Little Annapurna

Little Annapurna is an 8,485-foot summit in Washington’s Alpine Lakes Wilderness, rising in The Enchantments within the Stuart Range of the Cascades. Named by the Sherpa Climbing Club of Ellensburg for the resemblance of its south face to Annapurna in the Himalaya, it carries an unusual identity that links central Washington to a famous Asian peak. The mountain stands in a rugged landscape of granite walls, alpine lakes, glacial valleys, and heavy winter snow. Its gentler north slope retains remnants of the Snow Creek Glacier, and the surrounding terrain was largely shaped during the Pleistocene, with major glacial retreat beginning about 14,000 years ago.

Washington · United States