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Zaragoza, Monday, 29th of March 2010

 

TOWARDS POKHARA

 

Carlos, Javier and the rest of the group arrived in Kathmandu last Thursday evening. On Friday and Saturday they worked on preparing last minute matters. They made all the necessary paper work including the climbing permits to Annapurna. They checked the material, divided the cargo and did the last shopping. They also took time to visit an orphanage in Kathmandu where there are several children backed by The Association Kumara from Zaragoza.
On Sunday they were going to fly to Pokhara but they delayed the flight until Monday. This change on the plans is due to the doubts they have regarding the access to the base camp by foot. They may have to take a helicopter. When they land in Pokhara they will have more information about their coming journey.

 



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annapurna

 

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

 

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