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Makalu is the world's fifth-highest mountain at 8,481 meters (27,825 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest on the China–Nepal border. As of December 2024, there had been 800 successful summits of Makalu and 50 deaths on the mountain. [1]
Locations of the world's 14 eight-thousanders, which are split between the Himalayan (right), and the Karakoram mountain ranges (left). The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains recognized by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) as being more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) in height above sea level, and sufficiently independent of neighbouring peaks.
A second woman hoping to be the first American female climber to scale all of the world's 8,000-metre (26,246 feet) mountains has been declared dead on a remote peak in Tibet, according to her family.
Nelson was the first woman to climb two 8,000-meter peaks — Everest and Lhotse — in the span of 24 hours. She and Morrison were also the first to ski down Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest ...
Mingote was attempting to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter-high mountains in 1,000 days. Experienced Spanish mountaineer Sergi Mingote died Saturday while attempting to summit K2, the ...
Anna Gutu [a] (1990 or 1991 – October 7, 2023) was a Ukrainian-American climber and high-altitude mountaineer. She is known for her pursuit to become the first American woman, and the third overall American climber, to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders (which are peaks above 8,000 meters in elevation).
Carlos Soria Fontán (born 1939) Spain, the only mountaineer to have ascended nine mountains of more than 8,000 meters after turning 60 years old; Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru (born 2001) India. William Grant Stairs (1863–1892) Canada, first non-African to climb in the Ruwenzoris; Allen Steck (1926–2023) US, mountaineer and rock climber
Throughout his career, Stitzinger summited 10 8,000-meter peaks, some of these multiple times. [2] He became known for his ski descents, including a number of first descents of the world's tallest mountains.