%
Shishapangma Shishapangma Shishapangma is the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the eight-thousanders. It was the last 8,000 metre peak to be climbed, due to its location entirely within Tibet and the restrictions on outside visitation to the region imposed by Tibetan and Chinese...	8027 m	China China China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....	02 May 1964	PRC Hsu Ching PRC Chang Chun-yen PRC Wang Fu-zhou PRC Chen San PRC Cheng Tien-liang PRC Wu Tsung-yue PRC Sodnam Doji PRC Migmar Trashi PRC Doji Doji The doji is a commonly found pattern in a candlestick chart of financially traded assets . It is characterized by being small in length -- meaning a small trading range -- with an opening and closing price that are equal. The image below illustrates.- Interpretation :The doji represents indecision... PRC Yonten	14 Jan 2005	POL Piotr Morawski Piotr Morawski Piotr Morawski was a Polish mountaineer. He was best known for making the first successful winter ascent together with Simone Moro of Shisha Pangma on January 14, 2005. Morawski died aged 32 during an international Dhaulagiri/Manaslu expedition in Nepal... ITA Simone Moro Simone Moro Simone Moro is an Italian alpinist. He has climbed several 8000m peaks without oxygen but he is not following the goal of climbing all the 8000s...	274	23	8.39%	2%	16.8%

^* As of September 2003, data from Chinese National Geography
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2006.8, page 77.

Verified climbers who have reached the summit of all 14 eight-thousanders

Field 0₂ lists people who have peaked all 14 without bottled oxygen.

Order accomplished	All without O₂ (order)	Name	Period	born	at age	Nationality
1	1	Reinhold Messner Reinhold Messner Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol, often cited as the greatest mountain climber of all time...	1970-1986	1944	42	Italy Italian
2		Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka Jerzy Kukuczka , born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world....	1979-1987	1948	39	Poland Polish
3	2	Erhard Loretan Erhard Loretan Erhard Loretan is a Swiss mountain climber.He was born in Bulle in the canton of Fribourg. He is trained as a cabinet-maker and mountain guide and began his climbing career at the age of 11....	1982-1995	1959	36	Switzerland Swiss
4		Carlos Carsolio Carlos Carsolio Carlos Carsolio is Mexico's most successful alpinist. He was the fourth person ever to summit all fourteen of the eight-thousanders...	1985-1996	1962	33	Mexico Mexican
5		Krzysztof Wielicki Krzysztof Wielicki Krzysztof Wielicki - Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. One of the most outstanding himalaists of the world. He is the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders. On three of them: Mount Everest, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse, he climbed as the first man ever to do so in winter...	1980-1996	1950	46	Poland Polish
6	3	Juanito Oiarzabal Juanito Oiarzabal Juan Oiarzabal Urteaga, commonly known as Juanito Oiarzabal, is a noted Basque mountaineer and has written four books on the subject...	1985-1999	1956	43	Spain Spanish
7		Sergio Martini	1983-2000	1949	51	Italy Italian
8		Young Seok Park	1993-2001	1963	38	South Korea Korean
9		Hong Gil Um	1988-2001	1960	40	South Korea Korean
10	4	Alberto Iñurrategi	1991-2002	1968	33	Spain Spanish
11		Wang Yong Han	1994-2003	1966	37	South Korea Korean
12	5	Ed Viesturs Ed Viesturs Ed Viesturs is one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He is one of only 18 people to have climbed all eight-thousander peaks.-Early life:...	1989-2005	1959	46	USA American
13	6	Silvio Mondinelli	1993-2007	1958	49	Italy Italian
14	7	Ivan Vallejo Ivan Vallejo Iván Vallejo Ricaurte is a mountaineer from Ecuador. On May 1, 2008, he finished his "Desafio 14" – a personal quest for reaching the summit of all 14 mountains above 8,000 m , without the use of supplemental oxygen....	1997-2008	1959	49	Ecuador Ecuador
15	8	Denis Urubko	2000-2009	1973	35	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
16		Ralf Dujmovits	1990-2009	1961	47	Germany German
17	9	Veikka Gustafsson Veikka Gustafsson Eero Veikka Juhani Gustafsson, known as Veikka Gustafsson is a famous Finnish mountaineer.He was born in Espoo and he has three siblings, Elina, Erkki and Esa...	1993-2009	1968	41	Finland Finnish
18	10	Andrew Lock Andrew Lock Andrew Lock is Australia’s most accomplished high altitude mountaineer. He completed his personal mountaineering project is to be the first Australian to climb all fourteen "eight-thousanders" in October 2009. In all he has climbed all 14 8000m peaks, with 18 personal 8000 meter summits, having...	1993-2009	1961	48	Australia Australian

Disputed

Disputes occur when not enough evidence was provided to claim the climb up to the highest peak.

