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Zaragoza, Tuesday, 27th of April 2010

 

STILL GOING UP!


Good morning everybody. We have not had direct communication with Carlos yet. But we have spoken with Javier Pérez at 9:40 a.m. Spanish time. He is at the Annapurna base camp. From there, Javier can watch the images of the television camera from the Korean expedition, placed in camp 1. He can see climbers still going up. There are two climbers going first, followed by a group of 5 people (the Koreans) and after them, other mountaneers. He cannot see who they are. Wind is blowing and apparently there is quite a lot of fresh snow and they go slow breaking trail. We will keep you updated when we have more news. It is being a bit late now and this summit is starting to get complicated.

 



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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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