By far the longest of all the events is the Great Himal Race. This year will mark ... shorter version, linking Annapurna Base Camp with Lukla in the Khumbu. This is “just” 850 km and 41,000m ...

French climbers Louis Lachenal and Maurice Herzog were the first mountaineers in the world to summit an 8,000-meter peak - Annapurna I in 1950, three years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ...

They will update once they return home. Nilgiri North is the highest peak of the Nilgiri Himal. Legendary alpinist and Annapurna pioneer Lionel Terray and two Dutch partners first climbed it in 1967.