9. Nanga Parbat
Elevation: 8,126 meters
Nanga Parbat, another of the Himalayan giants, is the most westerly peak in our list. It is made remarkable one of its three vast faces: the Rupal face, which is the highest mountain face in the world. The 19th-century mountaineer Albert Mummery described the Rupal face as ‘ the most terrifying faces of a mountain I have ever seen’. It is widely considered to be the third most dangerous mountain in the world (keep on reading to find out which peaks are even more treacherous), and has a death rate of over 22%. 31 climbers died before it was successfully conquered in 1953, by Austrian climber Hermann Buhl.
