The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean has erupted every twenty minutes for two thousand years.
The most beautiful mountain in the Khumbu — a hanging glacier like a pendant on its ridge.
Sweden's highest mountain, whose glaciated south peak shrinks a little every summer.
South Korea's highest mountain, a shield volcano with a crater lake at the centre of Jeju.
The Matterhorn of the Caucasus: twin granite horns above Svaneti and one of the hardest climbs in the range.
The most accessible 6,000 m peak in the world, two days from La Paz.
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 cone on the Taranaki coast, so symmetrical it stood in for Mount Fuji on film.
Spain’s highest point, permit-only for the last stretch, with the peak’s shadow thrown across the Atlantic at dawn.
A 4,199 m granite summit above Jackson Hole, the classic American alpine climb.
At 8,035 m the most approachable of the Karakoram giants, first climbed in 1956.
A 4,562 m volcano through giraffe country, and the best acclimatisation walk before Kilimanjaro.
A granite needle capped with rime ice, one of the hardest summits on Earth to reach.
A 5,137 m volcano rising alone from the plain, the traditional landing place of the Ark.
The Maasai Mountain of God, the only volcano on Earth erupting cold black carbonatite lava.
Ethiopia's highest peak at 4,550 m, the end point of the Simien Mountains trek.
Germany's roof at 2,962 m, reachable by cable car, cog railway or a long day up the Hollental.
The northern end of the Appalachian Trail, with the knife-edge ridge to the summit.
East Asia’s highest peak outside the Himalaya at 3,952 m, permit-only and worth the paperwork.
The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.
An ice-covered cone with a lava lake in the crater, climbed on crampons and descended on a sledge.
The White Mountain, 8,167 m, thought to be the highest in the world for thirty years after 1808.
A 5,033 m glaciated volcano above the Gergeti church, where Prometheus was said to be chained.
The second-highest hill in Britain, on the Cairngorm plateau — and home of the Big Grey Man legend.
The highest peak in the Balkans at 2,925 m, a long walk up from the Rila lakes.
Oregon’s glaciated volcano, climbed at 2 a.m. so the snow bridges are still frozen.
The second-highest massif in the Alps, with ten summits above 4,000 m in one skyline.
The Roof of Indochina at 3,147 m — two days on foot, or twenty minutes by cable car.
The skyline that became the Patagonia logo, an easy day walk from El Chalten to the lagoon below it.
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