South Face of Annapurna

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big wall climbing route mountain face

The South Face of Annapurna is a notoriously steep and dangerous Himalayan wall, famed as one of high-altitude mountaineering’s most formidable and historic big-wall challenges.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Annapurna South Face	8
South Face of Annapurna canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2891303 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: South Face of Annapurna
Context triple: [Chris Bonington, notableAscent, South Face of Annapurna]

A. North Ridge of K2
The North Ridge of K2 is a major, technically demanding climbing route on the world’s second-highest mountain, rising from the Chinese side and known for its extreme altitude, exposure, and objective hazards.
B. Grandes Jorasses north face
The Grandes Jorasses north face is a legendary, extremely steep alpine wall in the Mont Blanc massif, renowned as one of the most challenging and iconic north faces in the Alps.
C. Watzmann East Face
Watzmann East Face is a towering, notoriously steep rock wall in the Bavarian Alps, famed as one of the highest and most challenging alpine faces in Germany.
D. Aiguille de Bionnassay north face
The Aiguille de Bionnassay north face is a steep, glaciated alpine wall in the Mont Blanc massif, renowned among mountaineers for its challenging ice and mixed climbing routes.
E. Broad Peak
Broad Peak is one of the world’s highest mountains, an 8,000-meter-class peak in the Karakoram range on the border of Pakistan and China, renowned for its broad, extended summit ridge.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: South Face of Annapurna
Target entity description: The South Face of Annapurna is a notoriously steep and dangerous Himalayan wall, famed as one of high-altitude mountaineering’s most formidable and historic big-wall challenges.

A. North Ridge of K2
The North Ridge of K2 is a major, technically demanding climbing route on the world’s second-highest mountain, rising from the Chinese side and known for its extreme altitude, exposure, and objective hazards.
B. Grandes Jorasses north face
The Grandes Jorasses north face is a legendary, extremely steep alpine wall in the Mont Blanc massif, renowned as one of the most challenging and iconic north faces in the Alps.
C. Watzmann East Face
Watzmann East Face is a towering, notoriously steep rock wall in the Bavarian Alps, famed as one of the highest and most challenging alpine faces in Germany.
D. Aiguille de Bionnassay north face
The Aiguille de Bionnassay north face is a steep, glaciated alpine wall in the Mont Blanc massif, renowned among mountaineers for its challenging ice and mixed climbing routes.
E. Broad Peak
Broad Peak is one of the world’s highest mountains, an 8,000-meter-class peak in the Karakoram range on the border of Pakistan and China, renowned for its broad, extended summit ridge.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	big wall climbing route ⓘ mountain face ⓘ
activity	expedition climbing ⓘ high-altitude mountaineering ⓘ
climbingSeason	post-monsoon ⓘ pre-monsoon ⓘ
climbingStyle	siege-style expedition climbing on first ascent ⓘ
country	Nepal ⓘ
difficulty	very high technical difficulty ⓘ
elevation	about 8091 metres at summit ⓘ
feature	complex glaciated terrain ⓘ huge rock and ice buttresses ⓘ long, committing routes ⓘ
firstAscentBy	Chris Bonington ⓘ linked to: Sir Chris Bonington Don Whillans ⓘ Dougal Haston ⓘ Ian Clough ⓘ Martin Boysen ⓘ Mick Burke ⓘ Nick Estcourt ⓘ
firstAscentExpedition	1970 British Annapurna South Face Expedition ⓘ
firstAscentYear	1970 ⓘ
firstSummiters	Don Whillans ⓘ Dougal Haston ⓘ
hazard	avalanches ⓘ extreme cold ⓘ high altitude ⓘ rockfall ⓘ serac fall ⓘ severe storms ⓘ
knownAs	one of the most dangerous big walls in high-altitude mountaineering ⓘ one of the most difficult Himalayan faces ⓘ
locatedIn	Annapurna Massif ⓘ linked to: Annapurna Gandaki Province ⓘ Himalayas ⓘ Nepal ⓘ
mountainRange	Himalayas ⓘ
notableFor	extreme steepness ⓘ high objective danger ⓘ high-altitude big-wall climbing ⓘ technical mixed and ice climbing ⓘ
onContinent	Asia ⓘ
parentPeak	Annapurna I ⓘ linked to: Annapurna
partOf	Annapurna I ⓘ linked to: Annapurna
reputation	benchmark objective for elite alpinists ⓘ historic milestone in Himalayan mountaineering ⓘ
subsequentStyle	alpine-style ascents ⓘ
verticalRelief	approximately 3000 metres ⓘ

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chris Bonington → notableAscent → South Face of Annapurna ⓘ

subject linked to: Sir Chris Bonington

Chris Bonington → hasWritten → Annapurna South Face ⓘ

subject linked to: Sir Chris Bonington