Khunyang Chhish
The Kunyang - Chhish Massif with main (7 ), west ( -w ), South ( -s) and eastern summit ( -e ) and Kunyang Chhish North (6) and Pumari Chhish (8).
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Kunyang Chhish, Khunyang Chhish, Khiangyang Kish Kish or Kunyang is the second highest mountain in Hispar Muztagh, a mountain range of Karakoram in Pakistan. He is regarded as the 21st highest mountain in the world and eighth - highest in Pakistan. The Khiangyang Kish is located in the center of the Hispar Muztagh, north of Hispar Glacier, southeast of Khunyang Glacier and east of the Hunza Valley.
- 2.1 Kunyang Chhish South
- 2.2 Kunyang Chhish East
- 2.3 Kunyang Chhish West
Name
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The Dutch couple Jenny Visser - Hooft and P. Ch Visser researched Hispargebiet 1924 and named the glacier in the west of the mountain Kunyanggletscher. They were based on numbers of residents. 1938 took over the Briton Michael Vivyan the name of the glacier on the mountain. Eric Shipton published in 1939, however, a card on which the glaciers were registered as Khiang Glacier and the mountain as Khinyang Chhish. An Italian map of 1960 used the name Khnyang Chhish and Khnyang Glacier. The Swiss geologist and topographer Marcel Short used the term Khyang and on the basis that Shipton. Anders Bolinder and GO Dyhrenfurth finally established the spelling Khiangyang Kish, which was also used by the Polish Erstbesteigern in anticipation of the expedition. They found out in 1971 that the name Kunyang Chhish is both the official Pakistani formulation as well as the only accepted by the locals variant.
Importance
The name may mean Kunyang Chhish Hidden Summit (English: the Hidden Peak - in front of a confusion with the Gasherbrum I, Hidden Peak Baltoro Muztagh in, be warned ). The Japanese climbers Kazuo Tobita writes in the American Alpine Journal 2004, the name meant in the language of the locals the corner peak, so Eckgipfel.
Summit
The Kunyang Chhish three sub- peaks, which are called because of their location to the main summit as Kunyang Chhish South, West and East.
Kunyang Chhish South
The south summit is 7620 meters, the highest side peak, but he has only a small saddle height.
Kunyang Chhish East
The 7400 meters high Kinyang Chhish East has a saddle height of 240 meters, its south wall was long regarded as one of the last problems in high-altitude mountaineering. It was first climbed on July 19, 2013 by Hansjörg Auer, Matthias Auer and Simon Anthamatten.
Kunyang Chhish West
The Kunyang Chhish West ( 7350 m) is also known as Pyramid Peak, his saddle height is 170 meters.
Kunyang Chhish North
In the north ridge of Kunyang Chhish the 7108 meter high Kunyang Chhish North looms. He is regarded thanks to a saddle height of 517 meters ( 500 meters is the threshold value in the Himalayas ) as an independent mountain.
Climbing history
Two unsuccessful summit attempts in the years 1962 and 1965 both ended fatally. The successful first ascent was in 1971 the Polish team of Andrzej Zawada from the south side. The only other climbing the British succeeded Mark Lowe and Keith Milne on 11 July 1988 by the North West side.