“I scrambled up the moraine ridge and gazed for the first time at the entire South Face of Annapurna. My own reaction was the same as Don's: the first impression was one of size - it was a really huge face, one of steepness and then, as I examined each feature through the binoculars, I realized that the Face could be broken into arêtes, ridges, gullies, separate snowfields and rock walls. This was something that we could climb, and from that moment I felt confident we had a good chance” (Chris Bonington, Annapurna South Face).