CARLOS PAUNER | DHAULAGIRI 2008

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Dhaulagiri, Friday, 2nd of May 2008

BACK IN THE BASE CAMP

17:00 h. Carlos Pauner and Marta Alejandre, are now back in the base camp, after many hours of descent from camp III. They are fine and they will now have a deserved rest to help them recover from the strong effort they just made. Tomorrow Carlos will tell us in detail about this complicated and succesful summit attempt. We thank all those who have followed his adventure and we hope you enjoyed it.

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Dhaulagiri is situated in the north-central part of Nepal. It is the highest peak out of the 5 ones which are part of this massif, also called Dhaulagiri.

It is the seventh highest mountain in the planet, with an altitude of 8.167 meters.

Its name comes from Sanskrit Dhavala giri, 'White Mountain'.

In 1960, after many attempts, and international group consisted of Swiss M. Eiselin, E. Forrer, A. Schelbert, M. Vaucher, JJ and H. Weber, the austrian K. Diemberger, German P. Diener and Polish G. Hajdukiewicz and A. Skoczylas, reached the summit on May 13th.