Annapurna: Trekking Map & Complete Guide,
comprehensive illustrated handbook for the Annapurna treks with a detailed
1:125,000 fold-out map and over 160 colour photographs.
The guide comes packed with exhaustive day-by-day description of the Everest
trails:
Annapurna Circuit,
Annapurna Sanctuary
Annapurna Short Treks
There is, in addition, practical advice on planning and organizing the trek
with a chapter on how to tackle medical emergencies.
Comprehensive, illustrated guidebook on treks in the Annapurna region of Nepal
that comes with a detailed foldout map. «The best trail guide (for the
Annapurna Circuit)», recommends `Backpacker` magazine. With over 25 maps
(besides the foldout map at the back) and some 160 color photographs, the
guide comes packed with exhaustive, day-by-day description of the Annapurna
Circuit and Sanctuary trails.
There is in addition practical advice on planning and budgeting the treks plus
background reading on the varied peoples who live in the Annapurna region and
an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, the religion they mostly practice. The
guidebook also has a chapter on the fascinating story of the 1950 epic French
ascent of Annapurna I, the first `eight-thousander` ever climbed.