SEVEN SUMMITS

• The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents.
• Summiting all of them is regarded as a mountaineering challenge, first postulated as such and achieved on April 30, 1985 by Richard Bass.

• Premlata Agarwal the first Indian woman to scale the Seven Summits after climbing the McKinley Peak in May 2013.

  

Peak	Elevation	Continent	Range	Country	First ascent
Mount Everest	8,848 m (29,029 ft)	Asia	Himalaya	Nepal / China	1953
Aconcagua	6,961 m (22,838 ft)	South America	Andes	Argentina	1897
Mount McKinley	6,194 m (20,322 ft)	North America	Alaska Range	United States	1913
Kilimanjaro	5,895 m (19,341 ft)	Africa	–	Tanzania	1889
Mount Elbrus	5,642 m (18,510 ft)	Europe	Caucasus Mountains	Russia	1874
Mount Vinson	4,892 m (16,050 ft)	Antarctica	Sentinel Range	–	1966
Puncak Jaya	4,884 m (16,024 ft)	Australia (continent)	Sudirman Range	Indonesia	1962
Mount Kosciuszko	2,228 m (7,310 ft)	Australia	Great Dividing Range	Australia	1840