The eight-thousanders are the fourteen mountains on Earth that are higher than 8,000 metres (26,427 feet). They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia.
The first person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders was Reinhold Messner. He completed this task on October 16 1986. One year later, in 1987, Jerzy Kukuczka was the second man to do so, and as of 2003, a total of eleven people have done the same.
List of eight-thousanders
| Peak |
Height |
Location |
First Ascent |
First ascensionist(s) |
|
Everest
|
8850 m |
China(Tibet)/Nepal
|
May 29, 1953
|
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
|
|
K2
|
8611 m |
China/Pakistan
|
July 31, 1954
|
Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli
|
|
Kanchenjunga
|
8586 m |
India/Nepal
|
May 25, 1955
|
George Band and Joe Brown
|
|
Lhotse
|
8516 m |
China/Nepal
|
May 18, 1956
|
Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss |
|
Makalu
|
8463 m |
China/Nepal
|
May 15, 1955
|
Jean Couzy and Lionel Terray
|
|
Cho Oyu
|
8201 m |
China/Nepal
|
October 19, 1954
|
Joseph Joechler , Pasang Dawa Lama , and Herbert Tichy
|
|
Dhaulagiri
|
8167 m |
Nepal
|
May 13, 1960
|
Kurt Diemberger, Peter Diener , Nawang Dorje , Nima Dorje , Ernst Forrer , and Albin Schelbert
|
|
Manaslu
|
8163 m |
Nepal
|
May 9, 1956
|
Toshia Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu |
|
Nanga Parbat
|
8126 m |
Pakistan
|
July 3, 1953
|
Hermann Buhl
|
|
Annapurna
|
8091 m |
Nepal
|
June 3, 1950
|
Maurice Herzog, Louis Lachenal
|
|
Gasherbrum I
|
8068 m |
China/Pakistan
|
July 5, 1958
|
Andrew Kauffman , Peter Schoening |
|
Broad Peak
|
8047 m |
China/Pakistan
|
June 9, 1957
|
Hermann Buhl, Kurt Diemberger, Marcus Schmuck , and Fritz Wintersteller
|
|
Gasherbrum II
|
8035 m |
China/Pakistan
|
July 8, 1956
|
Josef Larch , Fritz Moravec , Hans Willenpart |
|
Shishapangma
|
8027 m |
China(Tibet)
|
May 2, 1964
|
Ten climbers led by Hsu Ching |
Climbers that have reached the summit of all eight-thousanders
|
Name |
Year |
Nationality |
| 1 |
Reinhold Messner
|
1970-1986 |
Italian |
| 2 |
Jerzy Kukuczka
|
1979-1987 |
Polish |
| 3 |
Erhard Loretan |
1982-1995 |
Swiss |
| 4 |
Carlos Carsolio |
1985-1996 |
Mexican |
| 5 |
Krzysztof Wielicki
|
1980-1996 |
Polish |
| 6 |
Juanito Oiarzabal |
1985-1999 |
Spanish |
| 7 |
Sergio Martini |
1976-2000 |
Italian |
| 8 |
Park Young Seok |
1993-2000 |
Korean |
| 9 |
Hong-Gil Um |
1993-2001 |
Korean |
| 10 |
Alberto Inurrategi |
1991-2002 |
Spanish |
| 11 |
Hang Wang Yong |
?-2003 |
Korean |
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