What changed on 7summits.com in October 2026

On 21 October 7summits.com quietly opened to everyone. We didn't announce it yet as we wanted to check some things first. we had to fight herds of bots, saw the hosting fees go up tenfold and fixed a few hundred bugs and added a lot of extra features.

October was the month of getting ready for that launch day, and it was the busiest month of the rebuild so far.

The site opened, and pages got fast

The relaunch post tells the story of the new site. Behind it, the pages became much quicker: guide chapters, peak pages, FAQs and the Library are kept ready to send, so a click shows the page almost at once. A link starts fetching its page as soon as you point at it.

The site also got a new look. Pages now look like a surveyor's map sheet, paper and ink with one amber color for anything you can click, and each mountain's pages carry its real contour lines in the background.

More than 800 finishers

93 climbers joined the finisher record in October, which now holds more than 800 people who have completed a list. More than 700 existing records were updated, many with a photo, a website link or a firmer date. And we added some new features.

• The finishers page opens with a band made of every finisher's face
• a birthdays box shows whose birthday it is today and this week.
• There are now separate lists for women, for men and per country.
• Climber pages can show a gallery of the photos climbers sent in, and up to seven videos.
• Finishers can sign up and claim their record in one step
• They can then make a badge for their own website or a banner for LinkedIn.
• Each climber decides for themselves whether their age and birthday appear on the site.

For members

• Every member now has a profile at an address of their own, 7summits.com/ followed by their handle,
• Everyone gets a photo library with albums.
• Trip reports gained a "Gear used" section
• The trip reports from the old 7summits.com are back, each with an "originally by" line for its author.

More new features finished this month:

• The trip duffel packs a mountain's gear list with weights, so you can see what the bag will weigh before you fill it.
• Books and films in the Library can now be reviewed and rated, on a scale of seven yaks.
• The new 7 summits roadmap is where members propose what the site should build next and vote on it.
• Signing in with Microsoft works too (in addition to Google SSO), and
• Memberships can be given as a gift, just in time for the holiday season!

Operators per peak

Each mountain has its own operator page, for example Everest's operators.

Companies can list their next departures with the places left, and enquiries are now a conversation on the site, so both sides can read and answer them in one place.

Guides, maps and new pages

More new features and a lot of new and updated content!

• Route maps are drawn on the site's own topographic map, with a switch to satellite view, and you can explore them interactively.
• About 320 guide pages were revised in October, close to all 327 of them,
• Also updated: about 100 FAQs, and 17 new FAQs were added.

Several new pages opened as well.

• /7 introduces the eight mountains in eight short portraits.
• Guidebooks gathers the eight guides on one page.
• The story of the 7 summits now has a history page
• We also a page about the chroniclers who kept the lists.
• Journalists have a press kit with live numbers,
• The quotes now have a page of their own in addition to the ones appearing on every page
• The trivia flashcards appear in the reader's own language.

Pictures and news

1,099 images were added in October: 532 photographs, 307 portraits (most of them finishers), 173 book covers, 50 maps and diagrams, and 37 video stills. 119 came from climbers' own websites, 116 from Wikimedia Commons and 115 from the 7summits.com archive.

38 posts appeared in News. The first Book of the week and Film of the week appeared among them.

Three longer reads explain Bass or Messner, which of the 7 summits to climb first and the seasons of the 7 summits.

For the number nerds

537 pull requests were merged in October. The code grew from about 369,000 lines to about 562,000, and the automated tests from about 76,000 lines to 110,000, in 960 test files.

At the end of October the Library holds 994 books and 120 films and documentaries, and the site carries 1,401 quotes and nearly 1,000 trivia questions.