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In 1950 a French team made Annapurna the first 8,000m peak ever climbed. Three-quarters of a century on, French trekkers are rediscovering the…
By Laxman Rawal · Jun 16, 2026
Long before Everest was summited, it was a French team that broke the 8,000-metre barrier — on Annapurna. In June 1950, Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal stood on top of Annapurna I, the first of the world's fourteen 8,000m giants ever climbed, at a terrible…
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You do not need to be a climber to connect with that history. The Annapurna Base Camp trek walks you right into the Sanctuary — the glacial amphitheatre ringed by the peaks Herzog's generation pioneered — while the Annapurna Circuit loops the whole massif…
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