Annapurna I is the 10th-highest of the 14 eight-thousand-metre summits in the world, although the different peaks which make up the Annapurna massif mean that it is ranked as one of the most dangerous mountains to climb anywhere on earth.
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Mountaineers Jordi Pons, Josep Manuel Anglada and Emili Civis scaled on 29 April 1974 the virgin summit of Annapurna East (8,026 m - Nepal) to become the first Catalan climbers, and indeed the first from anywhere in Spain, together with Xavi Pérez, Antoni Villena, Marià Anglada, Manuel Martín, Enric Benavent and Eduard Blanchard, to climb a peak of more than eight thousand metres.
Annapurna I is the 10th-highest of the 14 eight-thousand-metre summits in the world, although the different peaks which make up the Annapurna massif mean that it is ranked as one of the most dangerous mountains to climb anywhere on earth.



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