Annapurna I | 2000 N Face

A USA expedition to Annapurna I in 2000 via N Face, led by Edmund Viesturs. Summit reached on 15th April 2000. 4 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 3499
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID ANN100104
Peak ID ANN1
Year 2000
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 N Face
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality USA
Leaders Edmund Viesturs
Sponsor International Annapurna Expedition
Success 1 False
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 -
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries Canada, Finland
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2000-04-08
Summit Date 2000-04-15
Summit Time -
Summit Days 7
Total Days 17
Termination Date 2000-04-25
Termination Reason 5
Termination Notes Abandoned at 5900m due to extreme avalanche danger
High Point (m) 5900
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 2
Fixed Rope (m) 150
Total Members 4
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 0
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired True
O2 Used False
O2 None True
O2 Climb False
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(08/04,4000m),C1(11/04,5000m),C2(13/04,5800m),xxx(15/04,5900m)
Route Notes BC at normal side C2 just west of French 1950 route High point at North Face just above C2. 4-5 days after evacuating C2 huge avalanche threw snow on C1 and covered entire route in big area with big ice blocks. 15th April went 100m above C2 to look at route above and decided too big a danger of avalanching to be acceptable and went down to BC that day. Hoped to see feasible alternative route to the east but when biggest avalanche any of this team had ever seen by far came, they abandoned any idea of any route on North Face. Want to go back to North Face?: "No" emphatically said Viesturs and others. [There is] not a line that is not threatened by seracs: very different from pictures of 1950 French climb. Viesturs wants to go back to Annapurna, perhaps by Messner route on North Face in spring 1985 which is probably safest route on this mountain.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Asian Trekking
Commercial Route -
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference -
Primary ID -
Checksum 2456575
Year 2000
Summit Success False
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) n face

Members

4 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Neal Jay Beidleman M 1959 USA Climber Aspen, Colorado Engineer Details Other expeditions
Eero Veikka Juhani Gustafsson M 1968 Finland Climber Espoo, Helsinki, Finland Alpinist Details Other expeditions
Michael Kennedy M 1952 Canada Climber Carbondale, Colorado Writer Details Other expeditions
Edmund Karl (Ed) Viesturs M 1959 USA Leader Seattle, Washington Alpine guide Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
ANN100104 HIGH - - - 219:72 (Feb 2001) -