A Photo Gallery of Mount Dhaulagiri ( 8167m )the world's seventh highest mountain and neighbouring Peaks in the Nepal Himalaya Dhaulagiri
was first climbed by the Swiss in 1960. Its name is
derived from sanskrit; dhavala means 'white'
and giri is 'mountain'. The mountain was
sighted by British surveyors in India in the early
1800s and was mapped in 1873 but the region remained
largely unknown until a Swiss aerial Survey in 1949.
The French Annapurna expedition in 1950 had
permission to climb either Annapurna or Dhaulagiri
but decided on Annapurna after a reconnaissance of
Dhaulagiri. By 2002, 275 climbers had summited on 160
expeditions, 55 climbers having died.
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