Thamserku | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 6,608 m (21,680 ft)[1] |
Coordinates | 27°47′25″N 86°47′15″E / 27.79028°N 86.78750°E |
Geography | |
Location | Khumbu, Nepal |
Parent range | Himalayas |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1964 by Lynn Crawford, Peter Farrell, John McKinnon, Richard Stewart[2] |
Easiest route | snow/ice climb |
Thamserku is a mountain in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal. The mountain is connected by a ridge leading eastward to Kangtega. Thamserku is a prominent mountain to the east of Namche Bazaar and lies just north of Kusum Kangguru.[citation needed]
The first ascent was made in 1964 from the south by members of Edmund Hillary's Schoolhouse Expedition: Lynn Crawford, Pete Farrell, John McKinnon and Richard Stewart. Below the basin on the southwest face, they reached the south ridge after climbing a difficult couloir. The team described the climb as difficult and the route has never again been repeated in its entirety.[2] In 2014, Russian climbers Alexander Gukov and Alexey Lonchinskiy made the first ascent on the southwest face.[2]