An ice-covered cone with a lava lake in the crater, climbed on crampons and descended on a sledge.
The High Tatras' highest point at 2,655 m, climbable only with a mountain guide.
The northern end of the Appalachian Trail, with the knife-edge ridge to the summit.
Oregon’s glaciated volcano, climbed at 2 a.m. so the snow bridges are still frozen.
The Killer Mountain: 8,126 m, with the Rupal Face, the biggest mountain wall on Earth.
The Mountain of the Spirit, 8,163 m, now the busiest eight-thousander after Everest.
The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean has erupted every twenty minutes for two thousand years.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, in 1950 — and still the deadliest of the fourteen.
A 5,137 m volcano rising alone from the plain, the traditional landing place of the Ark.
A near-perfect cone on the Taranaki coast, so symmetrical it stood in for Mount Fuji on film.
Sweden's highest mountain, whose glaciated south peak shrinks a little every summer.
Spain’s highest point, permit-only for the last stretch, with the peak’s shadow thrown across the Atlantic at dawn.
The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.
The Matterhorn of the Caucasus: twin granite horns above Svaneti and one of the hardest climbs in the range.
The Philippines' highest peak, a 2,954 m volcano with boulder fields and a summit lake.
A three-day trek to a 3,726 m crater rim above a crescent lake with a new cone growing in it.
At 8,035 m the most approachable of the Karakoram giants, first climbed in 1956.
The Maasai Mountain of God, the only volcano on Earth erupting cold black carbonatite lava.
The highest peak in the Balkans at 2,925 m, a long walk up from the Rila lakes.
A near-perfect four-sided pyramid of 8,485 m, one of the hardest of the fourteen.
The third-highest mountain on Earth, sacred enough that climbers stop a few metres below the true summit.
A 5,033 m glaciated volcano above the Gergeti church, where Prometheus was said to be chained.
South Korea's highest mountain, a shield volcano with a crater lake at the centre of Jeju.
Everest's neighbour at 8,516 m, sharing the Khumbu Icefall and the South Col before splitting away.
The second-highest hill in Britain, on the Cairngorm plateau — and home of the Big Grey Man legend.
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.
Northern Europe’s highest peak at 2,469 m, crossed by a glacier on the normal route.
A broad glaciated 3,657 m summit, the classic first big glacier climb in the Eastern Alps.
The highest and longest cable car in the world, up to 4,765 metres in the Andes.
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