CARLOS PAUNER | ANNAPURNA 2010

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Zaragoza, Sunday, 25th of April 2010

SUMMIT PUSH: CAMP 3

At around one o'clock in the afternoon Spanish time Carlos called from camp 3 at 6.600 meters. This morning Carlos, Juanito and Tolo, together with Javier left camp 2 to go up to camp 3. Javier had trouble with one of his crampons and decided to return to camp 2. All members of the Koean expedition are also in this camp 2. It seems Javier will have to go down to the base camp tomorrow.
For Carlos, Juanito and Tolo, the summit push continues. Tomorrow they will try to go up to camp 4 and spend the night there. If they can do this, they will try to reach the summit on Tuesday 27th in the morning.

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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