| Mountain |
Height (m) |
Continent/Country |
First Climbers/Year |
| Mt. Everest |
8,850 |
Asia - Nepal/Tibet |
Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, 1953 |
K2
(Mt. Godwin)
|
8,611 |
Asia - China/Pakistan |
Achille Compagnoni,
Lino Lacedelli
(Italian expedition, 1954) |
| Kanchenjunga |
8,586 |
Asia - Nepal |
George Band, Joe Brown
(British expedition, 1955) |
| Lhotse |
8,516 |
Asia - China/Nepal |
Ernst Reiss,
Fritz Luchsinger
(Swiss team, 1956) |
| Makalu |
8,462 |
Asia - Nepal/Tibet |
J. Franco's French Expedition, 1955
|
| Cho Oyu |
8,201 |
Asia - Nepal/Tibet |
Herbert Tichy,
Joseph Joechler,
Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama
(Austrian expedition, 1954)
|
| Dhaulagiri |
8,167 |
Asia - Nepal |
Kurt Diemberger,
P. Diener,
E. Forrer,
A. Schelbert,
Nyima Dorji,
Nawang Dorji
(Swiss/Austrian expedition, 1960)
|
| Manaslu |
8,156 |
Asia - Nepal |
T. Imanishi,
Gyalzen Norbu
(Japanese expedition, 1956)
|
| Nanga Parbat |
8,125 |
Asia - Pakistan |
Herman Buhl, 1953
|
| Annapurna |
8,091 |
Asia - Nepal |
Maurice Herzog, Louis Lachenal
(French expedition, 1950)
|
