To the summit: fifty mountains that lure, inspire and challenge

Asia. K2: from K2: the story of a savage mountain by Jim Curran ; Biography, Charles S. Houston

Nanga Parbat: from All 14-eight-thousanders by Reinhold Messner

Trango Tower

Nanda Devi: from "Nanda Devi from the North" by Willi Unsoeld

Kanchenjunga

Annapurna: from Annapurna by Maurice Herzog

Mount Everest: from "Life is a mountain: into thin air and beyond" by Thomas F. Hornbein ; Biography, George Leigh Mallory ; Biography, Stacy Allison ; Biography, Thomas Hornbein ; from Into thin air by Jon Krakauer ; from "Sherpas on Everest" by Liesl Clark and Audrey Salkeld

Pik Kommunizma: from Storm and sorrow in the high Pamirs by Robert W. Craig

Mount Ararat

Mount Fuji.

Africa. Mount Kenya

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Stanley: Biography, the Duke of Abruzzi. Australasia & Antarctica. Carstensz Pyramid: Biography, Sir Edmund Hillary

Mount Cook

Vinson Massif.

Europe. Ben Nevis: from One man's mountains by Tom Patey ; Biography, Douglas Scott

Snowdon: from "The mountaineer as artist" by George Leigh Mallory

Mont Blanc: Biography, Albert Mummery ; from Solo faces by James Salter

Grandes Jorasses: biography, Catherine Destivelle

Eiger: Biography, Reinhold Messner ; from Starlight and storm: the ascent of six great north faces of the Alps by Gaston Rebuffat

Jungfrau

Matterhorn: from Scrambles amongst the Alps by Edward Whymper ; biography, Edward Whymper

Piz Bernina

Monte Rosa

Cima Grande: from A soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

Mount Elbrus.

North America. Denali: Biography, Bradford Washburn

Mount Saint Elias: from On mountains: thinking about terrain by John Jerome

Mount Hood

Mount Rainier: biography, James W. Whittaker

Longs Peak

South Maroon

Grand Teton

Mount Owen: from "A test of will" by Al Alvarez

Devil's Tower

Mount Whitney: biography, Yvon Chouinard

El Capitan: Camp Four by Doug Robinson

Mount Logan

Mount Robson

Mount Assiniboine: Biography, Fred Beckey

Bugaboo Spire

Mount Asgard

Mount Washington: biography, Miriam Underhill.

South America. Chimborazo

Huascaran

Alpamayo

Yerupaja: from Touching the void by Joe Simpson

Aconcagua: Mountain sickness by Charles S. Houston

Fitzroy.