Ngadi Chuli

Manaslu (left), Thulagi Chuli (center) and Ngadi Chuli (right)

The Ngadi Chuli ( or Peak 29, also: Dakura ) is a mountain in the Himalayas. With a height of 7871 m, it is one of the 20 highest peaks on the planet. The mountain is located in the central part of the Asian mountains on Nepalese territory in the Management Zone Gandaki, some 120 km ( straight line ) north-east of Kathmandu and removed some 20 km from the Tibetan border. The Ngadi Chuli is part of the mountain range Mansiri Himal (or Manaslu massif ), the third highest mountain it represents. He is just under 10 km southeast of the Eight -thousand Manaslu. The direct neighboring mountain of Ngadi Chuli is located about 5 km south-east, almost identical Himal Chuli. On the eastern slopes of the seven -thousand- lies the great Lidanda Glacier.

Ascent

The Ngadi Chuli was later and less often defeated as all eight-thousanders. In 1961, a Japanese expedition undertook a first exploration of the mountain. 1969 succeeded the third Japanese - Ngadi Chuli expedition to ascend to an altitude of 7350 m. The first ascent probably succeeded Hiroshi Watanabe 1970 and Lhaksa Tsering. However, the Japanese mountaineer and his native companions during the descent crashed shortly fatal below the summit and there is no definitive proof that they had actually reached the highest point of the mountain before her crash. Several other Japanese groups do it in the following years, not to the summit. The first confirmed ascent finally succeeded only the Polish mountaineers Ryszard Gajewski and Maciej Pawlikowski on May 8, 1979. Since so far been no further attempt to climb the Ngadi Chuli undertaken.

Tourism

The Ngadi Chuli is located in a remote, relatively undiscovered tourist part of Nepal - which at the foot of the seven -thousand were able to maintain traditional ways of life even more than elsewhere. The Manaslu region is open only since 1991 generally for foreign visitors. Some operators offer guided treks along the south slope of the Ghurkha Himal chain with height up to nearly 5000 m reached and offer impressive views of the Ngadi Chuli and its neighboring mountains. Even trekking through the adjacent Annapurna region, which has a bit more tourism infrastructure, offer views of the Ngadi Chuli.

The Ngadi Chuli may, after obtaining an appropriate permit from the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism, foreign expedition teams climb (even without a local escort ).

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