Nepal, Jan. 7 -- Nepal has added six Himalayan peaks to raise the total eight-thousanders from 14 to 20 In 2025, Nepal's Ministry of Tourism added six new 8,000m peaks to those listed on its website. These are subsidiary summits of Kangchenjunga and Lhotse, which some view as insufficiently independent to be called separate peaks.

In 2024, the international mountaineering federation (UIAA) responded to a request by the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) and the government to officially recognise these peaks. While recognising that 'there is no one definition of a "mountain" or a "peak" or a "top" or "point" in topographic terms', and encouraging further debate the UIAA's opinion was that the 8,000m peaks should continue to the 'Class...