Nilkantha
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 View from the confluence of Satopanth Glacier and Bhagirathi Kharak |
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| height | 6596 m | |
| location | Uttarakhand ( India ) | |
| Mountains | Gangotri Group ( Garhwal Himalaya ) | |
| Dominance | 11.37 km → Chaukhamba | |
| Notch height | 1200 m ↓ ( 5396 m ) | |
| Coordinates | 30 ° 43 '49 " N , 79 ° 24' 19" E | |
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| First ascent | June 13, 1962 by OP Sharma, Sherpas Phurba Lobsang and Lhakpa Giyalbu Lama | |
| Normal way | glaciated alpine tour | |
 View from Badrinath from |
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Nilkantha (also Neelkanth , Neelakant , Nilkanth or Nilkanta ) is a 6596 m high mountain in the western Himalayas in the Garhwal region in the Indian state of Uttarakhand .
Surname
The name of the mountain goes back to a name for the Hindu god Shiva . Nilakantha is "the one with the blue throat" ( nila = "blue", kantha = "neck" or "throat"). In the myth of the “whisking of the ocean of milk”, Shiva drank the strongest poison ( Halahala ) to protect the world from it. This poison did no harm to him, but it colored his throat blue. In addition, the water of the source rivers and glaciers of the Ganges in the vicinity of the mountain in Hindu mythology flows through Shiva's hair to the earth.
location
The Nilkantha lies on the south side of the Satopanth Glacier , one of the two source glaciers of the Alaknanda River. This headwaters of the Indus flows east of the Nilkantha further south. The place Badrinath in the Alaknanda valley is about 9 kilometers east of the mountain, the difference in altitude from the valley floor to the summit of the Nilkantha is almost 3500 meters. To the west of the Nilkantha lies the seven-thousand-meter Chaukhamba above the Satopanth glacier . From the Nilkantha on the other side of the Alaknanda Valley , the Nilgiri Parbat in the Valley of Flowers National Park and the mountains of the Kamet Group lie .
First ascent
The first ascent was achieved by an Indian expedition in 1961, after seven previous expeditions were unsuccessful, including Frank Smythe in 1936 and a three-party team led by Willi Unsoeld in 1949. OP Sharma and the Sherpas Phurba Lobsang and Lhakpa Giyalbu Lama reached the summit on June 13 at bad weather and had to survive an outdoor bivouac on the descent.
Web links
- Nilkantha at Peakware
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank S. Smythe: The Valley of Flowers. 1949, p. 244. Available online at www.archive.org, accessed November 24, 2011.
- ↑ a b Hary Dang: Nilkantha, Garhwal. In: American Alpine Journal 1962, p. 272 (AAJO), accessed November 23, 2011.
- ↑ Willi Unsoeld: Nilkanta, Garhwal Himalay 1949. In: American Alpine Journal 1956, pp. 75-80. (AAJO), accessed November 24, 2011.