The highest ground on the planet, drawn to scale. Every triangle below is a real summit โ hover for its name, click to fly the map there.
Sagarmatha / Chomolungma
The highest point on Earth measured from sea level; the summit pyramid is marine limestone laid down on an ancient sea floor.
Chhogori
Known as the Savage Mountain โ steeper, colder and far deadlier than Everest, with no successful winter ascent until 2021.
Kanchenjunga
Climbers traditionally stop a few metres short of the true summit, honouring a promise made to the people of Sikkim.
Shares the South Col and most of its climbing route with Everest before branching to its own summit couloir.
An isolated four-sided pyramid whose knife-edged ridges make it one of the hardest eight-thousanders.
Widely regarded as the most approachable eight-thousander thanks to its gentle north-west slopes.
Its name means White Mountain; for three decades after 1808 it was believed to be the highest mountain on Earth.
The Mountain of the Spirit, long considered a Japanese climbing preserve after the first ascent from Tokyo.
Diamir
Its Rupal Face rises 4,600 m in one sweep โ the tallest mountain wall anywhere on the planet.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, and still the one with the highest fatality rate among summit attempts.
Hidden Peak
Called Hidden Peak because it stays out of sight until you are deep inside the Baltoro glacier system.
Falchan Kangri
A summit ridge more than a kilometre long, climbed in pure alpine style on its first ascent.
The most frequently climbed peak in the Karakoram, and the first eight-thousander summited in winter in Pakistan.
Gosainthan
The only eight-thousander entirely inside Tibet, and the last of the fourteen to be climbed.
The highest summit outside Asia and the highest point in both the southern and western hemispheres.
The highest active volcano on Earth, holding a permanent crater lake at 6,390 m.
The Mother's Necklace โ its long ridges are the arms and the hanging glacier the pendant.
Nevado Huascarรกn
Its summit has the lowest gravitational pull anywhere on the planet, thanks to altitude and equatorial bulge.
Gang Rinpoche
Sacred to four religions and never climbed โ pilgrims instead walk a 52 km circuit around its base.
The point on the surface furthest from the centre of the Earth โ closer to space than Everest's summit.
Mount McKinley
Measured from base to summit it is the tallest land-based rise anywhere, and the coldest big mountain on Earth.
Has the largest base circumference of any non-volcanic mountain on Earth, and is still growing tectonically.
Uhuru Peak
A free-standing volcano that climbs through five climate zones, from rainforest to arctic summit, in a few days walking.
Elbrus
A twin-coned dormant volcano and the highest point in Europe under the Caucasus watershed definition.
Citlaltรฉpetl
North America's highest volcano, whose Nahuatl name means Star Mountain.
Mount Damฤvand
The highest volcano in Asia and a fixture of Persian mythology, where a tyrant lies chained inside the mountain.
Batian
An eroded volcanic plug sitting almost exactly on the equator, yet carrying its own shrinking glaciers.
Aฤrฤฑ Daฤฤฑ
A snow-capped stratovolcano rising straight from the plain, traditionally identified as the landing place of the Ark.
Vinson Massif
Only about 1,400 people have stood on the highest point of Antarctica, some 1,200 km from the South Pole.
Carstensz Pyramid
The highest island peak on Earth, and the only Seven Summit that is a technical rock climb.
Monte Bianco
Its 1786 ascent is taken as the birth of mountaineering as a sport; its summit height changes yearly with the snow cap.
Cervino / Monte Cervino
The four-sided pyramid that ended the golden age of alpinism when four climbers died descending the first ascent.
Tahoma
Carries more glacier ice than every other peak in the contiguous United States combined.
Wagagai
Holds the largest volcanic caldera in the world by surface area, some 40 km across.
Measured from its Pacific sea floor base it stands over 10,000 m โ taller than Everest, most of it underwater.
Gunung Kinabalu
A young granite dome still rising several millimetres a year, wrapped in one of the richest plant habitats on Earth.
The southernmost active volcano on Earth, holding one of the very few persistent lava lakes.
Fuji-san
A near-perfect cone that has drawn pilgrims for over a thousand years; roughly 300,000 people climb it each summer.
Aoraki
Lost ten metres of height in a 1991 rock avalanche that tore away its summit ice cap.
Cerro Chaltรฉn
A granite spire whose Tehuelche name means smoking mountain, for the cloud plume that streams from its summit.
Mongibello
Europe's most active volcano, with eruptions documented continuously for more than 2,700 years.
Mytikas
Home of the twelve gods in Greek myth, and not summited by humans until the twentieth century.
Jabal Musa
Climbed at night by pilgrims of three faiths so they can reach the summit for sunrise.
The gentlest of the Seven Summits โ a signposted walking track reaches the top of mainland Australia.
Beinn Nibheis
The collapsed remains of an ancient volcano; its summit plateau sees fog on about 80 per cent of days.
Huriวoaxa
Its flat sandstone top is older than the Himalayas and is regularly draped by the tablecloth cloud.