CARLOS PAUNER | ANNAPURNA 2010

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Annapurna, Thursday, 8th of April 2010

CAMP 2

Carlos and Javier are already in Camp 2, at 5.600 meters. The route from camp 1 to camp 2 was in better conditions today, and they arrived with no problems. They are going to spend the night in this camp and tomorrow early in the morning they will start going down to the base camp. This way, they are going to get a first acclimatazion stage, as they had planned. Weather forecast informs about bad weather coming for the next 3 or 4 days. They will use these days to recover and to rest in the base camp before they leave to the high camps again.

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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