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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 ...
The Annapurna Sanctuary is a high glacial basin lying 40 km directly north of Pokhara. This oval-shaped plateau sits at an altitude of over 4000 metres, [1]: 29 and is surrounded by a ring of mountains, the Annapurna range, most of which are over 7000 metres. [2] With the only entrance being a narrow valley between the peaks of Hiunchuli and ...
Annapurna (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ p ʊər n ə ˌ-ˈ p ɜːr-/; [4] [5] Nepali: अन्नपूर्ण) is a mountain situated in the Annapurna mountain range of Gandaki Province, north-central Nepal. It is the 10th highest mountain in the world at 8,091 metres (26,545 ft) above sea level and is well known for the difficulty and danger involved ...
Shyauli Bazaar in Karapu, Ward No.9 Lamjung District is located at the river Middim Khola, 30 km east of Pokhara in Nepal. The tiny village is inside the range of the geographic middle of Nepal. geo:lat=28.103935006866482 geo:lon=84.22874987125397. A trekking path that starts at the Begnas Lake east of Pokhara leads alongside the village and up ...
Jean-Christophe Lafaille (31 March 1965 – 27 January 2006 [presumed]) was a French climber noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as "perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya", [1] when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a broken arm, after his climbing partner had been ...
The Manaslu region offers a variety of trekking options. The popular Manaslu trekking route of 177 kilometres (110 mi) skirts the Manaslu massif over the pass down to Annapurna. The Nepalese Government only permitted trekking on this circuit in 1991. [9] The trekking trail follows an ancient salt-trading route along the Budhi Gandaki River. En ...
Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, Kanchanjanghā and Khangchendzonga, is the third-highest mountain in the world.Its summit lies at 8,586 m (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas, the Kangchenjunga Himal, which is bounded in the west by the Tamur River, in the north by the Lhonak River and Jongsang La, and in the east by the Teesta River.
There are two base camps on Mount Everest, on opposite sides of the mountains: South Base Camp is in Nepal at an altitude of 5,364 metres (17,598 ft) (28°0′26″N86°51′34″E28.00722°N 86.85944°E), while North Base Camp is in Tibet at 5,150 metres (16,900 ft) (28°8′29″N86°51′5″E28.14139°N 86.85139°E). 1 [ 2 ][ 3 ] The base ...