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In February 2025 Nepal's tourism department quietly redrew the map of the world's highest mountains, finding six new 8,000-metre summits hidden…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 5, 2026
Ask a climber how many mountains on Earth rise above 8,000 metres and they'll say fourteen — the same fourteen mentioned in mountaineering lore since the 1980s, when Reinhold Messner became the first person to summit them all. Ask Nepal's Department of…
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What this means for you Nothing changes on the trail. Every one of the six 'new' peaks sits inside a massif you can already trek to — the Kangchenjunga additions are visible from the Kanchenjunga Base Camp trek in Nepal's remote far east, and the Lhotse pair…
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