Alpine Ramble Story
Retro: 1987 Manaslu Team
Gorkha • 8,163 m
Read time
5 minutes
Elevation gain
+3,100 m
Category
retro
Analog maps, wool layers, and summit radios crackling—how a French team threaded a narrow window.
Pulled from the Alpine Ramble archives: photographs and handwritten route notes from a 1987 French expedition that put two climbers on Manaslu’s summit via the northeast ridge.
No satellite forecasts, no fixed ropes above Camp 3—just relentless load carries and a final dash when the monsoon paused for seventy-two hours.
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