Most ascents of eight-thousanders by one person

What to remember

Fourteen mountains rise above 8,000 metres, all of them in Asia's Himalaya and Karakoram ranges. On 22 May 2024, Nepali guide Kami Rita made his 41st ascent of one of them, becoming the first person to reach that many eight-thousander summits.

That same day he stood on top of Everest for the 30th time, a record of its own.

The 14 eight-thousanders are recognised by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA), which counts only summits independent enough of neighbouring peaks. There is no formally agreed definition of that independence, and the UIAA has at times considered recognising 20 peaks. The first eight-thousander to be climbed was Annapurna I, on 3 June 1950, by the French climbers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.