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Coordinates: 28°35′43″N 83°49′32″E. Annapurna South Face from Base Camp (2013) The 1970 British Annapurna South Face expedition was a Himalayan climb that was the first to take a deliberately difficult route up the face of an 8,000-metre mountain. At the time that the expedition set out, in March 1970, the only 8000ers which had been ...
1, Jennifer. Ian Clough (1937–1970) was a British mountaineer who was killed on the 1970 British Annapurna expedition led by Sir Chris Bonington to climb the south face of the Himalayan massif. He was later described by Bonington as "the most modest man I ever had the good luck to climb with" and "the kindest and most selfless partner I ever ...
1970 British Annapurna South Face expedition, successful, summit reached by Dougal Haston and Don Whillans; death of Ian Clough 1972 Mount Everest , (south-west face), unsuccessful 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition , successful, summit reached by Doug Scott , Dougal Haston, Peter Boardman , Pertemba Sherpa and Mick Burke ...
Highest grade. E4 6a. First ascents. Goliath (1958, E4 6a) Rockhall Cottage, the Don Whillans Memorial Hut at the Roaches. Donald Desbrow Whillans (18 May 1933 – 4 August 1985) was an English rock climber and mountaineer. He climbed with Joe Brown and Chris Bonington on many new routes, and was considered the technical equal of both.
The Annapurna massif, view from aircraft The south face of Annapurna I See also: 1950 French Annapurna expedition and 1970 British Annapurna South Face expedition Annapurna I was the first 8,000-metre (26,200 ft) peak to be climbed. [ 10 ]
The most notable deadly events on Everest were the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition, 1970 Everest disaster, 1974 Everest disaster, 1996 Everest disaster, 2014 Mount Everest avalanche, and 2015 Mount Everest avalanches and the 2023 Mount Everest season. As of August 2024, there had been 12,678 successful summits, and 365 people had died ...
Edward F. Norton (1884–1954) leader of 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition with Mallory and Irvine; Sue Nott (1969–2006) US, ice climber and first American woman to climb the Eiger north face in winter (2003) Wilfrid Noyce (1917–1962) UK, on Everest expedition (1953), reaching South Col, killed in Pamirs (1962)
The 1950 French Annapurna expedition, led by Maurice Herzog, reached the summit of Annapurna I at 8,091 metres (26,545 ft), the highest peak in the Annapurna Massif. The mountain is in Nepal and the government had given permission for the expedition, the first time it had permitted mountaineering in over a century.