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| Nanda Devi | |
|---|---|
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 7,816 m (25,643 ft)[1] Ranked 23rd |
| Prominence | 3,139 m (10,299 ft)[1] Ranked 74th |
| Listing | Ultra List of Indian states and territories by highest point |
| Coordinates | 30°22′33″N 79°58′15″E / 30.37583°N 79.97083°E[1][2] |
| Geography | |
  Nanda Devi Location in India  Nanda Devi Nanda Devi (India) | |
| Location | Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India |
| Parent range | Garhwal Himalaya |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 29 August 1936 by Noel Odell and Bill Tilman[3][4] |
| Easiest route | south ridge: technical rock/snow/ice climb |
Nanda Devi is the second-highest mountain in India, after Kangchenjunga, and the highest located entirely within the country. (Kangchenjunga is on the border of India and Nepal.[5]) Nanda Devi is the 23rd-highest peak in the world.
Nanda Devi was considered the highest mountain in the world before computations in 1808 proved Dhaulagiri to be higher. It was also the highest mountain in India until 1975, when Sikkim, an independent kingdom until 1948 and a protectorate of India thereafter, became a state of India. It is located in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, between the Rishiganga valley on the west and the Goriganga valley on the east.
The peak, whose name means "Bliss-Giving Goddess",[4] is regarded as the patron goddess of the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalayas. In acknowledgment of its religious significance and for the protection of its fragile ecosystem, the Government of India declared the peak as well as the circle of high mountains surrounding it—the Nanda Devi sanctuary—off-limits to both locals and climbers in 1983. The surrounding Nanda Devi National Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.
- ^ a b c "High Asia I: The Karakoram, Pakistan Himalaya and India Himalaya (north of Nepal)". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ^ The Himalayan Index gives the coordinates of Nanda Devi as 30°22′12″N 79°58′12″E / 30.37000°N 79.97000°E.
- ^ Harish Kapadia, "Nanda Devi", in World Mountaineering, Audrey Salkeld, editor, Bulfinch Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8212-2502-2, pp. 254–257.
- ^ a b Andy Fanshawe and Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine-Style, Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64931-3.
- ^ "Kanchenjunga", Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 April 2023, retrieved 13 May 2023,
Kanchenjunga, also spelled Kangchenjunga or Kinchinjunga, Nepali Kumbhkaran Lungur, world's third highest mountain, with an elevation of 28,169 feet (8,586 metres). It is situated in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Sikkim state, northeastern India, and eastern Nepal, 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Darjiling
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