CARLOS PAUNER | ANNAPURNA 2010

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Zaragoza, Saturday, 18th of April 2010

RESTING IN THE BASE CAMP

Finally we got some news. Carlos and the rest of the group rest now in the base camp. Yesterday they went up from camp 2 to camp 3, where they slept. They had a lot of problems, because while they were seting up the camp, a big serac near them broke and blocks of ice fell over the group. Luckily, nothing najor, some bruises and that's all, but it was very scary. This morning they went down directly from camp 3 to the base camp, where they are now. Tomorrow Carlos will tell us more about this ascent to camp 3. They have now completed their acclimatation process, and they will do a summit attempt in the next days.

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Annapurna is the name of (refers to) a series of peaks in the Himalaya range, a long massif which highest point, Annapurna I (8091m), is the 10th highest summit in the world.

Annapurna is a Sanskrit name meaning Goddess of the Harvests.

Annapurna I was the first 8000m peak to be climbed. Louis Lachenal and Maurice Herzog, as part of a French expedition led by Maurice Herzog, reached the summit on June 3th 1950 via the north face.

East Annapurna (8026m) was the first 8000m peak to be climbed by an Spanish team (J.M. Anglada, E Civis & J. Pons on 1974) It was also the first of these peaks to be climbed in winter (Jerzy Kukuczka & Artur Hajzer on February 3th 1987).

Nevertheless, Annapurna is the 8000m peak with less summit success and with the sad record of having the biggest ratio of deaths/summits