MOUNTAIN	HEIGHT	COUNTRY	FIRST ASCENDER	YEAR
Everest	8,848	Nepal/Tibet	Edmund Hillary  Tenzing Norgay	1953
K2	8,611	Pakistan/China	Achille Compagnoni  Lino Lacedelli	1954
Kangchenjunga	8,586	India/Nepal	George Band  Joe Brown  Tony Streather  Norman Hardie	1955
Lhotse	8,516	Nepal/Tibet	Fritz Luchsinger  Ernest Reiss	1956
Makalu	8,463	Nepal/Tibet	Jean Couzy  Lionel Terray  Jean Franco  Guido Magnone  Jean Bouvier  Serge Coupé  Pierre Leroux  André Vialatte  Gyalzen Norbu	1955
Cho Oyu	8,201	Nepal/Tibet	Herbert Tichy  Sepp Jöchler  Pasang Dawa Lama	1954
Dhaulagiri	8,167	Nepal	Kurt Dimberger  Peter Diener  Ernest Forrer  Albin Scelbert  Michel Vaucher  Hugo Weber  Nawang Dorje  Nyama Dorje	1960
Manaslu	8,163	Nepal	Toshio Imanishi  Kiishiro Kato  Minoru Higeta  Gyalazen Norbu	1956
Nanga Parbat	8,125	Pakistan	Hermann Buhl	1953
Annapurna	8,091	Nepal	Maurice Herzog  Louis Lachenal	1950
Gasherbrum I	8,068	Pakistan/China	Anderw Kauffmann  Pete Schoening	1958
Broad Peak	8,047	Pakistan/China	Kurt Diemberger  Hermann Buhl  Markus Schmock  Fritz Wintersteller	1957
Shisha  Pangma	8,046	Tibet	10 climbers from  Tibet / China	1964
Gasherbrum II	8,035	Pakistan/China	Sepp Larch  Fritz Moravel  Hans Willenpart	1956
OTHER MOUNTAINS
Aconcagua	6,959	Argentina	Mathias Zurbriggen	1897
McKinley	6,194	Alaska	Harry Karstens  Robert Tatum  Walter Harper	1913
Kilimanjaro	5,895	Tanzania	Hans Meyer  Ludwig Purtscheller	1889
El'brus	5,633	Russia	Akia Sottaev*  Douglas Freshfield  *(Reached the  summit at the age of  86, doubted first  ascent)	1868
Agri (Ararat)	5,137	Turkey	J.von Parrot  (Bozkurt Ergor, first  winter ascent in  1970)	1829
Mount Vinson	4,897	Antarctica	Nick Clinch  with friends.	1966
Carstenz  Pyramid	4,884	New Guinea	Heinrich Harrier  Phil Temple  Kippax  Huizenger	1962
Mount Blanc	4,807	France	Michel Paccard  Jaques Balmat	1786
Matterhorn	4,478	Switzerland	Edward Whymper  Peter Taugwalder  (father)  Peter Taugwalder  (son)  Charles Hudson*  Francis Douglas*  Douglas Hadow*  Michel Croz*  *(killed during  descent)	1865
Mt. Cook	3,764	NewZeeland	G. Graham  T. Fyfe  J. Clark	1894
FitzRoy	3,405	Argentina	Lionel Terray  Guido Magnone	1952
Cerro Torre	3,102	Argentina	Cesare Maestri  Toni Egger*  *(killed during  descent)  Doubted first ascent.	1959
Glittertind	2,470	Norway	Harald Nicolai Storm-  Wergeland  Hans Sletten	1841
Galdhøpiggen	2,469	Norway	L. Arnesen  S. Flotten  Steinar Sulheim	1850
Kebnekaise	2,117	Sweden	Charles Rabot  with local carriers	1882
Sarektjåkkå	2,089	Sweden	G.W. Bucht  with local carriers	1879

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