Not the highest mountain, but its summit is the furthest point from the centre of the Earth.
Walk the crater rim of the volcano that buried Pompeii, with the Bay of Naples below.
Austria's highest peak at 3,798 m, a sharp black horn above the country's longest glacier.
Everest's neighbour at 8,516 m, sharing the Khumbu Icefall and the South Col before splitting away.
The most accessible 6,000 m peak in the world, two days from La Paz.
Twelve kilometres from K2 at 8,051 m, with a long summit ridge that has cost several lives.
The second-highest hill in Britain, on the Cairngorm plateau — and home of the Big Grey Man legend.
A 5,033 m glaciated volcano above the Gergeti church, where Prometheus was said to be chained.
An ice-covered cone with a lava lake in the crater, climbed on crampons and descended on a sledge.
The highest peak in the Balkans at 2,925 m, a long walk up from the Rila lakes.
The most beautiful mountain in the Khumbu — a hanging glacier like a pendant on its ridge.
Hidden Peak, 8,080 m, buried so deep in the Karakoram it cannot be seen from any inhabited place.
The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean has erupted every twenty minutes for two thousand years.
The Killer Mountain: 8,126 m, with the Rupal Face, the biggest mountain wall on Earth.
Europe’s most active volcano, guided to 3,300 m past steaming vents and last year’s lava.
A near-perfect four-sided pyramid of 8,485 m, one of the hardest of the fourteen.
Ethiopia's highest peak at 4,550 m, the end point of the Simien Mountains trek.
Spain’s highest point, permit-only for the last stretch, with the peak’s shadow thrown across the Atlantic at dawn.
The Philippines' highest peak, a 2,954 m volcano with boulder fields and a summit lake.
The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, in 1950 — and still the deadliest of the fourteen.
The Mountain of the Spirit, 8,163 m, now the busiest eight-thousander after Everest.
Oregon’s glaciated volcano, climbed at 2 a.m. so the snow bridges are still frozen.
Twin volcanic peaks, UNESCO-listed.
Dramatic volcanic needle in the jungle.
Climb the iconic volcanic spire.
Climb the dormant volcano crater.
Climb an active island volcano.
Hike across the jungle interior.
Near-perfect volcanic cone rising from the sea, ringed by rainforest.
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