The High Tatras' highest point at 2,655 m, climbable only with a mountain guide.
A near-perfect four-sided pyramid of 8,485 m, one of the hardest of the fourteen.
Hidden Peak, 8,080 m, buried so deep in the Karakoram it cannot be seen from any inhabited place.
The northern end of the Appalachian Trail, with the knife-edge ridge to the summit.
The most beautiful mountain in the Khumbu — a hanging glacier like a pendant on its ridge.
A granite needle capped with rime ice, one of the hardest summits on Earth to reach.
A 4,562 m volcano through giraffe country, and the best acclimatisation walk before Kilimanjaro.
A 4,199 m granite summit above Jackson Hole, the classic American alpine climb.
The highest peak in the Balkans at 2,925 m, a long walk up from the Rila lakes.
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 friendliest eight-thousander at 8,188 m, and most climbers’ first.
Sweden's highest mountain, whose glaciated south peak shrinks a little every summer.
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 most accessible 6,000 m peak in the world, two days from La Paz.
Climb the dormant volcano crater.
Climb the iconic volcanic spire.
Climb an active island volcano.
Escarpment forest above the desert.
Near-perfect volcanic cone rising from the sea, ringed by rainforest.
The world's most accessible active volcano.
Turquoise lakes among sharp peaks.
A 3,938-metre glaciated peak on the Caucasus crest, the highest point of South Ossetia.
Timor's highest peak, climbed for sunrise.
Hike across the jungle interior.
Togo’s highest peak at 986 m, a day hike through coffee and cocoa villages to views into Ghana.
Sacred volcano and crater lake.
Basalt peak above the lagoon where runaway slaves hid, now a UNESCO site with a steep, rewarding summit trail.
Climb the highest peak on Bioko.
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