Pauhunri
Sign in to savePauhunri is a mountain in the Eastern Himalayas. It is located on the border of Sikkim, India and Tibet, China and is situated about 75 km northeast of Kangchenjunga. It marks the origin of the Teesta River.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_scale, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics International mountains of Asia, Mountains of Sikkim and Mountains of Tibet.
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Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Pauhunri
- Mountain.photo
- Bundesarchiv Bild 135-KA-06-015, Tibetexpedition, Landschaftsaufnahme.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Pauhunri (centre background) from the headwaters of the Lachung River south of the pass Dongkya La
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 7128
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 2035
- Mountain.range
- Himalayas
- Mountain.location
- Sikkim, India / Tibet, China
- Mountain.map
- Tibetan Plateau
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location on China-India border
- Mountain.map_size
- 300
- Mountain.label_position
- left
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 1911 by Alec Kellas
- Mountain.easiest_route
- snow/ice/rock climb
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Encyclopedic overview
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- First ascents
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Pauhunri is a mountain in the Eastern Himalayas. It is located on the border of Sikkim, India and Tibet, China and is situated about 75 km northeast of Kangchenjunga. It marks the origin of the Teesta River.
== First ascents == Pauhunri has an elevation of and was first climbed in 1911 by Scottish mountaineer, Alexander Mitchell Kellas, along with two Sherpas known only as "Sony" and "Tuny’s brother". Unknown at the time, it was recognised many years later that this climb made Pauhunri the highest climbed summit on Earth from 1911 to 1928.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pauhunri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations