Annapurna is an ancient Nepali language translated to “full of food” but is generally translate to “goddess of the Harvests.” Annapurna is a goddess of fertility and agriculture and an avatar of Durga. The entire massif and surrounding areas preserved within the 7629 square kilometers (2,946 sq mile) Annapurna conservation Area, the first conservation area in Nepal, remained the largest conservation in Nepal. The Annapurna conservation Area is home to several world-class treks, including the Annapurna circuit.

Annapurna is one of the world’s most technical mountains; it has a lousy fatality to summit ratio. Climbing Annapurna is a severe adventure and one of the most difficult 8000m peaks in the world. But there is hope that a new route was used this year and will be the best and safest route to climb moving forward. The South Face of Annapurna is one of the largest and steepest faces in the world. The looks are fantastic in size and difficulty. The south face is 3000 feet higher than the Southwest face of Mt. Everest. The South Face of Annapurna is relatively free of the terrible avalanche hazards that plague the standard routes on the North Face of the mountain. Despite the incredible difficulty, the south face is a logical route to the summit of Mt. Annapurna.

Annapurna I (8091m/26,545ft.) is the 10th highest mountain globally and the eighth highest mountain in Nepal. Annapurna I is the lowest 8000m peak but is one of the most technical climbing peaks in the Himalayas. Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachine climbed Annapurna Expedition on June 03rd, 1950. It was not until 1970. Annapurna Expedition was summated again from its Northwest Ridge. The Annapurna massif contains six major peaks, Annapurna I (8091m/26,040ft) Annapurna III (7555m/24,786ft) Annapurna IV (7525m/24,688ft) Gangapurna (7455m/24,457ft) Annapurna South (7219m/23,684ft). Climbing Annapurna Expedition is hard for untrained mountaineers, guides due to the snow slope.

Destination Holiday Trek provides a comprehensive service organizing all necessary permits, climbing documentation, logistics, including airfares, ground transportation, porters, food along the trek, and other individual services required by clients. DHT advises clients to use a personal climbing Sherpa guide (which we will provide) to help you reach the summit. Your personal climbing Sherpa will set up camp I, camp II, and center III with food provisions, fuel, and oxygen and guide the client on summit day.

After arriving in Kathmandu, you will have a day of preparations and briefing for your climbing permit. Following that, you will be flying to Pokhara and then driving to tatopani by jeep. From here, you will be trekking to Annapurna South base camp through wild jungles; along the way, you will pass through villages such as Lete and Mirsiti Khola. After having a few days rest and receive basic training from your DHT climbing Sherpa guide, you will be starting your acclimatization period up to camp I, II, and III.

Base camp to camp II is a very technical section of the route. It consists of an unstable and broken glacier with dangling pinnacle that can come crashing down at any time. The climb does with three camps. It takes 2 an hours to get from Annapurna Base Camp (ABC) to the bottom of the rise. The start of the route is a steep 70-degree section that requires 500m of fixed rope. Here is the objective hazard area of the falling pinnacle. From camp I to cam II the climbing is slightly less steep but is still tricky with great objective avalanche danger. This section requires roughly 1000m of fixed rope. Camp II’s route to camp III requires switchback navigation on the snowfield between the broken glaciers’s Ridges. The summit is on an exposed ridge and does not require fixed ropes, and it is doing as a free ascent.