Namjagbarwa
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 Namcha Barwa seen from the west (from a viewing platform of the Zhibai) |
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| height | 7782 m | |
| location | Tibet ( China ) | |
| Mountains | Assam Himalayas | |
| Dominance | 707 km → Kangchenjunga South Summit | |
| Notch height | 4106 m ↓ Lo La | |
| Coordinates | 29 ° 37 '50 " N , 95 ° 3' 19" E | |
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| First ascent | October 30, 1992 by Sino-Japanese expedition | |
The Namjagbarwa (Tibetan: "lightning bolt") is a 7782 m high peak in the Himalayas .
He is located in Mêdog County ( me tog rdzong མེ་ཏོག་ རྫོང ། / Mòtuō Xiàn 墨脱 县 ) in the Nyingchi administrative district of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China .
Namjagbarwa is the easternmost mountain with an altitude of over 7600 m . It is located on the big bend of the Yarlung Zangbo ( Brahmaputra overflow). He was seen by F. M. Bailey on his Tsangpo expedition in 1913 as the first European. To the north of this bend is the Gyala Peri, which is hardly less high at 7,294 m . From 1976 to the first and to date only ascent by a Sino-Japanese expedition with Bianba Zaxi and others in 1992, Namjagbarwa was the highest unclimbed mountain on earth .
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Tibetan script : གནམ་ ལྕགས་ འབར་ བ །
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Wylie transliteration : gnam lcags' bar ba
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Pronunciation in IPA : [
namtɕakpaːwa ]
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Namjagbarwa
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THDL transcription : Namchakbarwa
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Other spellings: Namcha Barwa,
Namche Barwa |
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Traditional :
南迦巴瓦峰
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Simplified :
南迦巴瓦峰
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Pinyin : Nánjiābāwǎ Fēng
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Web links
- Namcha Barwa, China on Peakbagger.com (English)
- summitpost.org
- US Army Map Service (1955), 1: 250,000. Retrieved March 26, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ official spelling according to Guójiā cèhuìjú dìmíng yánjiūsuǒ 国家 测绘 局 地名 研究所 : Xīzàng dìmíng 西藏 地名 / bod ljongs sa ming བོད་ ལྗོངས་ ས་ མིང ། ( Tibetan place names ; Zhōngguó Zàngxué chūbǎnshè 中国 藏 学 出版社, Beijing 1995); ISBN 7-80057-284-6 , p. 340.
- ^ Jack D. Ives: Himalayan perceptions: environmental change and the well-being of mountain peoples . HimAAS, Lalitpur 2006, ISBN 99946-966-5-3 , p. 29.
- ^ Gary McCue: Trekking in Tibet - A Traveler's Guide . 2nd edition, The Mountaineers, Seattle 1999, ISBN 0-89886-673-1 .