Trisul
Sign in to saveTrisul or Trishul is a group of three Himalayan mountain peaks of western Kumaun, Uttarakhand, with the highest (Trisul I) reaching 7120m. The three peaks resemble a trident - in Sanskrit, Trishula, trident, is the weapon of Shiva. The Trishul group forms the southwest corner of the ring of peaks enclosing the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, about west-southwest of Nanda Devi itself. The main peak, Trisul I, was the first peak over to have ever been climbed, in 1907.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Trishul
- Mountain.photo
- Time lapse shot of Trishul peak.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Trishul from Ranikhet
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 7120
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1616
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra
- Mountain.parent
- Garhwal Himalaya
- Mountain.location
- Chamoli district, Uttarakhand
- Mountain.map
- India
- Mountain.map_caption
- India
- Mountain.map_size
- 260
- Mountain.label
- Trisul
- Mountain.label_position
- bottom
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 12 June 1907 by Tom Longstaff, A. Brocherel, H. Brocherel, Karbir
- Mountain.easiest_route
- Northeast flank/north ridge: snow/glacier climb
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Description of the massif and neighbouring peaks
- Climbing history
- Trisul I
- Trisul II and III
- Access
- See also
- References
- Other sources
- Gallery
Trisul or Trishul is a group of three Himalayan mountain peaks of western Kumaun, Uttarakhand, with the highest (Trisul I) reaching 7120m. The three peaks resemble a trident - in Sanskrit, Trishula, trident, is the weapon of Shiva. The Trishul group forms the southwest corner of the ring of peaks enclosing the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, about west-southwest of Nanda Devi itself. The main peak, Trisul I, was the first peak over to have ever been climbed, in 1907.
==Description of the massif and neighbouring peaks== The three peaks are named Trisul I, Trisul II, and Trisul III. The massif is a north-south ridge, with Trisul I at the north end and Trisul III at the south. The massif runs roughly North-South, and hence appears compressed when viewed from the south (Ranikhet, Kausani), and more stretched out from the Southeast (Chamoli, Bedini Bugyal).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trisul” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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