원정 개요

Yang, Rao, Pemba and Chumbe left C4 at 10 pm on 19 April and they got to the top at 8 am on 20 April. They stayed on summit for about 30 minutes, then descended to C4 at 11 am, rested there for a while, then went down to C1 where they arrived at about 4 pm. Next day 21 April to BC. The summit day weather was good, no clouds. The Chinese team was followed by the two Indian climbers and their Sherpas and also the American woman with her Sherpas.

Snow conditions between C2 and C4 were deep snow; at some places it was waist-deep.


Note: Several photos and comments have surfaced that give doubts to the status of all the summiters on 20 April 2012 for Annapurna I.

One set of photos show the Indian team of Debasish Biswas and Basanta Singha Roy standing 50-60m below the top of the summit ridge with a climber dressed in red climbing towards the summit ridge high in the background.

Another set of photos show the Chinese team of Yang Chun-Feng and Rao Jian-Feng (dressed in red) near the crest of the summit ridge. One Chinese and two Sherpas are shown on top of the crest and one Chinese and one Sherpa are shown as stopping below the crest. It also appears that the Chinese team did not proceed along the crest of the summit ridge to the true summit that is 20-50m further away in an upwardly horizontal direction.

The widow of Rao states that her husband told her that Rao summited, but not Yang. Both Rao and Yao were killed in June 2013 when the base camp at Nanga Parbat was attacked by terrorists.

Other comments put the American team of Cleo Weidlich and her Sherpa either above or below the Indian team, but not at the summit ridge.

For the above reasons, these ascents are being marked as "disputed."


Billi Bierling - 25 March 2105

Chang Dawa Sherpa told Billi Bierling that Chang Dawa, Kami Sherpa, Jian-Feng Rao and Pecchumbe Sherpa reached the true summit, while all others stopped further down the mountain. Chang Dawa had photos of them on the true summit.