Annapurna: First Summits of the Season

The first summits of the year on 8,091m Annapurna I in Nepal happened today.

Cesar Rosales, from Peru but with the Italian CAI Biella team, topped out this morning at 9:30 am local time, according to journalist Alessandro Filippini.

Cesar Rosales.

Cesar Rosales. Photo: Alessandro Filippini/Facebook

 

According to Mingma G from Imagine Nepal, team members Dipan Gurung, Phinjo Dorjee Sherpa, both from Nepal, and Zhao YiYi from China have also summited. An earlier attempt on March 26 was called off due to harsh weather above 7,500m. The team has been acclimatizing since March 10.

Zhao YiYi, Dipan Gurung and Phinjo Dorjee Sherpa from the Imagine Nepal team.

Zhao YiYi, Dipan Gurung, and Phinjo Dorjee Sherpa from the Imagine Nepal team. Photo: Mingma G

Kris Annapurna

KrisAnnapurna is a writer with ExplorersWeb.

Kris has been writing about history and tales in alpinism, news, mountaineering, and news updates in the Himalaya, Karakoram, etc., for with ExplorersWeb since 2021. Prior to that, Kris worked as a real estate agent, interpreter, and translator in criminal law. Now based in Madrid, Spain, she was born and raised in Hungary.