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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 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 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.
Until then it was the world's second highest unclimbed mountain after Gangkhar Puensum, and they won a 2012 Piolet d'Or for their ascent. [ 6 ] Saser Kangri III was first climbed by an Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition in 1986 using an eastern approach.
Stok Kangri (6,153 metres (20,187 ft)) is the highest mountain in the Stok Range of the Zazkar Mountains a Trans-Himalayan mountain in the Ladakh region of north India. The peak is located in Hemis National Park , [ 3 ] 12 km southwest of the trailhead (3,610 metres (11,844 ft)) in the village of Stok and around 15 km southwest of the city of ...
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 .
The Karakoram Pass (Uyghur: قاراقۇرۇم ئېغىزى) is a 5,540 m or 18,176 ft [1] mountain pass between India and China in the Karakoram Range. [2] It is the highest pass on the ancient caravan route between Leh in Ladakh and Yarkand in the Tarim Basin. The name 'Karakoram' comes from a Turkic language meaning 'Black Gravel'. [3]
Lists of mountains by state or region of India: List of peaks in Himachal Pradesh; List of mountains in Kerala; List of mountain peaks of Ladakh; List of mountain peaks of Maharashtra; List of mountains in Nagaland; List of Himalayan peaks of Uttarakhand; List of mountains and hills of the West Bengal; List of peaks in the Western Ghats