Dhaulagiri, located in Nepal, is the seventh highest mountain in the world at 8,167 metres above sea level, and the highest mountain within the borders of a single country. Dhaulagiri I is also the hi
Aerial view of Dhaulagiri I from the southwest.
The unclimbed South Face of Dhaulagiri, seen from Poon Hill
Dhaulagiri I in October 2002. The northeast ridge is the left skyline.
Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev was a Russian-born Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m —without supplemental oxygen. From 1989 through 1997, he