원정 개요

Alpine-style ascent. Originally planned N Face attempt, switched to NW Ridge after avalanching on route.


Collister - 15 Oct 78

No camps above base - just took 1 tent with us - reached 23,000 feet on 30 Sept and technically quite easy - would have reached summit (via original route of North Face to West Ridge and were just below Annapurna IV on the ridge) in 3 more days. But slab avalanching created by wind off Annapurna IV forced retreat.

No accidents or illness
Left BC


Shailendra Raj Sharma, Tourism - 10 Oct 78

Abandoned after reaching 23,000 ft on 2 Oct because weather very bad - left BC 5 Oct for KTM - all well.


Isherwood - 28 Aug 78

British Annapurna II Expedition did not mention fact it's new route in early stories.

Route: North Face to a col and then to West Ridge - so more direct route to summit - possibly a route farther east which does not get on to West Ridge at all.

Leave 31 Aug, confirmed 30 Aug
No Sherpas, no oxygen
BC at 17,000 feet above Pisang on glacier that feeds Pisang.

Perhaps 1 fixed camp at 20,000-21,000 ft - acclimatise by carrying loads up to it for few days and from there carry light tent.

Arrive BC about 12 Sept (not to Pokhara) summit end Sept, 1st week Oct
public bus to Dumre on KTM-Pokhara road.