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Road to the Crown of the Himalayas: Reinhold Messner’s ascents of the 14 eight-thousanders

Messner climbed some peaks twice, so the list contains 17 entries instead of 14

1. 27.06.1970 8125 m Nanga Parbat
2. 25.04.1972 8163 m Manaslu
3. 10.08.1975 8080 m Gasherbrum I
4. 08.05.1978 8849 m Mount Everest
5. 09.08.1978 8125 m Nanga Parbat – first complete solo ascent of an 8000-meter peak
6. 12.07.1979 8611 m K2
7. 20.08.1980 8849 m Mount Everest – first solo ascent of Mount Everest, without supplemental oxygen
8. 28.05.1981 8027 m Shishapangma
9. 06.05.1982 8586 m Kangchenjunga
10. 24.07.1982 8035 m Gasherbrum II
11. 02.08.1982 8051 m Broad Peak – Messner’s third 8,000-meter peak in a single season, the first such "hat-trick" in mountaineering history
12. 05.05.1983 8188 m Cho Oyu
13. 24...25.06.1984 8080+8035 m Gasherbrum I + Gasherbrum II – first traverse of two 8000-meter peaks without returning to base camp
14. 24.04.1985 8091 m Annapurna I
15. 15.05.1985 8167 m Dhaulagiri I
16. 26.09.1986 8485 m Makalu
17. 16.10.1986 8516 m Lhotse – Messner becomes the first person to climb all 14 highest peaks

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