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BC above Modi Khola on East Face
C1 at snow ramp on East Face
C2 on East Face.

C3 pitched 23 Oct, then snow avalanche came and not occupied till 1 week later. 7th Nov Kim and Lee Hag-Young slept in C5 and 8th Nov Kim and Lee making route beyond C5 and while doing this Kim fell 50-100m; Lee returned to C4 when other members were. 9th Nov 4 members slept again in C4 hoping for helicopter search but helicopter cannot go that high and no search on the ground also. Body not seen. 10th Nov 4 members go down C1; climb now finished.

C1-C3 1400m
C3-C4 1200m
C4-C5 150m
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2350m fixed rope on rock in snow which made climbing difficult.

While climbing ridge strong wind and much new snow falling - on face much avalanching ("continuous avalanche" says Yu).


Korean Climber Dies
By Elizabeth Hawley

Kathmandu, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A South Korean mountaineerer fell to his death on November 8 while climbing in the Nepalese Himalaya, Nepal's tourism ministry announced today.

The climber was a member of a nine-man South Korean expedition to a 7647 meter (25,089-foot) peak in the Annapurna massif; the peak is widely known as Fang but officially named Varaha Shikhar.

According to the ministry's report, Kim Yea-Hoon, a 25-year-old employee of a mountaineering-equipment company, who lived in Kwangmyung, plunged 50 meters (165 feet) down Fang's slopes from an altitude of 7200 meters (about 23,600 ft) on November 8. He died from his injuries the next day.

The expedition abandoned their attempt to scale Fang, the ministry, said because of the death of their teammate and are on their way back to Kathmandu.

If they had been successful, they would have been the first Koreans to summit Fang and the first mountaineers from any nation to succeed in the autumn season. The mountain is considered to be very difficult to climb, and its summit has been reached only once, by an Austrian team in the spring of 1980 on an entirely different route from the Koreans eastern approach.

Kim was unmarried. His team was led by Yu Jae-Hyung from Chuncheon.