The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, in 1950 — and still the deadliest of the fourteen.
Basalt peak above the lagoon where runaway slaves hid, now a UNESCO site with a steep, rewarding summit trail.
Sacred rock outcrop over Abeokuta.
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