US EditionNepal Celebrates 75th Ascent Anniversary of Mount Annapurna
- On Tuesday, Nepal marked the 75th anniversary of the inaugural climb to the summit of Mount Annapurna, the world’s tenth tallest mountain.
- The ascent happened on June 3, 1950, when Maurice Herzog led a team with Louis Lachenal and Sonam Walung Sherpa to the summit.
- They reached the 8,091-metre summit without oxygen, marking the first successful climb above 8,000 metres and drawing global attention.
- About 200 people gathered at Annapurna’s base camp, clapping as golden statues of the three climbers were unveiled with traditional scarves.
- Local officials called it a historic event, residents thanked Herzog for fostering tourism, and Herzog died in 2012 at age 93 in France.
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Kathmandu, Jun 3 (PTI) Nepal’s Minister for Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation Badri Prasad Pandey on Tuesday said the government will make all efforts to make the country a preferred mountain and spiritual travel destination. “As mountains represent our spiritual and geographical heart, we need to conserve it for the future generation by focusing our attention to reduce the impacts of climate change,” Pandey said while inaugurating the three-d…
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Maurice Herzog, leader of the expedition, made the first ascent of the Annapurna, reaching the summit, which peaks at 8,091 meters altitude on June 3, 1950 in the company of his compatriot the guide Louis Lachenal. This ascent without oxygen, the first conquest of an additional summit...
The 75th Anniversary of The First Ascent Of An 8,000m Peak: Annapurna I » Explorersweb
Seventy-five years ago, on June 3, 1950, French mountaineers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal achieved what no climber had done before: summit an 8,000m peak. Herzog and Lachenal topped out on 8,091m Annapurna I, the 10th highest peak in the world, via the North Face and without supplemental oxygen. In west-central Nepal, Annapurna I is the highest peak in the Annapurna massif. The name Annapurna originates from Sanskrit, combining "Anna" (mean…
The equipment that allowed the one who became Minister of Sports of General de Gaulle to conquer the first summit of more than 8,000 meters will be exposed at the foot of Annapurna this month of June. 75 years later, the myth persists.
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