See Mount Everest, the world's highest peak at 8,848 meters, located in Nepal
Trek Himalayan trails, prayer-flag passes, and courtyard temples of Nepal
Trek to Everest Base Camp at 5,364m in the Nepalese Himalayas
Summit the world's highest peak (8,848m) in Nepal - the ultimate mountaineering challenge
Yuichiro Miura skis eight thousand feet down the Lhotse Face on a parachute, and does not entirely stop.
Every mountain on Earth above 8,000 metres; fewer than fifty people have done it.
Nimsdai Purja climbs all fourteen 8,000ers in six months.
Three climbers on the Shark's Fin of Meru in the Himalayas; Jimmy Chin before Free Solo.
Tintin searches the Himalayas for Chang after a plane crash; Herge's own favourite, without a villain.
Peter Matthiessen walks to Dolpo with a zoologist looking for a cat he never sees.
Krakauer on the 1996 Everest disaster he survived.
Kyrat, Pagan Min and elephants; the Himalayan Far Cry.
Nathan Drake on a train hanging off a Himalayan cliff; Naughty Dog's blockbuster.
The Killer Mountain: 8,126 m, with the Rupal Face, the biggest mountain wall on Earth.
At 8,035 m the most approachable of the Karakoram giants, first climbed in 1956.
The friendliest eight-thousander at 8,188 m, and most climbers’ first.
The Fish Tail, sacred to Shiva and closed to climbers — nobody has stood on the summit.
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 third-highest mountain on Earth, sacred enough that climbers stop a few metres below the true summit.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, in 1950 — and still the deadliest of the fourteen.
Everest's neighbour at 8,516 m, sharing the Khumbu Icefall and the South Col before splitting away.
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 most beautiful mountain in the Khumbu — a hanging glacier like a pendant on its ridge.
The Mountain of the Spirit, 8,163 m, now the busiest eight-thousander after Everest.
Twelve kilometres from K2 at 8,051 m, with a long summit ridge that has cost several lives.
Hidden Peak, 8,080 m, buried so deep in the Karakoram it cannot be seen from any inhabited place.
The base for K2 and the Baltoro expeditions, cold desert dunes and Shangrila lake.
Tea gardens, the toy train and Kangchenjunga at sunrise from Tiger Hill.
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