Kora Kang

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Kora Kang
height 6601  m
location North Sikkim ( India ),
Tibet ( PR China )
Mountains Chorten Nyima Group ( Himalayas )
Dominance 10.71 km →  Chorten Nyima
Notch height 801 m ↓  Chorten Nyima La ( 5800  m )
Coordinates 27 ° 57 '58 "  N , 88 ° 17' 10"  E Coordinates: 27 ° 57 '58 "  N , 88 ° 17' 10"  E
Kora Kang (Tibet)
Kora Kang

The Kora Kang is a peak in the Himalayas on the border between Sikkim in India and Tibet in China .

The Kora Kang has a height of 6601  m . It is located in the eastern main Himalayan ridge in the northwest of Sikkim on the border with Tibet. On its east and west flanks, glaciers flow in a northerly direction and both end in a glacier edge lake . These lie in the catchment area of the Yairu Zangbo , a left tributary of the Bum Chu (upper reaches of the Arun ). Chorten Nyima ( 6,927  m ), the highest mountain in the Chorten-Nyima group, rises 10.71 km to the west-southwest .

In Himalayan Index No ascents of Kora Kang are documented.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alpine Club Library - Himalayan Index