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3 unusual facts about Annapurna


Annapurna

Annapurna III was first climbed in 1961 by an Indian expedition led by Capt. Mohan Singh Kohli via the Northeast Face.

Arlene Blum

She is best known for leading an all-woman ascent of Annapurna (I), a climb that was also the first successful American ascent.

In 1978, she organized a team of thirteen women to climb Annapurna (I) in Nepal which, until then, had been climbed by only eight people (all men).


Andrew Lock

Lock has climbed with many of the world’s best, including Anatoli Boukreev (K2 in 1993), Göran Kropp (Broad Peak in 1994), Doug Scott and Wojciech Kurtyka (Nanga Parbat Mazeno Ridge in 1995) & Ivan Vallejo and Inaki Ochoa (Annapurna 2007).

D. Madhusudhana Rao

He owned the film production houses named Annapurna pictures Limited and Chakravarthi Chithra based in Chennai.

Maurice Herzog

Annapurna was not climbed again until 1970, when the French north face route was climbed by a British Army expedition, simultaneously with an ascent of the south face by an expedition led by British climber Chris Bonington.

Mustang District

In addition to trekking routes through the Lo Kingdom ("Upper Mustang") and along the Annapurna Circuit in lower Mustang, the district is famous for the springs and village of Muktinath (a popular Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage site), apples, and Marpha brandy.

Prashant Tamang

In Pokhara (Nepal), Radio Annapurna (93.4 MHz) campaigned for collecting donation and the collected sum of NRs.

Pyramidula kuznetsovi

This species is known only from four closely grouped locations in the valley of the Kali Gandaki River between Dhaulagiri and Annapurna mountains, Mustang District of Nepal.

Ramprasad Sen

Another popular story is told of Ramprasad's vision of goddess Annapurna of Varanasi.

Sambha gompa

It is about within Tukuche town on the Annapurna trekking route/ gravel road from Pokhara to Jomsom in the Dhaulagiri zone.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Charlize Theron will star in and produce an American remake of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance with her production company Denver & Delilah Films and has partnered with both CJ Entertainment and Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures.

Tatipaka

UFO Moviez (Digital Cinema Company) has been installed in Annapurna Theatre with satellite equipment.

Tent peg

Other uses of tent pegs are as improvised climbing pitons, for example in the siege of the Sogdian Rock and Jean-Christophe Lafaille's self rescue on Annapurna.

The Ascent of Rum Doodle

It is a parody of the non-fictional chronicles of mountaineering expeditions (notably H. W. Tilman's account of the ascent of Nanda Devi and Maurice Herzog's book Annapurna chronicling the first ascent of Annapurna in Nepal) that were popular during the 1950s, as many of the world's highest peaks were climbed for the first time.


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