Annapurna is a section of which mountain range?
1950 French Annapurna expedition return alive, though with very severe injuries following frostbite. Annapurna became the highest mountain to have been ascended to its summit, exceeding that of the 1936 expedition to Nanda Devi, and the mountain was the first eight-thousander to be climbed. The feat was a great achievement for French mountaineering and caught the public imagination with front-page coverage in a best-selling issue of "Paris Match". Herzog wrote an immensely popular book "Annapurna" full of vivid descriptions of heroic endeavour and anguished suffering – but which much later became criticised for being too self-serving. Annapurna is in Eastern Himalaya in Nepal and
Annapurna II Annapurna II Annapurna II is part of the Annapurna mountain range, and is the eastern anchor of the range. It was first climbed in 1960 by a British/Indian/Nepalese team led by J. O. M. Roberts via the West Ridge, approached from the north. The summit party comprised Richard Grant, Chris Bonington, and Sherpa Ang Nyima. In terms of elevation, isolation (distance to a higher summit, namely Annapurna I East Peak, ) and prominence (), Annapurna II does not rank far behind Annapurna I Main, which serves as the western anchor. It is a fully independent peak, despite the close association