14 Highest Mountains in the World

There are only 14 mountains in the world which are over 8000m / 26247ft above sea level. They are known as the ‘eight-thousanders’. These mountains are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges – across Nepal, Tibet (China) and Pakistan.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel

Climbing to the summit of all 14 eight-thousanders is regarded as a mountaineering challenge and as at 2023 less than 50 mountaineers have achieved this. The Himalayan Database captures many of these ascents.

So we have created a trekking challenge – to trek to the base camps of the world’s 14 highest mountains over 8000m – Project Base8000 – which in itself is a challenge of high altitude and logistics, even though we will not be climbing to the summits.

You can read more about each mountain, and our perspective as trekkers, by following the links below. We will continue to update these pages as we learn more and progress on our adventure.

The 14 highest mountains in the world, in order of height, are: