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.
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 High Tatras' highest point at 2,655 m, climbable only with a mountain guide.
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.
A near-perfect four-sided pyramid of 8,485 m, one of the hardest of the fourteen.
The Matterhorn of the Caucasus: twin granite horns above Svaneti and one of the hardest climbs in the range.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, in 1950 — and still the deadliest of the fourteen.
Hidden Peak, 8,080 m, buried so deep in the Karakoram it cannot be seen from any inhabited place.
Not the highest mountain, but its summit is the furthest point from the centre of the Earth.
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.
Basalt peak above the lagoon where runaway slaves hid, now a UNESCO site with a steep, rewarding summit trail.
Granite massif rising from the plains.
Active volcano with a huge summit crater.
Dramatic gorge with via ferrata.
Climb to a glowing summit lava lake.
West Africa's highest active volcano.
The Caribbean’s highest peak at 3,098 m, a two-day trek with mules through pine forest to a summit above the clouds.
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