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Mt. Dhaulagiri
whose name means
White Mountain,
is the seventh
highest mountain
in the world. It
is an enormous
Himalayan
massif, located
in north central
Nepal. After its
discovery by the
western world in
1808, it
replaced
Ecuador’s
Chimborazo
(20,561 ft.) as
the postulated
highest mountain
in the world. It
maintained this
standing for
nearly 30 years,
until the
discovery of
Kanchanjunga,
which was then
falsely believed
to be the
world’s highest
mountain. The
mountain offers
4 camps,
starting from
the east of
Dhaulagiri Base
Camp, (5,300 m),
Camp II (6,400
m), Camp III
(7,200 m) and
Camp IV (7,500
m) Dhaulagiri
Camp IV is
considered the
most difficult
in the
expedition
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