Makalu from the Third Step on Everest, just after sunrise
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7 continents, but two defensible answers for Australasia, which is why the full set is 8 mountains, not 7. Each one has its own guide.
'Everest: The Other Side' gets a 30 October releaseThe IMAX documentary following ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson on the north side of Everest opens in theatres…
This week on the 7 summits: 12–18 October 2026Aconcagua bans high-risk sports in its busiest weeks, and wildfire smoke ends the Carstensz Pyramid season.
The Kangshung Face: what the record holds about Everest's eastern wallEverest's Kangshung Face rises around 3,350 metres from the Kangshung Glacier to the summit and was first climbed by an…
Study links altitude headache to CGRP, the molecule behind migraineA field study from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich followed volunteers from 450 metres to the Capanna Regina Margherita at 4554 metres and…Which one counts? Two people drew the list differently, so we record both and say which one each finisher completed.
Dick Bass took Kosciuszko, the highest point of mainland Australia and a walk-up. It is the older list, and the one most finishers claim.
Reinhold Messner argued the continent is Australasia, which makes Carstensz Pyramid the peak: a technical rock climb in Papua, and a far harder day.
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Dick Bass's own account of the climbs that created the list almost everyone still counts by. Read it and the Bass-versus-Messner argument stops being trivia.
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Behind every line in the record is someone who spent years, and usually a good deal more than money, getting there.
Masha Gordon
Andrónico Luksic
Angus Caithness
Malcolm Alexander
Lena Gorelik
Sergey Kofanov
Stipe Božic
Alina Pekova
Ed Diffendal
Susan Ershler
Jaime Vinals
Andrey Muravyov
Ronald Naar
Oleg Savchenko
Joby Ogwyn
Cason Crane
Danielle Fisher
Robert Alt
Giuseppe Pompili
Karo Ovasapyan
Rhys Miles Jones
Atanas Skatov
Steven Plain
Bruce ParkerThe 7 summits are the highest mountains of the seven continents: Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson and, depending on which list you follow, Carstensz Pyramid or Kosciuszko. This site holds a guide to each of the eight, the record of everyone who has climbed them all, and the companies that take people up.
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