Dhaulagiri Expedition
Overview
Overview
Dhaulagiri is Sanskrit and means white mountain. It is located in the west central part of Nepal. On the altitude scale it is number 7 and it is almost the last 8000er to be conquered. The way of the first ascent is the normal route of today. There are however two main possibilities to reach the base camp. Both ways start from south at the small town of Beni (860m which can by reached by bus from Pokhara and Kathmandu.
The eastern valley is called Kali Gandaki and was chosen by the French expedition in 1950. Today there is even an airport at Jomosom (2700m) in this valley. On the west side of this valley is Dhaulagiri on the east side is Annapurna. The alternative route is the Mayanghdi valley, which was discovered by a Swiss expedition one year later. Today there are commercial trekking tours that climb on one side reach the base camp and come back through the opposite valley. But there are also organized expeditions in Nepal that try to reach the summit.
The route between the last camp and the summit does not follow the spur and the French ridge as in 1960, but follows the ice field that heads directly to the summit and was abandoned by the first ascent because of too much snow. On the way back we descend to Tukche and then to the airport at Jomosom (2700m).
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