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Marco Dalla Longa led a large
Italian expedition of twelve members to Nanda Devi East Summit in 2005. They approached the peak from Munsyari and the Milam valley. Camps were set up to 5400m. The Italian team made good progress on Nanda Devi East, through the central pillar on the east face. They were
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Nanda Devi East is the lower eastern summit of the twin peaks of Nanda Devi, the two-peaked massif forming a 2-kilometre-long ridge, oriented east to west. The western summit is higher, and the eastern summit called Nanda Devi East is also locally referred to as
Sunanda Devi. Together the peaks are
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In 1978, David
Hopkins led the British Gharwal Himalayan Expedition which attempted to summit Nanda Devi East from the southwest face, transverse to the main summit of Nanda Devi and descend the south face of the main peak. This expedition was plagued by problems, notably the death of Ben Beattie,
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proceeding towards the summit when a long spell of bad weather from 9 to 18 September made them sit up at the higher camps. Then tragedy struck the
Italian team on Nanda Devi. Expedition leader Marco Dalla Longa died suddenly. He died by a coma stroke on 24 September. The team's doctor suspected
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gorge, one of the deepest in the world. No humans live in the Park which has remained more or less intact because of its rugged inaccessibility. It has a very diverse flora and is the habitat of several endangered mammals, among them the
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was a part of the support team; he and Louis Dubost climbed Nanda Devi East to look for the missing pair. Tenzing later stated that it was the most difficult climb of his life, even more difficult than
Everest.
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A four-member Polish expedition led by Adam Karpiński climbed the Nanda Devi East peak in 1939 from
Longstaff Col which is the standard route on the peak. The summit party was Jakub Bujak and Janusz Klarner.
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On June 27, 2019 (on the 80th anniversary of the first Polish expedition to Nanda Devi East) members of the Polish expedition - Jarosław
Gawrysiak and Wojciech Flaczyński climbed the Nanda Devi East.
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are some of the most spectacular wilderness areas in the
Himalayas. It is dominated by the peaks of Nanda Devi and Nanda Devi East of India's second highest mountain which is approached through the
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In 1951 a French expedition attempted to traverse the ridge between Nanda Devi and Nanda Devi East for the first time, resulting in the death of two members.
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expedition in 1981 but the mountaineers in this last case did not survive to tell the story. The standard approach to the south ridge route is from the
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