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February 6, 2012
elevation: 8,091 metres (26,545 feet)
location: Nepal
range: Himalaya
coordinates: s: 28°35' N 83°57' E
first ascent: 1950 by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal
Annapurna
Annapurna is a series of peaks in the Himalaya, a 55-km-long massif whose highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8,091 m (26,538 ft), making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the "eight-thousanders". Annapurna is a Sanskrit name which is translated as Goddess of the Harvests.

The Annapurna massif contains six major peaks:
Annapurna I 8,091 m. 26,545 ft.
Annapurna II 7,937 m. 26,040 ft.
Annapurna III 7,555 m. 24,786 ft.
Annapurna IV 7,525 m. 24,688 ft.
Gangapurna 7,455 m. 24,457 ft.
Annapurna South 7,219 m. 23,684 ft.

Annapurna I was the first 8,000 metre peak to be climbed. Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, of a French expedition, reached the summit on June 3, 1950.

The south face of Annapurna was first climbed in 1970 by a British expedition led by Chris Bonington and including the alpinist Ian Clough, who was killed by a falling ice-pillar during the descent.

On 3 February 1987, Jerzy Kukuczka and Artur Hajzer, a Polish climber, made the first ascent of a eight-thousander in winter.

 

 

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