Name	Period	born	at age	Nationality
Alan Hinkes Alan Hinkes Alan Hinkes OBE is an English mountaineer from Northallerton in North Yorkshire. Hinkes claims to be the first British mountaineer to have summited all 14 mountains with elevations greater than 8000 metres, the so-called Eight-thousanders; however, this claim is disputed .He was awarded an... (Cho Oyu 1990)	1987-2005	1954	53	United Kingdom British
Fausto De Stefani (Lhotse 1997)	1983-1998	1952	46	Italy Italy
Vladislav Terzyul Vladislav Terzyul Vladislav Terzyul , born in Artyom, Siberia, was one of the world's premier high-altitude climber.He is said to be one of the few people to have climbed all eight-thousander peaks and the first Ukrainian ever, but the goal is disputed.Vladislav Terzyul died descending from the summit of Makalu on...	1993-2002(died)	1953	49	Ukraine Ukrainian

Climbers and 8000 peaks (As of August 7, 2009)

Source: Climbers with 10 to 14 MAIN 8000ers in www.8000ers.com
at http://www.8000ers.com/cms/download.html?func=startdown&id=141

13 Fausto De Stefani (ITA)

13 Abele Blanc (ITA)

13 Christian Kuntner (ITA)

13 Alan Hinkes
Alan Hinkes
Alan Hinkes OBE is an English mountaineer from Northallerton in North Yorkshire. Hinkes claims to be the first British mountaineer to have summited all 14 mountains with elevations greater than 8000 metres, the so-called Eight-thousanders; however, this claim is disputed .He was awarded an...

(UK)

13 Norbert Joos (SUI)

13 Piotr Pustelnik (POL)

13 Bianba Zaxi (CHN)

13 Cering Doje (CHN)

13 Luoze (CHN)

13 João Garcia
João Garcia
João José Silva Abranches Garcia, is a leading mountaineer in Portugal. His main professional activities are as organizer and guide in mountaineering expeditions. On May 18th, 1999, he became the first Portuguese man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, without the use of supplementary oxygen...

(POR)

13 Oh Eun-Sun
Oh Eun-Sun
Oh Eun-Sun is a South Korean female mountaineer. She was the first Korean female to climb the Seven Summits and is aiming to climb all fourteen of the eight-thousanders. On August 3, 2009, Oh reached the summit of Gasherbrum I, her thirteenth peak of the eight-thousanders...

(KOR), female

12 Hans Kammerlander (ITA)

12 Félix Iñurrategi (ESP)--summited Gasherbrum II but died on descent

12 Vladislav Terzyul
Vladislav Terzyul
Vladislav Terzyul , born in Artyom, Siberia, was one of the world's premier high-altitude climber.He is said to be one of the few people to have climbed all eight-thousander peaks and the first Ukrainian ever, but the goal is disputed.Vladislav Terzyul died descending from the summit of Makalu on...

(UKR)--summited Makalu but died on descent

12 Rena
Rena
Rena may refer to:Locations:*Rena, Badajoz, a municipality in Badajoz, Spain*Rena, Norway, a town in NorwayPeople:*Rena Mero, a former WWE Diva and one of the stars of its "Attitude Era," better known by her ring name, Sable*Rena J...

(CHN)

12 Serguey Bogomolov (RUS)

12 Iñaki Ochoa de Olza
Iñaki Ochoa de Olza
Iñaki Ochoa de Olza was a Spanish mountaineer, alpinist and climber. Ochoa de Olza had taken part in over thirty separate climbing expeditions in the Himalaya Mountains over the course of his career. His records included climbing 12 of 14 of the world's tallest mountains without the aid of oxygen...

(ESP)

12 Maxut Zhumayev (KAZ)

12 Vassili Pivtsov (KAZ)

12 Edurne Pasaban
Edurne Pasaban
Edurne Pasaban is a Spanish mountaineer. She was the third woman, after Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and Nives Meroi, who has climbed eleven of the fourteen eight-thousanders.On May 18, 2009, she added Kangchenjunga to her record, becoming the first woman who has climbed 12...

(ESP), female

12 Hirotaka Takeuchi (JPN)

12 Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is an Austrian mountaineer. In summer 2007, she married her mountaineering partner Ralf Dujmovits and lives in the Black Forest ....

(AUT), female

11 Jean-Christophe Lafaille
Jean-Christophe Lafaille
Jean-Christophe Lafaille was a French mountaineer noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as "perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya", when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a...

(FRA)

11 Nives Meroi
Nives Meroi
Nives Meroi is one of the most successful women in mountaineering on giant heights. She has been married since 1989 to Romano Benet, a climber and her partner in Himalayan mountaineering. They live in Tarvisio in the alps in northern Italy.In October 2008, she succeeded in summiting eleven of the...

(ITA), female

11 Romano Benet (ITA)

11 Serap Jangbu Sherpa (NEP)

11 Go Mi-Sun sometimes spelled Ko Mi Young (KOR), female--summited Nanga Parbat but died on descent

10 Viktor Groselj (SLO)

10 Benoit Chamoux
Benoît Chamoux
Benoît Chamoux was a French Alpinist born in La Roche-sur-Foron near Mont Blanc in the department of Haute-Savoie, France on February 19th, 1961...

(FRA)

10 Oh Hee-Jun (KOR)

10 Mario Panzeri (ITA)

10 Kim Jae-Soo (KOR)

Eight-thousander

List of eight-thousanders

Verified climbers who have reached the summit of all 14 eight-thousanders

Disputed

Climbers and 8000 peaks (As of August 7, 2009)

See also

External links