List of first ascents

The following list summarizes the first ascents of mountains and peaks around the world, in chronological order.

Peak Height Range Country Climber Nationality Year
Mount Fuji 3,776 m  Japan anonymous  Japan 663
Rocciamelone 3,538 Alps  Italy Bonifacius Rotarius  Italy 1358
Mont Aiguille 2,085 m  France Antoine de Ville  France 1492
Table Mountain 1,086 m  South Africa António de Saldanha (first recorded ascent)  Portugal 1503
Corno Grande 2,912 m Apennines  Italy Francesco De Marchi  Italy 1573
Mount Washington 1,917 m Appalachians  United States Darby Field (first recorded ascent)  Ireland 1642
Titlis 3,238 m Alps  Switzerland Ignaz Herz, J. E. Waser and 2 others  Switzerland 1739
Hekla 1,488 m  Iceland Eggert Ólafsson  Iceland 1750
Ankogel 3,252 m Alps  Austria "Farmer Patsch"  Austria 1762
Ben Nevis 1,334 m Grampian Range  Scotland James Robertson (first recorded ascent)  United Kingdom 1771
Mont Vélan 3,727 m Alps  Switzerland Laurent Joseph Murith  Switzerland 1779
Mont Blanc 4,808 m Alps  France /  Italy Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard  France 1786
Klyuchevskaya Sopka 4,750 m Kamchatka  Russia Daniil Gauss and two others  Russian Empire 1788
Großglockner 3,797 m Alps  Austria F. Horrasch, Martin Klotz and Sepp Klotz  Austria 1800
Ortler 3,905 m Alps  Italy Josef Pichler and two others  Austria-Hungary 1804
Mount Katahdin 1,608 m Appalachians  United States Charles Turner, Jr., William Howe and Amos Patten (first recorded ascent)  USA 1804
Jungfrau 4,158 m Alps  Switzerland J. Meyer, H. Meyer and others  Switzerland 1811
Zugspitze 2,962 m Alps  Germany /  Austria J. Naus and others  Germany 1820
Pikes Peak 4,302 m Rockies  United States Edwin James and two others  USA 1820
Mount Elbrus 5,642 m Caucasus  Russia Killar Kashirov (expedition led by Lenz)  Russian Empire 1829
Gerlachovský štít 2,655 m Carpathian Mountains  Slovakia Ján Still  Slovakia 1834
Rysy 2,503 m Carpathian Mountains  Slovakia/ Poland Eduard Blásy, Ján Ruman Driečny Sr.  Slovakia 1840
Aneto 3,404 m Pyrenees  Spain P. de Tchihatcheff (Chikhachev)
five others
 Russian Empire
 France
1842
Piz Bernina 4,049 m Eastern Alps  Switzerland Johann Coaz and party  Switzerland 1850
Galdhøpiggen 2,469 m Jotunheimen  Norway Steinar Sulheim, S. Flaatten and L. Arnesen  Germany/ Norway 1850
Pico de Orizaba 5,700 m Sierra Madre Oriental  Mexico Alexander Doignon  France 1851
Mount St. Helens 2,550 m Cascade Range  United States Thomas J. Dryer  USA 1853
Dufourspitze of Monte Rosa 4,634 m Pennine Alps  Switzerland Charles Hudson and guides  Switzerland /  United Kingdom 1855
Eiger 3,970 m Bernese Alps  Switzerland Charles Barrington and guides  Switzerland /  United Kingdom 1858
Mount Cameroon 4,070 m  Cameroon Gustav Mann (Germany) and Richard Francis Burton  United Kingdom 1861
Weisshorn 4,506 m Pennine Alps  Switzerland John Tyndall and guides  Switzerland/ United Kingdom 1861
Matterhorn 4,478 m Alps  Switzerland
 Italy
Edward Whymper and others  United Kingdom
 Switzerland
 France
1865
Aiguille Verte 4,121 m Alps  France Edward Whymper, Christian Almer, Franz Biner  United Kingdom
 Switzerland
1865
Longs Peak 4,345 m Rockies  United States John Wesley Powell  USA 1868
Grand Teton 4,197 m Rockies  United States N. Langford/Owens and Spalding  USA 1872/1893
Mount Kerinci 3,805 m Barisan Mountains  Indonesia Von Hasselt and Veth  Germany 1877
Meije 3,983 m Alps  France E. Boileau de Castelnau, father and son Pierre Gaspard (climber)  France 1877
Mount Ruapehu 2,797 m Taupo Volcanic Zone  New Zealand George Beetham, Joseph Prime Maxwell  New Zealand 1879
Chimborazo 6,267 m Andes  Ecuador Edward Whymper  United Kingdom 1880
