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Kabru
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Kabru is a mountain in the Himalayas on the border of eastern Nepal and India. It is part of a ridge that extends south from the third highest mountain in the world Kangchenjunga, and is the southernmost peak in the world.

Key facts

Mountain.name
Kabru
Mountain.photo
File:Kanchenjungha.jpg
Mountain.photo_caption
Kabru, from Sandakphu at the border between Nepal and West Bengal, India
Mountain.elevation_m
7412
Mountain.elevation_ref
Ranked 65th
Mountain.prominence_m
780
Mountain.range
Himalayas
Mountain.listing
Mountains of India Mountains of Nepal
Mountain.location
India–Nepal border
Mountain.map
Nepal Province1#Nepal#India
Mountain.map_caption
Location in India - Nepal border
Mountain.label_position
left

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Kabru is a mountain in the Himalayas on the border of eastern Nepal and India. It is part of a ridge that extends south from the third highest mountain in the world Kangchenjunga, and is the southernmost peak in the world.

The main features of this ridge are as follows (north to south): Kangchenjunga South top, 8476 m, at A 6600–6700 m saddle, located at A 7349 m summit, known as Talung, at A 6983 m saddle, at A 7412 m summit, at . This point has sufficient prominence to be classified as the highest point of a separate mountain, according to the definition used in List of highest mountains. It is confusingly referred to by some authorities as "Kabru IV", but it is not clear that this is correct, or that any "Kabru" name is correctly applied to this summit. A substantial "field of firn" measuring about 2 km from north to south, and 1 km from east to west. This is almost entirely over 7200 m, and the watershed divide that runs through this field does not drop below this height. A 7338 m summit, at ca. , at the eastern boundary of the field of firn. This point is known as Kabru North. Although it is lower than the 7412 m summit, it has been at times considered to be Kabru's highest point, with the higher summit considered to be an unnamed summit along the ridge to Kangchenjunga. An intervening c.7200 m saddle A 7318 m summit, at , known as Kabru South is the southernmost "7000 m peak" in the world. To the south west of Kabru south, there is a 6400 m saddle and a 6682 m summit known as Rathong. To its south east is the 6600 m Kabru Dome.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kabru” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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