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The seven summits


The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents.
Summiting all of them is regarded as the ultimate mountaineering challenge.
There are actually nine possible summits according to the different definitions of continental borders.
RegionRangeMountain  First To Climb 
West alpenSavoyer AlpenMont Blanc4811.00MetersJacques Balmat, Michel Paccard07/08/1786
NordamerikaAlaskaketteMount McKinley (Denali)6195.00MetersHudson Stuck, H.Karstens, W. Harper, R. Tatum07/06/1913
AfrikaKilimandscharo-MassivKibo5895.00MetersLudwig Purtscheller, Hans Meyer06/10/1889
AsiaHimalayaMount Everest (Sagarmatha oder Chomolungma)8848.00MetersEdmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay29/05/1953
OzeanienSudirman RangeCarstensz-Pyramide (Puncak Jaya)4884.00MetersHeinrich Harrer, Philip Temple, Russel Kippax und Albert Huizenga13/02/1962
New South Wales, AustralienGreat Dividing RangeMount Kosciuszko2228.00MetersPaweł Edmund Strzelecki01/01/1840
EuropeKaukasusElbrus5642.00MetersFlorence Crauford Grove01/06/1874
South americaAndenAconcagua6962.00MetersMatthias Zurbriggen14/01/1897
AntarktisSentinel RangeMount Vinson4892.00MetersNicholas B. Clinch17/12/1966