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Yangra
Sign in to saveYangra (Ganesh I) is the highest peak of the Ganesh Himal, which is a subrange of the Himalayas. Although not an 8,000 metre peak, and little visited, it enjoys great vertical relief over the nearby valleys. __NOTOC__ thumb ==Location== Yangra, and the entire Ganesh Himal, lie between the Budhi Gandaki and Trisuli Gandaki valleys, northwest of Kathmandu. Yangra lies on the border between Nepal and Tibet, and is east-southeast of Manaslu, the nearest 8,000 metre peak.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Yangra
- Mountain.other_name
- Ganesh I
- Mountain.photo
- Langtang range (25).JPG
- Mountain.photo_caption
- View from the east; from left: Pabil, Salasungo, Ganesh V, Yangra Kangri.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 7429
- Mountain.elevation_ref
- Ranked 62nd
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 2352
- Mountain.range
- Ganesh Himal, Himalayas
- Mountain.map
- Nepal##China
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Nepal, on the border with China
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.first_ascent
- October 24, 1955 by R Lambert, C Kogan, E Gauchat
- Mountain.easiest_route
- rock/snow/ice climb
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Part of
- Ganesh Himal
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Shigatse
- Elevation
- 7422
- Image
- Langtang range (25).JPG
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- Commons category
- Yangra Kangri
- topographic prominence
- 2359
- located in/on physical feature
- Ganesh Himal
- mountain range
- Himalayas
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Encyclopedic overview
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Yangra (Ganesh I) is the highest peak of the Ganesh Himal, which is a subrange of the Himalayas. Although not an 8,000 metre peak, and little visited, it enjoys great vertical relief over the nearby valleys. __NOTOC__ thumb ==Location== Yangra, and the entire Ganesh Himal, lie between the Budhi Gandaki and Trisuli Gandaki valleys, northwest of Kathmandu. Yangra lies on the border between Nepal and Tibet, and is east-southeast of Manaslu, the nearest 8,000 metre peak.
==Climbing history== The Ganesh Himal was first seriously reconnoitered for climbing by H. W. Tilman and party in 1950. The first attempt on the peak was in 1953.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yangra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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