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Pages in category "Deaths on Annapurna" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Anatoli Boukreev; C.
Makalu is the world's fifth-highest mountain at 8,481 meters (27,825 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest on the China–Nepal border. As of December 2024, there had been 800 successful summits of Makalu and 50 deaths on the mountain. [1]
The 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster occurred in central Nepal on 14 October 2014 and resulted in the deaths of at least 43 people of various nationalities, including at least 21 trekkers. Injuries and fatalities resulted from unusually severe snowstorms and avalanches on and around the mountains of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri . [ 2 ]
Broad death rate: The first metric is the ratio of total deaths [c] on the mountain to successful climbers summiting over a given period. [30] The Guinness Book of World Records uses this metric to name Annapurna I as the deadliest eight-thousander, and the world's deadliest mountain with roughly one person dying for every three people who ...
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 ...
He started climbing at the age of 16 in Hostýnské vrchy and later at the Tatra Mountains. In 1999 he climbed his first eight-thousander Manaslu. Later he climbed six more: Kangchenjunga (2002), Broad Peak (2003), Shishapangma (2004), Cho Oyu (2005), Lhotse (2007) and Dhaulagiri (2008). [1] He died during a descent of Annapurna with Élisabeth ...
B. Johannes Theodor Baargeld; John Bachar; Klemens Bachleda; Francis Maitland Balfour; Gary Ball; Tom Ballard (climber) Bronisław Bandrowski; Roger Baxter-Jones
Annapurna (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ p ʊər n ə ˌ-ˈ p ɜːr-/; [5] [6] 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 ...