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catbyte

(34,454 posts) Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:32 AM Feb 2021

Annapurna Avalanche

No hikers you hear and see were injured by the shockwave.

Filmed from Kapuche Lake, Nepal

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Annapurna Avalanche (Original Post) catbyte Feb 2021 OP

Perhaps the most dangerous of all the 8000 Meter peaks to climb. kairos12 Feb 2021 #1

Absolutely. That peak and K2 are so much more dangerous than Everest. catbyte Feb 2021 #2

How remarkable is it that Annapurna was the first kairos12 Feb 2021 #3

kairos12

(12,873 posts)

1. Perhaps the most dangerous of all the 8000 Meter peaks to climb.

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Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:35 AM

Feb 2021

catbyte

(34,454 posts)

2. Absolutely. That peak and K2 are so much more dangerous than Everest.

Reply to kairos12 (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:50 AM

Feb 2021

kairos12

(12,873 posts)

3. How remarkable is it that Annapurna was the first

Reply to catbyte (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 10, 2021, 01:43 PM

Feb 2021

8000 Meter Mountain climbed to its summit.

It ranks up there with the American West Ridge Traverse of Everest in 1963 as one of the singular feats of climbing.

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