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Ghyun Himal I 6,099 metres (20,010 ft) 29°14′39″N 83°46′55″E / 29.2441933406522°N 83.78196841649864°E / 29.2441933406522; 83.78196841649864
They were well-acclimatised to altitude, having wintered over at 5,800 metres (19,029 ft) near the base of the peak as part of the 1960–61 Silver Hut expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary. [ 7 ] Situated at a distance of 162 km (101 mi) north of the provincial capital of Biratnagar and 152 km (94 mi) northeast to Kathmandu , Ama Dablam is the ...
The peak is located at 7,177 m (23,547 ft) above sea level in the extreme northeast of Nepal and northwest of Sikkim. It is approximately 2km southwest of Kirat Chuli . Climbers ascending Kirat Chuli from the Nepal Gap, by the southwest ridge, usually traverse the summit of Nepal Peak.
Kanchenjunga South Peak is a 8,476 m high subsidiary peak of Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world. The summit is located in the Himalayan range, on the border between Nepal and India. A ridge leads north over the middle peak to the main peak of Kangchenjunga. To the east, a ridge branches off to Zemu Kang (7,730 m).
India • Nepal: 1955: Third highest peak in the world, Easternmost 8000m peak [5] 4 Lhotse "South Peak" 8,516 27,940 610 2.7 Mahalangur: Nepal • China: 1956: Part of Everest massif 5 Makalu "The Great Black" 8,485 27,838 2,378 17.2 Mahalangur
North of the Greater Himalayas in western Nepal, ~6,100 metre Tibetan Border Ranges form the Ganges-Brahmaputra divide, which the international border generally follows. South of the Greater Himalayas, Nepal has a High Mountain region of ~4,000 metre summits, then the Middle Hills and Mahabharat Range with 1,500 to 3,000 metre summits.
Chamar is the highest peak of the Sringi (or Serang) Himal, which is a subrange of the Nepalese Himalayas.Chamar and the entire Sringi Himal lie in Central Nepal, just south of the Tibetan border, between the Shyar Khola valley on the east and the Tom Khola–Trisuli Gandaki valley on the west.
Mardi Himal (Nepali: मर्दी हिमाल) is a 5,587-metre (18,330 ft) peak beneath the much more prominent Machapuchare in the Annapurna region of Nepal, from which it is separated by a 5,200 metres (17,060 ft) col. It was first summited in 1961 by Basil Goodfellow.