Annapurna

\nCategory:Mountains of Nepal\n{| border="1" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="5" align="right" width="305" style="margin-left:3px"\n!bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2|Annapurna\n|-\n|align=center colspan=2|
Annapurna I and South from Poon Hill\n|-\n|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Elevation:||8,091 metres (26,545 feet)\n|-\n|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Latitude:||28° 35′ N\n|-\n|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Longitude:||83° 57′ E\n|-\n|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Location:||Nepal\n|-\n|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Range:||Himalayas\n|-\n|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|First ascent:||1950 by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal\n|-\n|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Easiest route:||glacier/snow/ice climb\n|}\n Annapurna is a 55-km-long massif whose highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8,091 m (26,538 ft), making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the "eight-thousanders". Annapurna is a Sanskrit name which is translated as Goddess of the Harvests. The Annapurna massif contains six major peaks:\n{| border=0\n|-\n|Annapurna I ||8,091 m. ||26,545 ft. \n|-\n|Annapurna II ||7,937 m. ||26,040 ft.\n|-\n|Annapurna III ||7,555 m. ||24,786 ft.\n|-\n|Annapurna IV ||7,525 m. ||24,688 ft.\n|-\n|Gangapurna ||7,455 m. ||24,457 ft.\n|-\n|Annapurna South||7,219 m. ||23,684 ft.\n|} Annapurna I was the first 8,000 metre peak to be climbed. Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, of a French expedition, reached the summit on June 3 1950.

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\n* Annapurna on Peakware - photos \nCategory:Eight-thousanders

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\nIn Hinduism, Annapurna is a goddess of fertility and agriculture and an avatar of Durgha.\n----\nAnnapurna also refers to some breath-oriented techniques of meditation. \n