Nepal has the largest share of the highest peaks in the world. Of the fourteen peaks over 8,000m known as
the eight-thousanders, eight of them lie in the Nepal Himalaya. These include the highest mountain in the world, Mt. everest (8,848m) and the third highest, Mt. Kanchenjunga (8,586m). Attempts were made on Mt. Everest since the 1920s, but it was only in 1953 that the peak was successfully climed. The 1950s became known as the Golden Decade of climbing as most of the eight-thousanders were conquered within the ten years. Annapurna (8,091m) was the first among them to be climbed, in 1950. The other eight-thousanders are Lhotse (8,516), Makalu (8,463m), Cho Oyu (8,210m), Dhaulagiri (8,167m) and Manaslu (8,163m).
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