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Also known as Namcha Barwa / Namchabarwa

mountain in Tibet, China

Key facts

Elevation
7,782 m (25,531 ft) , Ranked 27th
Prominence
4,106 m (13,471 ft) , Ranked 19th
Listing
Ultra
Country
China
Region
Tibet Autonomous Region
Division
Nyingchi
County
Mêdog
Parent range
Namcha Barwa Himal
First ascent
1992, China–Japan expedition
Easiest route
SSW ridge on rock, snow and ice

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
mountain
Country
China
Elevation
7782
Image
Namcha Barwa from the west.jpg
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topographic prominence
4106
topographic isolation
708
Commons category
Namcha Barwa
mountain range
Assam Himalaya
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Encyclopedic overview

Namcha Barwa Himal range, runs 180 km diagonally from bottom left to top right corner, surrounded by the Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra River). Naamcha Barwa peak is in the top right at the end of the range. Gyala Peri peak in the Nyenchen Tanglha Shan range is just 20 km northwest of Naamcha Barwa peak across the "Great Bend" of Yarlung Tsangpo River surrounding the Naamcha Barwa peak.

Namcha Barwa or Namchabarwa (Tibetan: གནམས་ལྕགས་འབར་བ།, Wylie: Gnams lcags 'bar ba, ZWPY: Namjagbarwa; Chinese: 南迦巴瓦峰, Pinyin: Nánjiābāwǎ Fēng) is a mountain peak lying in Tibet in the region of Pemako. The traditional definition of the Himalaya extending from the Indus River to the Brahmaputra would make it the eastern anchor of the entire mountain chain, and it is the highest peak of its own section as well as Earth's easternmost peak over 7,600 metres (24,900 ft). It lies in the Nyingchi Prefecture of Tibet. It is the highest peak in the 180 km long Namcha Barwa Himal range (also called the Namjagbarwa syntaxis or Namjagbarwa Group Complex), which is considered the easternmost syntaxis/section of the Himalaya in southeastern Tibet and northeastern India where the Himalaya are said to end, although high ranges (Hengduan Mountains on the China–Myanmar border) actually continue another 300 km to the east.

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

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