Eight Thousanders - Pendaki Awal

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The Fourteen Eight-Thousanders (by height);

1). Mount Everest: 8,848 meters (1953 Hillary & Tenzing Norgay).

2). K2: 8,611 meters (1954 Lacedelli & Compagnoni).

3). Kangchenjunga: 8,586 meters (1955 Band & Brown).

4). Lhotse: 8,516 meters (1956 Luchsinger & Reiss).

5). Makalu: 8,485 meters (1955 Couzy & Terray).

6). Cho Oyu: 8,188 meters (1954 Tichy, Jöchler, Pasang Dawa Lama).

7). Dhaulagiri I: 8,167 meters (1960 Swiss-Austrian team).

8). Manaslu: 8,163 meters (1956 Imanishi & Gyalzen Norbu).

9). Nanga Parbat: 8,126 meters (1953 Hermann Buhl, solo).

10). Annapurna I: 8,091 meters (1950 Herzog & Lachenal - the first 8000er ever climbed; both climbers losing fingers and toes due to frostbites).

11). Gasherbrum I: 8,080 meters (1958 Schoening & Kauffman).

12). Broad Peak: 8,051 meters (1957 Buhl, Diemberger, Schmuck, Wintersteller).

13). Gasherbrum II: 8,035 meters (1956 Moravec, Larch, Willenpart).

14). Shishapangma: 8,027 meters (1964 Xu Jing & Chinese team).

Maurice Herzog fingers frostbite (Annapurna 1950)

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