Nemjung
Sign in to saveNemjung or Nimjung is a mountain in the Himalayas of Nepal. It is located approximately northwest of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and about northwest of the eight-thousander, Manaslu. Its summit has an elevation of . This mountain was once called Himlung Himal.
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- Mountain.map
- Nepal
- Mountain.name
- Nemjung
- Mountain.photo
- Nemjung Gipfel 7140 Meter.jpg
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 7140
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1920
- Mountain.range
- Himalayas
- Mountain.location
- Manang District,Gandaki Zone,North central Nepal
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Nepal
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 1983 by Nepal and Hirosaki University HIMLUNG HIMAL Joint Expedition Wataru Saito, Makito Minami, Ken Takahashi (Japanese), Kirkin Lama (Nepalese)
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- rock/snow/ice climb
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- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Manang District
- Elevation
- 7140
- Image
- Nemjung Gipfel 7140 Meter.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 2005
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- Himalayas
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Nemjung or Nimjung is a mountain in the Himalayas of Nepal. It is located approximately northwest of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and about northwest of the eight-thousander, Manaslu. Its summit has an elevation of . This mountain was once called Himlung Himal.
In the 1990s, a few years after the first ascent in 1983, when demarcating the border with China, the Nepalese government changed the traditional name of Himlung Himal to another mountain about 4 kilometres north. The peak between them is properly called Himjung. It is the highest among the three peaks of Nemjung (east), Himjung (centre) and Himlung Himal range (west).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nemjung” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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