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Travel
Information: Mountain Peaks |
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HIMALAYA:
More peaks opened for mountaineering |
The
government has announced the opening of nine more peaks for mountaineering
effective from the spring of 2001. With these, the total number of Himalayan
peaks opened for mountaineering has reached 160.
The
new peaks opened for climbing include...
8,413-meters
high Lhotse Middle
7,590-m
high Peak 38
7,036-m Hunchi
6,677-m Numri
6,500-m Tengkangpoche
5,927-m Nheserku
peak in the Mahalangur mountain range of Solukhumbu district
6,251-m P2
in the Manaslu range
6,012-m Thapa
peak in the Dhaulagiri range
5,751-m Thorang
peak in the Annapurna range.
The
newly opened peaks are located in the districts of Gorkha, Mustang,
Manang and Solukhumbu.
With
the opening of the 8,000-meter-plus high Lhotse Middle, the number
of 8,000-meter-plus mountains opened for mountaineering has reached 13.
Other 8,000-meter-plus being Mt Everest, Kanchanjungha Main, Kanchanjungha
South, Kanchanjungha West (Yalungkang), Lhotse Main, Lhotse sar, Makalu,
Manaslu, Cho Oyu, Annapurna and Dhaulagiri.
The Spring
mountaineering season began on March 1 and will end on May 31 when
all the teams will be required to quit climbing and retreat from the mountains
before the monsoon dumps heavy snow mixed with storm making climbing almost
impossible.
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