The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.
The White Mountain, 8,167 m, thought to be the highest in the world for thirty years after 1808.
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.
The Savage Mountain: 8,611 m, harder and deadlier than Everest, with no easy route to the top.
The third-highest mountain on Earth, sacred enough that climbers stop a few metres below the true summit.
A granite needle capped with rime ice, one of the hardest summits on Earth to reach.
The lowest of the fourteen at 8,027 m, and the only one entirely inside Tibet.
Africa's third-highest peak, glaciated and on the equator, at the top of the Rwenzori.
The Maasai Mountain of God, the only volcano on Earth erupting cold black carbonatite lava.
Hidden Peak, 8,080 m, buried so deep in the Karakoram it cannot be seen from any inhabited place.
The Mountain of the Spirit, 8,163 m, now the busiest eight-thousander after Everest.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, in 1950 — and still the deadliest of the fourteen.
The most accessible 6,000 m peak in the world, two days from La Paz.
The Killer Mountain: 8,126 m, with the Rupal Face, the biggest mountain wall on Earth.
The Matterhorn of the Caucasus: twin granite horns above Svaneti and one of the hardest climbs in the range.
A near-perfect four-sided pyramid of 8,485 m, one of the hardest of the fourteen.
World-famous wall dive of sharks.
Climb the iconic volcanic spire.
Climb the dormant volcano crater.
Climb an active island volcano.
The world's most accessible active volcano.
The original vine-bungee land diving.
A world-class kitesurfing lagoon.
One of the world's great mountain roads.
Dive the sunken nuclear-test fleet.
Historic jungle trail across the ranges.
Cross one of the Sahara's emptiest expanses.
4x4 climb to the "roof of Africa".
A cable-secured ridge path along the Three Sisters with the whole Rhine valley falling away below.
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