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Nepal shares five of its eight giants with a neighbour, and all eight were first climbed within a single decade, starting with Annapurna in 1950.
By Laxman Rawal · Sep 19, 2026
Key facts 8 of the 14 mountains above 8,000 m lie wholly or partly in Nepal Only 3 are entirely Nepali: Dhaulagiri I, Manaslu and Annapurna I The other 5 sit on a border: Everest, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu and Cho Oyu All eight were first climbed between…
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Dhaulagiri I, Manaslu and Annapurna I are wholly inside Nepal. The other five straddle a frontier. Everest, Lhotse, Makalu and Cho Oyu sit on the Nepal-China border, and Kangchenjunga sits on the Nepal-India border. The remaining six eight-thousanders are…
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The gap between the biggest and smallest is larger than the raw heights suggest. Measured by how far each rises above the 8,000 m line, Everest is nearly ten times higher than Annapurna I. Metres above 8,000 m, Nepal's eight-thousanders
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The first eight-thousander anyone ever climbed was one of Nepal's. On 3 June 1950, Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal of a French expedition reached the summit of Annapurna I without supplementary oxygen. It is also the only 8,000-metre summit reached on the…
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To walk around one of Nepal's own eight-thousanders, look at the 14-day Manaslu Circuit , or the shorter 9-day Annapurna Base Camp trek , which climbs into the sanctuary beneath Annapurna I. For a remote border giant, our 22-day Kanchenjunga Base Camp trek…
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