The eight-thousanders are the fourteen independent mountains on Earth that are more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) high above sea level. They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia.

The first person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders was Reinhold Messner.He completed this task on October 16, 1986. A year later, in 1987, Jerzy Kukuczka became the second climber to accomplish this feat. As of 2009, a total of seventeen people have followed through undisputed. This is an extremely hazardous feat; at least four people have died while in pursuit of this goal. Juanito Oiarzabal has completed the most climbs of the eight-thousanders; a total of 23 times since 1985 to 2009.

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Ascents,deaths,death rate,death rate before 1990,death rate since 1990

List of eight-thousanders

Peak	Height	Location	First ascent	First ascensionist(s)	First ascent in winter	First ascensionist(s) in winter	Ascents	Deaths	Death rate	Death rate before 1990*	Death rate since 1990*
Everest	8848 m	Nepal/China	29 May 1953	Edmund Hillary Tenzing Norgay	17 Feb 1980	Krzysztof Wielicki Leszek Cichy	3684	210	5.70%	37%	4.4%
K2	8611 m	Karakoram[4]	31 Jul 1954	Achille Compagnoni Lino Lacedelli			284	66	23.24%	41%	19.7%
Kangchenjunga	8586 m	Nepal/India	25 May 1955	George Band Joe Brown	11 Jan 1986	Krzysztof Wielicki Jerzy Kukuczka	209	40	21.4%	21%	22%
Lhotse	8516 m	Nepal/China	18 May 1956	Fritz Luchsinger Ernst Reiss	31 Dec 1988	Krzysztof Wielicki	221	11	3.43%	14%	2%
Makalu	8485 m	Nepal/China	15 May 1955	Jean Couzy Lionel Terray	09 Feb 2009	Simone Moro Dennis Urubko	234	26	11.11%	16%	8.5%
Cho Oyu	8188 m	Nepal/China	19 Oct 1954	Joseph Joechler Pasang Dawa Lama Herbert Tichy	12 Feb 1985	Maciej Berbeka Maciej Pawlikowski Jerzy Kukuczka	2668	39	1.46%
Dhaulagiri I	8167 m	Nepal	13 May 1960	Kurt Diemberger Peter Diener Nawang Dorje Nima Dorje Ernst Forrer Albin Schelbert	21 Jan 1985	Andrzej Czok Jerzy Kukuczka	358	58	16.20%	31%	11%
Manaslu	8163 m	Nepal	09 May 1956	Toshio Imanishi Gyalzen Norbu	14 Jan 1984	Maciej Berbeka Ryszard Gajewski	297	53	17.85%	35.16%	13.42%
Nanga Parbat	8126 m	Pakistan	03 Jul 1953	Hermann Buhl			287	64	22.30%	77%	5.5%
Annapurna I	8091 m	Nepal	03 Jun 1950	Maurice Herzog Louis Lachenal	03 Feb 1987	Jerzy Kukuczka Artur Hajzer	153	58	42.85%	66%	19.7%
Gasherbrum I (also known as Hidden Peak)	8080 m	Karakoram[4]	05 Jul 1958	Andrew Kauffman Pete Schoening			265	25	9.43%	15.5%	8.75%
Broad Peak	8051 m	Karakoram[4]	09 Jun 1957	Fritz Wintersteller Marcus Schmuck Kurt Diemberger Hermann Buhl			359	19	5.29%	5%	8.6%
Gasherbrum II	8034 m	Karakoram[4]	08 Jul 1956	Fritz Moravec Josef Larch Hans Willenpart			836	19	2.27%	7.8%	0.44%
Shishapangma	8027 m	China	02 May 1964	Hsu Ching Chang Chun-yen Wang Fuzhou Chen San Cheng Tien-liang Wu Tsung-yue Sodnam Doji Migmar Trashi Doji Yonten	14 Jan 2005	Piotr Morawski Simone Moro	274	23	8.39%	2%	16.8%