Three climbers on the Shark's Fin of Meru in the Himalayas; Jimmy Chin before Free Solo.
Marc-Andre Leclerc solos alpine faces nobody films, until they do.
Krakauer on the 1996 Everest disaster he survived.
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.
Twelve kilometres from K2 at 8,051 m, with a long summit ridge that has cost several lives.
The most accessible 6,000 m peak in the world, two days from La Paz.
The Maasai Mountain of God, the only volcano on Earth erupting cold black carbonatite lava.
Africa's third-highest peak, glaciated and on the equator, at the top of the Rwenzori.
A granite needle capped with rime ice, one of the hardest summits on Earth to reach.
Ethiopia's highest peak at 4,550 m, the end point of the Simien Mountains trek.
A 4,562 m volcano through giraffe country, and the best acclimatisation walk before Kilimanjaro.
An ice-covered cone with a lava lake in the crater, climbed on crampons and descended on a sledge.
A 4,199 m granite summit above Jackson Hole, the classic American alpine climb.
The White Mountain, 8,167 m, thought to be the highest in the world for thirty years after 1808.
The Killer Mountain: 8,126 m, with the Rupal Face, the biggest mountain wall on Earth.
Everest's neighbour at 8,516 m, sharing the Khumbu Icefall and the South Col before splitting away.
Oregon’s glaciated volcano, climbed at 2 a.m. so the snow bridges are still frozen.
A 5,137 m volcano rising alone from the plain, the traditional landing place of the Ark.
The Savage Mountain: 8,611 m, harder and deadlier than Everest, with no easy route to the top.
The lowest of the fourteen at 8,027 m, and the only one entirely inside Tibet.
The Mountain of the Spirit, 8,163 m, now the busiest eight-thousander after Everest.
Austria's highest peak at 3,798 m, a sharp black horn above the country's longest glacier.
The Maiden of the Bernese Oberland, with Europe’s highest railway station on its shoulder.
The second-highest massif in the Alps, with ten summits above 4,000 m in one skyline.
The third-highest mountain on Earth, sacred enough that climbers stop a few metres below the true summit.
At 8,035 m the most approachable of the Karakoram giants, first climbed in 1956.
The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.
The friendliest eight-thousander at 8,188 m, and most climbers’ first.
A 5,033 m glaciated volcano above the Gergeti church, where Prometheus was said to be chained.
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