Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck talks about his fast and impressive solo ascent up the South Face of Annapurna South (8091m, Nepal, Himalaya) that on 8 and 9 October 2013 enabled him to make the first ...

In one of the most audacious, yet perfectly executed, climbs, Ueli Steck soloed a new route on the south face of Annapurna in 2013. The new route climbs the wide depression/gully between the 1970 ...

While in the Sanctuary, take a hike to the Annapurna South Base Camp at 13,550 feet, below the near‐vertical south face of Annapurna towering more than 10,000 feet above base camp. Return to Pokara ...

In Nepal, there are 86 peaks between 7,000, and 7,999m. Some haven’t been summited for years. Today, we examine the climbing ...

Renowned South Korean mountaineer Park Young-seok would have turned 61 today. Park is the only person to have completed the ...

Success on New Route on Ama DaBlam Ukrainian climbers Mykyta Balabanov and Mykhailo Fomin enjoyed victory and solace in the Himalayas, as war continues to disru ...

The Nilgiri Himal in the Annapurna massif includes 7,061m ... summited via a small ridge on the same face. Nilgiri South (6,839m) saw its first ascent in the autumn of 1978. Led by Kazuo Mitsui ...

in the eastern regions of India, including the state of West Bengal, Annapurna Jayanti is observed in the Hindu month of ‘Chaitra’. in most of the south Indian temples, Goddess Annapurna is worshipped ...

Dr Annapurna Menon joined the Department in September 2022 after ... of interest to scholars working with postcolonial and decolonial approaches or focusing on South Asian politics, and contemporary ...