Fewest climbing days for the Seven Summits (Bass list)

What to remember

AC Sherpa needed only 42 climbing days to complete the Seven Summits, a record set in 2010 on Richard Bass's version.

That version, the first to be drawn up, takes the highest mountain on each of the seven traditional continents, with Mount Kosciuszko standing for Australia. Bass himself became the first climber to reach all seven, on 30 April 1985. A second version, Reinhold Messner's, replaces Kosciuszko with Puncak Jaya.

In January 2023, the magazine Climbing called the Seven Summits a relatively common tour of each continent's highest peak.