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This northernmost part of India had some of the highest mountain peaks in the world. Many of them are unclimbed and some of them unnamed. A large number of peaks in Ladakh are still not open for climbing due to security reasons, as this region borders Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China in the North and East and Line Of ...
The Kun Peak is a part of Nun Kun mountain massif in Ladakh, India. It is the second highest summit of the massif with elevation of 23,219 ft (7,077 metres) in the western Himalayan Range, located near the Suru valley, on the road connecting Kargil and Zanskar. [2] It is located about 61 km south of Kargil and 141 km west of Leh.
Kangju Kangri is a mountain in the Karakoram Range of Asia located in the union territory of Ladakh, India.With a summit elevation of 6,725 meters above sea level, it is the highest peak of the Pangong range, a subrange of the Karakoram.
Umling La or Umlung La is the highest paved road and mountain pass in the world, located in Ladakh, India, on the ridgeline between Koyul Lungpa and the Indus River near Demchok. At an elevation of 19,024 feet (5,799 m), it forms the source for the Umlung stream that drains into the Indus and a tributary of the Kiungdul river that drains into ...
Mamostong Kangri or Mamostang Kangri, surveyed as K35, is the highest peak in the remote Rimo Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range in Ladakh union territory of India. It is located about 30 km east-southeast of the snout of the Siachen Glacier. It is the 48th-highest independent peak in the world (using a 500m prominence cutoff).
The Pinnacle Peak is a part and third highest summit with elevation 22,740 ft (6,930 metres) of the Nun Kun mountain massif of the western Himalayan Range, located near the Suru valley, on Kargil Zanskar road [2] 80 kilometers west of Kargil town.
The Ladakh Range is regarded as a southern extension of the Karakoram Range, which runs for 230 miles (370 km) from the confluence of the Indus and Shyok rivers in Baltistan to the Tibetan border of Ladakh in the southeast. [1] [2] The southern extension of the Ladakh Range is called the Kailash Range, especially in Tibet. [3]
The highest peak is Mamostong Kangri, 7,516 metres (24,659 feet). The Rimo Muztagh is bordered on the north by the Rimo Glacier , which drains to the east into the upper Shyok River , and by the Teram Shehr Glacier , a tributary of the Siachen Glacier .