List of ski descents of eight-thousanders

This is a list of ski descents of eight-thousanders (which are the 14 highest peaks in the world that are over 8000 m in elevation). Such feats are part of the sport of ski mountaineering, and also related to the sport of extreme skiing. The first descents can be traced to the 1970s.

Notable firsts

 * 1970: Yuichiro Miura (Japan) made the first ski tracks above 8000m in preparation for his schuss from the south col of Everest for the film The Man Who Skied Down Everest.
 * Yves Morin† (France) was the first to ski down an 8000m peak which he did on Annapurna in 1979 and over the course of the expedition skied all segments of the descent. However, he died while descending from the summit.
 * 1988: Veronique Perillat (France) became the first woman to ski from the top of an eight-thousander and the first woman to ski from over 8000 meters, skiing off the top of Cho Oyu on a monoski.
 * 2000: Davo Karničar† (Slovenia) completed the first top-to-bottom (base camp) descent of Everest (South Col route) without removing his skis. However, he benefited from 02 use. There has not been a similar ascent/descent of Everest without oxygen. 1996: Hans Kammerlander (Italy) skied the top 300 meters of Everest but climbed down to 7700m before skiing to Advance Base Camp. Kammerlander skied the North Col route.
 * 2006: Kit DesLauriers (United States) is the first woman to ski from the top of Everest.
 * 2018: Andrzej Bargiel (Poland) completed the first top-to-bottom (base camp) descent of K2 (a combination of the normal route, Basque route, Messner's variant to the Polish route) without removing his skis.

Mount Everest
NEPAL/TIBET - 8850 meters

K2
PAKISTAN - 8611 meters

Kangchenjunga
NEPAL - 8586 meters

Bartek Ziemski NO O2 Skied from summit

No ski descents from above 8000 meters

Lhotse
NEPAL - 8516 meters

Makalu
NEPAL - 8466

Cho Oyu
NEPAL - 8188 meters

Dhaulagiri
NEPAL - 8167 meters

Manaslu
NEPAL - 8163 meters

Nanga Parbat
PAKISTAN - 8126 meters

Annapurna
NEPAL - 8093 meters

Gasherbrum I
- PAKISTAN - 8080 meters

Broad Peak
PAKISTAN - 8051 meters

Gasherbrum II
PAKISTAN - 8034 meters

Shisha Pangma
CHINA - 8027 meters