Gauri Sankar
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 Gauri Sankar (front right) |
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| height | 7134 m | |
| location | District Dolakha ( Nepal ), Tibet ( China ) |
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| Mountains | Rolwaling Himal ( Himalaya ) | |
| Dominance | 9.67 km → Melungtse | |
| Notch height | 1709 m ↓ ( 5425 m ) | |
| Coordinates | 27 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ N , 86 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | May 8, 1979 by John Roskelley and Dorje | |
 Gauri Sankar with Peak 6820 just 40 km away (back right) |
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The Gauri Sankar ( Devanagari : गौरीशंकर, gaurīśaṃkara, Gauri Shankar ; Chinese 赤 仁 玛 峰 , Pinyin Chìrénmǎ Fēng ; Tibetan : Jomo Tseringma ) is a mountain in the Himalayas on the border between China and Nepal and the second highest peak of the Rolwaling Himal after the Melungtseing ( 7181 m ).
When Gauri and Shankar is nicknamed the Hindu deities Parvati and Shiva . The mountain is the base of Nepalese time and the reason for the unusual time zone (UTC + 5:45).
Confusion with the highest mountain on earth
Gauri Sankar has been the name of the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest , especially in Germany since the middle of the 19th century . This was due to a mistake made by the German Himalayan researcher Hermann von Schlagintweit , who, while searching for Peak XV (i.e. Mount Everest), which had just become known as the highest mountain in the world, saw a peak towering over everything. He found out his name from the locals, namely Gauri Sankar, and published it under the false assumption that he had observed the highest mountain in the world.
Ascent history
Attempts at a first ascent in the 1950s and 1960s failed. From 1965 to 1979, climbing the mountain was officially prohibited. In 1979, a US-Nepalese expedition finally managed the first ascent.
Web links
- Gauri Shankar on Peakbagger.com (English)
- Gauri Sankar at Peakware (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter O. Dyhrenfurth : To the third pole: The eight-thousanders of the earth . Munich, 1952, p. 28f ( limited preview in the Google book search).