Today the series of summit area posts continues. This time Lhotse and Makalu. In the past there were several ascents not on the true summit on both mountains, so maybe with these detailed reports it is now  possible to know, where they stopped. As soon as possible the much more difficult summit history for Manaslu, Annapurna I and Dhaulagiri I will also be explained in detail here. It seems that nearly nobody climbed all the 14 true summits and there will be no more accepted records including one or more of the false summit claims for the future and also the past. It is sure, that Miss Hawley and Xavier Eguskitza, the two main chroniclers of the past, would never have accepted all these false summits, if they had known it. Also it is just unfair to note and count false summits the same way as true summits. This is just logical.  Makalu Lhotse

Recently some important additions were added to the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri Summit Area PDF´s. Especially distances are now shown for all the different "summit" points. Note that for examples the distance on Dhaulagiri to the "Metal Pole Area" is about 140 m, the distance between the Western Rocky Foresummit to the top is about 60 m; on Annapurna from Ridge Junction to the tops is about 65 m and from the tops to C0 is about 190 m.