- Gyachung Kang
Infobox Mountain
Name = Gyachung Kang
Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong Riverrect 333 149 409 186 Changtserect 550 284 677 303 Rongbuk Glacierrect 478 196 570 218 North Facerect 237 231 346 267 East Rongbuk Glacierrect 314 290 536 309 North Col north ridge routerect 531 79 663 105 Lhotserect 582 112 711 130 Nuptserect 603 232 733 254 South Col routerect 716 165 839 206 Gyachung Kangrect 882 147 967 183 Cho Oyudesc bottom-left
Elevation = 7,952 metres (26,089 feet)
Ranked 15th
Location =Nepal -Tibet
Range =Mahalangur Himal ,Himalaya
Prominence = 700 m (2,300 ft)
Coordinates = coord|28|05|53|N|86|44|32|E|type:mountain
First ascent =1964 by aJapan ese team
Easiest route = glacier/snow/ice climbGyachung Kang is a
mountain in theMahalangur Himal , a subrange of theHimalaya , and is the highest peak betweenCho Oyu (8,201 m) andMount Everest (8,848 m). It lies on the border betweenNepal andTibet . As the fifteenth highest peak in the world, it is also the highest peak that is not aneight-thousander ; hence it is far less well-known than the lowest of the eight-thousanders, which are only about 100 m (328 ft) higher.The mountain was first climbed on
April 10 ,1964 by Y. Kato, K. Sakaizawa and Pasang Phutar and on the next day by K. Machida and K. Yasuhisa.The north face was first climbed in 1999 by a Slovene expedition and was repeated by Yasushi Yamanoi in 2002.
External links
* [http://climb.mountainzone.com/2000/life/html/000104.html Slovene Gyachung Kang '99 Expedition] at MountainZone.com
* [http://www.alpinist.com/doc/ALP02/climbing-notes-gyachung Costly success on Gyachung Kang]
* [http://members.shaw.ca/donkato/gck1/gyachu001.htm Report on the first ascent 1964 by Yukihiko Kato] (in Japanese)
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