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Avalanche on the Pisang

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Date: 13/11/1994

On 13 November 1994, eleven mountaineers were killed when they were swept away by an avalanche just a few metres from the summit of Pisang (6,091 m), a fairly popular trekking peak along the Annapurna Circuit. The climbers were all German, apart from one Swiss woman and one Sherpa.

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