8. Manaslu
Elevation: 8,156 meters
Manaslu, located in Nepal’s Himalayas, is 40 miles east of Annapurna. Its name means ‘mountain of the spirit’ in Sanskrit. Manaslu is hit by more avalanches than some of the other peaks in our list, and in 2012 eleven climbers were killed in an avalanche disaster. Avalanches, as well as monsoon conditions, were behind several failed attempts at climbing the peak in the early 1950s; no-one was successful in reaching the top until 1956 when a local Sherpa finally made it. Nobody else achieved his feat until 1971, and the first American to conquer Manaslu was not until Charlie Mace’s success in 1997.
