The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (“UIAA”) recognizes only these peaks as meeting the 8,000-meter requirement, as ‘sufficiently independent of neighboring peaks’.

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to reopen to international foreigners after a 5-year closure due to unrest in Western Papua. Madison Mountaineering and Climbing The Seven Summits (“CTSS”) just tagged the top of the mountain ...

For Nima, it was the final of the “eight-thousanders,” the 14 peaks recognized by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation as standing more than 8,000 meters above sea level.Describing ...