Mountain in Tibet, China
Gurla Mandhata |
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Gurla Mandhata |
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Elevation | 7,728 m (25,354 ft)[1] Ranked 34th |
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Prominence | 2,788 m (9,147 ft)[1] |
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Listing | Ultra |
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Coordinates | 30°26′09″N 81°17′45″E / 30.43583°N 81.29583°E / 30.43583; 81.29583[1] |
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Location in southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region Show map of TibetLocation in Ngari Prefecture Show map of NgariLocation near Nepal Show map of Nepal
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Location | Tibet Autonomous Region, China |
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Parent range | Nalakankar Himal, Himalaya |
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First ascent | 1985 by Cirenuoji, Jiabu, Jin Junxi, K. Matsubayashi, Song Zhiyu, K. Suita, Y. Suita, T. Wada[2] |
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Easiest route | West flank: snow/ice climb |
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Naimona'nyi |
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Tibetan | གནས་མོ་སྣ་གཉིས མེ་མོ་ ན་ ཉི་ |
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Gurla Mandhata, also Naimona'nyi or Namu Nani, is the highest peak of the Nalakankar Himal, a small subrange of the Himalaya. It lies in Burang County of the Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, near the northwest corner of Nepal. It is the 34th-highest peak in the world (using a 500-metre prominence cutoff). It is also notable for being well within the interior of the Tibetan Plateau (most peaks of similar height – except notably Shishapangma, the world's 14th-highest peak – lie nearer to or outside the edge of the Plateau) and relatively far away from other peaks with heights greater than 7,500 metres. It sits roughly across Lake Manasarovar from the sacred peak of Mount Kailash.