Mount Machhapuchchhre

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Machhapuchchhre (also Machhapuchhare, Nepali माछापुच्छ्रे हिमाल Māchhāpuchchhre Himal, on German fishtail ) is a 6997 meter high mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal. He belongs to the Annapurna massif, 25 km north of Pokhara. The reason for the name fishtail can be seen at the sight of the mountain from the west, from where you can see the two peaks.

The Machhapuchchhre considered as the seat of the Buddha of Infinite Light, Amitabha, and so as the Holy Mountain.

1957 was the Englishman David Cox and Wilfrid Noyce, participants of an expedition under the direction of James Roberts, near the summit via the north ridge down to the final 50 meters. Even by then, the mountain proved to be extremely difficult. Here, however, both had to turn definitively because of the technical difficulties of the last few meters. The sacred mountain of the native population in 1964 occupied by the Nepalese king with a climbing ban, there is a rumor that this was done by excitation of the expedition leader James Roberts. In the 80s, there should have been an illegal ascent of the New Zealand Bill Denz. Since Bill Denz but on Makalu in 1983 died in an accident, it is now difficult to verify.