Eight-thousander

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Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Makalu and Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station.

The eight-thousanders are the fourteen mountains on Earth that are higher than 8,000 metres (26,427 feet) measured from sea level. 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 2005, a total of thirteen people have done the same.

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List of eight-thousanders

Peak	Height	Location	First Ascent	First ascensionist(s)
Everest	8850 m	China/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	May 2, 1964	Ten climbers led by Hsu Ching

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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
12	Ed Viesturs	1989-2005	American
13	Alan Hinkes	1987-2005	British