Eight-thousander Timeline of Events

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The eight-thousanders are the fourteen independent mountains on Earth that are more than high above sea level. They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia....

Timeline of Events

1937

6.15.1937

A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.

1950

6.3.1950

First successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; Annapurna was summited by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal

1964

5.2.1964

First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.