The Highest Mountain Peaks on Every Continent The Seven Summits Guide
For mountaineers, geologists, and adventurers, the “Seven Summits”—the highest mountain peaks on each of Earth’s seven continents—represent the ultimate global mountaineering milestone and a grand tour of planetary orogeny. Conceived as a formal mountaineering challenge in the 1980s by American businessman Richard Bass, climbing the Seven Summits requires mastering extreme high-altitude physiology in the Himalayas, … Read more