Annapurna

Indian mountaineer Anaug Maloo was stranded nearly 200 feet down a crevasse for three days, until a team of rescuers overcame improbable odds to save him. (From Outside Online)

A veteran climber is dead, another is missing, and multiple others are lucky to be alive after a tragic few days in the Himalayas

The Moonwalk Traverse and Saraghrar’s Northwest Face, as well as Annapurna III’s Southeast Ridge, will be awarded in Briançon, France next month.

These famous climbing accidents are equal parts gripping and inspiring. If any reader should someday find themself in such a desperate situation, we hope they too will remember how others endured, living to climb another day.

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And Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita and Dawa Yangzum Sherpa became the first two Nepali women to climb Annapurna without using supplementary oxygen.

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