Kebnekaise 2,111 m Scandinavian Mountains  Sweden Charles Rabot  France 1883
Mount Kinabalu 4,095 m Crocker Range  Malaysia John Whitehead  United Kingdom 1888
Kibo 5,895 m Kilimanjaro  Tanzania Hans Meyer
Ludwig Purtscheller
 Germany
 Austria
1889
Aoraki/Mount Cook 3,754 m Southern Alps  New Zealand T. Fyfe, G. Graham, J. Clarke  New Zealand 1894
Aconcagua 6,959 m Andes  Argentina Matthias Zurbriggen  Switzerland 1897
Mount Saint Elias 5,489 m Saint Elias Mountains  Canada /  United States Luigi Amedeo  Italy 1897
Batian 5,199 m Mount Kenya Massif  Kenya Halford Mackinder, Cesar Ollier and Joseph Brocherel  United Kingdom 1899
Margherita Peak 5,109 m Ruwenzori Mountains  Democratic Republic of the Congo /  Uganda Duke of the Abruzzi and a large party  Italy 1906
Mount Erebus 3,794 m Transantarctic Mountains  Antarctica Tannatt William Edgeworth David and others  United Kingdom 1908
Trisul 7,120 m Himalayas  India Tom Longstaff, A. Brocherel, H. Brocherel, Karbir  United Kingdom
 Switzerland
 India
1907
Herðubreið 1,682 m  Iceland Sigurður Sumarliðason and Hans Reck  Iceland
 Germany
1908
Huascaran N. 6,645 m Andes  Peru Annie Peck, R. Taugwalder  United States 1908
Mount McKinley 5,935 m Alaska Range  United States The Sourdough expedition: Tom Lloyd, Peter Anderson, Billy Taylor, and Charles McGonagall  USA 1910
Mount McKinley 6,198 m Alaska Range  United States Hudson Stuck, Walter Harper, and others  USA 1913
Mount Robson 3,954 m Canadian Rockies  Canada Kain and McCarty (Canada) and others  Austria
 Canada
1913
Mount Logan 5,959 m Saint Elias Mountains  Canada A.H. MacCarthy et al.  Canada 1925
Mount Russell 4,296 m Sierra Nevada  United States Norman Clyde  United States 1926
Mount Tahat 2,918 m Hoggar  Algeria Edouard Wyss-Dunant  Switzerland 1931
Huascaran S. 6,768 m Andes  Peru Bernard, Borchers  Austria 1932
Devils Tower 1,558 m Rockies  United States Rogers, Willard, (Wiessner)  United States 1893, 1934
Nanda Devi 7,816 m Himalayas  India Bill Tilman and Noel Odell  United Kingdom 1937
Emi Koussi 3,415 m Tibesti  Chad Wilfred Thesiger  Germany 1938
Annapurna 8,091 m Himalayas  Nepal M. Herzog and L. Lachenal  France 1950
Mount Everest 8,848 m Himalayas  Nepal /  China Tenzing Norgay
Edmund Hillary
 Nepal
 New Zealand
1953
Nanga Parbat 8,126 m Himalaya  Pakistan Hermann Buhl  Austria 1953
K2 8,611 m Karakorum  Pakistan Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli  Italy 1954
Kangchenjunga 8,586 m Himalayas  Nepal /  India George Band and Joe Brown  United Kingdom 1955
Lhotse 8,516 m Himalaya  Nepal F. Luchsinger and E. Reiß  Switzerland 1956
Broad Peak 8,047 m Karakoram  Pakistan Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger and Hermann Buhl  Austria 1957
Puncak Jaya 4,884 m Sudirman Range  Indonesia Heinrich Harrer and others  Austria 1962
Mount Chamberlin 2,749 m Brooks Range  United States George G. Barnes, Dennis Burge, Graham Stephenson  United States 1963
Mount Vinson 4,897 m Sentinel Range  Antarctica Nicholas Clinch and others  United States 1966
Barbeau Peak 2,616 m Arctic Cordillera  Canada Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith  United Kingdom 1967
Chogolisa 7,665 m Karakoram  Pakistan Fred Pressl and Gustav Ammerer  Austria 1975
Batura Sar 7,795 m Karakoram  Pakistan Hubert Bleicher and Herbert Oberhofer  West Germany 1976
Changtse 7,580 m Himalaya  China Johan Taks  Netherlands 1982
Cho Polu 6,735 m Himalaya  Nepal Olaf Rieck, Dieter Rülker, Markus Walter and Günter Jung  Germany 1999
Num Ri 6,677 m Himalaya  Nepal Olaf Rieck, Lydia Schubert und Carsten Schmidt  Germany 2002

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