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High point at 6555m at southeast side of the Dome.

Two members, Riggs and Clement, went first to Annapurna IV and made BC at 4573m on 16 September. They were confined to BC by one week of snowfall and occupied C1 only on the 23rd.

On 1 October, Riggs and Clement established C3 at 6555m on the southeast side of the Dome. From there they saw ahead of them a small face and walked over to it, gaining no altitude but discovered the impossibility of their surmounting it. They were only two climbers; their two Sherpas did not go above C2, which had already meant that they had taken a long time to move up the mountain. There was no way around this face: its south side was a vertical drop of blue ice, and its north side was heavily corniced.

They went back to C3 and decded their climb of Annapurna IV was over. On the 4th they returned to C2, on the 5th were in BC, and on the 7th left BC for their bid to scale Annapurna I.