A First Descent on India’s Meru Central

Tiphaine Dupérier and Boris Langenstein pull off another small-scale big-mountain descent.

Boris Langenstein on the first ski descent of India’s Meru Central. Photo: Tiphaine Duperier

On October 18th, Tiphaine Dupérier and Boris Langenstein skied a first descent down the West Face of Meru Central ( in India’s Garhwal Himalaya. Meru Central, 6,310 m (20,700 ft), is sandwiched between the taller Meru South, 6,660 m (21,850 ft), and Meru North, 6,450 m (21,160 ft). According to Dupérier in an interview, she and Langenstein, longtime…

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