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Road Of The King! Trekking The Annapurna Sanctuary In One Pair Of Trousers

22.02.12

  “Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in the face of death should remain fraternally united for life.” – Maurice Herzog, the first man ever to reach the summit of Annapurna I, writing from his hospital bed in 1951.

Part 1: Poon Hill

  Unlike Maurice Herzog, our objective is not the summit of Annapurna I. Ours, rather more modestly, is Annapurna Base Camp, where Herzog and subsequent demented mountaineers have passed through on their way to death or glory. Set in the Nepali Himalayas, ABC is at the base of an almost comically beautiful panorama, dotted with 6,000, 7,000 and 8,000-metre peaks, the concentration of which one cannot easily experience anywhere else in the world. It is the jewel of the Annapurna Sanctuary, a vast conservation area that claims lives as well as well as enriches them. Our endpoint is only 4,130 metres high rather than Herzog's 8,091, but getting even halfway is trouble enough.

Source: The Quietus

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