The Matterhorn of the Caucasus: twin granite horns above Svaneti and one of the hardest climbs in the range.
A 5,033 m glaciated volcano above the Gergeti church, where Prometheus was said to be chained.
A 5,137 m volcano rising alone from the plain, the traditional landing place of the Ark.
England's highest point at 978 m, one leg of the National Three Peaks Challenge.
The second-highest hill in Britain, on the Cairngorm plateau — and home of the Big Grey Man legend.
Sweden's highest mountain, whose glaciated south peak shrinks a little every summer.
Northern Europe’s highest peak at 2,469 m, crossed by a glacier on the normal route.
Romania's summit at 2,544 m, on the Fagaras ridge above the Transfagarasan road.
The highest peak in the Balkans at 2,925 m, a long walk up from the Rila lakes.
The High Tatras' highest point at 2,655 m, climbable only with a mountain guide.
A broad glaciated 3,657 m summit, the classic first big glacier climb in the Eastern Alps.
The Queen of the Dolomites and the last glacier in the range, with a wartime tunnel museum inside it.
Germany's roof at 2,962 m, reachable by cable car, cog railway or a long day up the Hollental.
Austria's highest peak at 3,798 m, a sharp black horn above the country's longest glacier.
The second-highest massif in the Alps, with ten summits above 4,000 m in one skyline.
The Maiden of the Bernese Oberland, with Europe’s highest railway station on its shoulder.
The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.
The Fish Tail, sacred to Shiva and closed to climbers — nobody has stood on the summit.
The most beautiful mountain in the Khumbu — a hanging glacier like a pendant on its ridge.
The lowest of the fourteen at 8,027 m, and the only one entirely inside Tibet.
At 8,035 m the most approachable of the Karakoram giants, first climbed in 1956.
Twelve kilometres from K2 at 8,051 m, with a long summit ridge that has cost several lives.
Hidden Peak, 8,080 m, buried so deep in the Karakoram it cannot be seen from any inhabited place.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, in 1950 — and still the deadliest of the fourteen.
The Killer Mountain: 8,126 m, with the Rupal Face, the biggest mountain wall on Earth.
The Mountain of the Spirit, 8,163 m, now the busiest eight-thousander after Everest.
The White Mountain, 8,167 m, thought to be the highest in the world for thirty years after 1808.
The friendliest eight-thousander at 8,188 m, and most climbers’ first.
A near-perfect four-sided pyramid of 8,485 m, one of the hardest of the fourteen.
Everest's neighbour at 8,516 m, sharing the Khumbu Icefall and the South Col before splitting away.
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