Dhauligiri 8,167 metres

Dhauligiri from Poon Hill	Dhauligiri was first climbed by a Swiss expedition led by Max Eiseln. The expedition used a light aircraft to fly expedition members and their equipment to the North Col. amongst the members was Kurt Diemburger, now a legendary mountaineer.
On a clear day you can even see Dhauligiri from Pokhara.	A view of Dhauligiri when descending the Thorung La to Muktinath

List of Ascents

1960	NE Ridge, from NE Col	AUT	Albin Schelbert, x ,Ernst Forrer, SUI , Hugo Weber, x , Kurt Diemberger, AUT , Michel Vaucher, SUI , Nyima Dorje & Nawang Dorji, NEP , Peter Diener, x
1970	NE Ridge	JPN	Lhakpa Tensing, NPL ,Tetsuji Kawada, JPN
1973	NE Ridge	USA	John Roskelley, USA ,Louis Reichardt, USA , Nawang Samden, NPL
1978	South Buttress	JPN	Ang Kami, NPL ,Seiji Shimuzu, JPN , Tatsuji Shigeno, JPN , Tokiashi Koyayashi, JPN , Yasuji Kato, Hiroshi Yoshino, JPN
1978	SE Ridge	JPN	6 members, JPN
1979	NE Ridge	ESP	Ang Riti, NPL ,Inaki Galdaya, Javier Garaoya, ESP , Jordi Pons, Gerardo Plaza, ESP
1980	SE Ridge	GBR	Alex MacIntyre, GBR ,Ludwik Wilczyczynski, POL , Rene Ghilini, FRA , Wojciech Kurtyka, POL
1981	First ascent route	GBR	Adrian Burgess, GBR ,Alan Burgess, GBR
1981	NE Ridge (normal)	JPN	Hironobu Kamuro, JPN
1982	Standard NE ridge	BEL	Jan van Hees, BEL ,Lutgaarde Vivijs, BEL , Marnix Lefever, BEL , Philip Cornelissen, BEL , Rudy van Snick, BEL , Sherpa Ang Jangbo, NPL , Sherpa Ang Ritra, NPL
1982	Pear Route	JPN	Kozu Komatsu, JPN ,Noboru Yamada, JPN , Yasuhira Saito, JPN
1982	N E Ridge	JPN	Akio Koizumi, JPN ,Sherpa Wangdu, NPL
1983	NE col, normal route	POL	Jacek Jezierski, POL ,Miroslaw Gardzielewski, POL , Tadeusz Laukajtys, POL , Waclaw Otreba, POL
1984	S W ridge	FRA	Jean-Noel Roche, FRA ,Pierre Beghin, FRA
1984	W Face & NW Ridge	CSK	Jan Simon, CSK ,Jaromir Stejskal, CSK , Karel Jakes, CSK
1985	E Face, NE Ridge, N Face	SUI	Erhard Loretan, SUI ,Jean Troillet, SUI , Pierre-Alain Steiner, SUI
1985	NE ridge 'Normal route'	POL	Andrzej Czok, POL ,Jerzy Kukuczka, POL
1985	NE Ridge	AUT	Hans Kammerlander, AUT ,Reinhold Messner, AUT
1986	NE ridge	DEU	Gunther Harter, DEU ,Lutz Pflegung, DEU , Sepp Hirtreiter, DEU , Willi Odenthal, DEU
1987	E Face & NE Ridge	YUG	Dr Iztok Tomazin, YUG ,Marjan Kregar, YUG
1987	NE ridge	USA	Colin Grissom, USA ,John Culberson, USA , Kitty Calhoun, USA
1987	Not Known	FRA	Marc Batard, FRA ,Sundare Sherpa, NPL
1988	SW buttress	SUN	Kazbek Valiev, SUN ,Yuri Moiseev, SUN , Zoltan Demjan, CSK
1989	NE ridge	ITA	Fausto Destefani, ITA ,Sergio Martini, ITA
1989	NE col - NE ridge	AUT	Sepp Inhoger, AUT
1990	NE Ridge	BEL	Ingrid Baeyens, BEL ,Ralf Dujmovits, GER
1990	NE ridge	POL	Krzysztof Wielicki, POL
1990	NE ridge	ESP	Carlos Buhler, ESP ,Dainius Makauska, LTV , George Lowe, USA , Nuru Sherpa, NPL
1990	NE Ridge	SUI	Christoph Pfistner, SUI ,Hans Ruedi Roesti, SUI , Henri Willi, SUI , Karl Kobler, SUI , Manuel Morales, ESP , Miguel Sanchez, ARG , Peter Rothlisberger, SUI
1990	Normal	ESP	Manuel Morales, ESP
1991	West Face New Route (S Spur)	SUN	Alexandr Savin, SUN ,Anatoli Bukreev, SUN , Andrei Tselishchev, SUN , Artur Shegai, SUN , Renat Khaibullin, SUN , Valeri Khrishchaty, SUN , Vladimir Prisyazhny, SUN , Vladimir Sugiva, SUN , Yuri Moiseev, SUN , Zaurbek Mizambekov, SUN
1991	NE Ridge	DEN	Soren Smid, DEN
1991	NE Ridge	ESP	Jordi Corominas, ESP
1991	Not recorded	JPN	Keepa Sherpa, NPL ,Koji Yokoyama, JPN , Toshihiya Nakajima, JPN
1992	N E Ridge	RUS	Alexei Guliayer, RUS ,Nikolai Smetanin, RUS , Nikolai Zakharov, RUS , Peter Kuznetsov, RUS , Valeri Kokhanov, RUS
1993	Direct N Face	RUS	Alexei Lebedikhin, RUS ,Boris Sedusov, RUS , Ivan Plotnikov, RUS , Rick Allen, co-ldr, GBR , Sergei Bogomolov, RUS , Sergei Yefimov, RUS , Valeri Pershin, RUS
1993	Normal	TIB	Akebu, TIB ,Da Chimyi, TIB , Dachung, TIB , Gyalbu, TIB , Lodue, TIB , Pemba Tashi, TIB , Ren Na, TIB , Tshering Dorjee, TIB , Wangyal, TIB
1994	NE Ridge	USA	Rich Henke, USA ,Rick Taylor, USA
1994	Not recorded	ITA	Christian Kuntner, ITA ,Joao Garcia, POR , Josef Gozdzik, ITA , Marco bianchi, ITA , Paul-Victor Amaudruz, CHE , Piotr Pustelnik, POL , Raymond D Caughron, USA
1995	NE Ridge	Defies Classification	2 others, x ,Albrecht Hammann, GER , Carlos Carsolio, MEX , Mario Kofler, SUI , Norbert Joos, SUI , Renate Schmid, SUI
1995	NE Ridge	KAZ	Anatoli Bukreev, KAZ
1996	Not recorded	SUI	Erhard Loretan, SUI ,Bart Vos, NED
1996	Not recorded	SUI	Andre Georges, SUI