Summit the world's highest peak (8,848m) in Nepal - the ultimate mountaineering challenge
Every mountain on Earth above 8,000 metres; fewer than fifty people have done it.
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 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.
Everest's neighbour at 8,516 m, sharing the Khumbu Icefall and the South Col before splitting away.
The friendliest eight-thousander at 8,188 m, and most climbers’ first.
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.
A near-perfect four-sided pyramid of 8,485 m, one of the hardest of the fourteen.
The White Mountain, 8,167 m, thought to be the highest in the world for thirty years after 1808.
The Mountain of the Spirit, 8,163 m, now the busiest eight-thousander after Everest.
The Killer Mountain: 8,126 m, with the Rupal Face, the biggest mountain wall on Earth.
Twelve kilometres from K2 at 8,051 m, with a long summit ridge that has cost several lives.
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