Mount Wilhelm

Mount Wilhelm

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Mount Wilhelm (German: Wilhelm Mountain ) with a height of 4509 meters the highest mountain in Papua New Guinea. He is part of the Bismarck Mountains.

The provinces of Simbu, Western Highlands and Madang limits here together.

The mountain is one of the highest in the island of New Guinea.

Mount Wilhelm received its name in 1888 when the German journalist and explorer Hugo Zöller the Finisterre Mountains southeast ascended from Madang and the four highest mountains in the Bismarck Mountains after Chancellor Otto Fürst von Bismarck and his three children, Marie von Bismarck Schönhausen, Herbert von Bismarck and Wilhelm von Bismarck, Otto Berg, Maria Berg, Herbert Berg and Berg named Wilhelm.

In August 1938, Leigh Grant Vial, a government official, and two inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, the first authenticated climbers of the mountain.

During the Second World War, fell on May 22, 1944, a US-based aircraft of the type F -7A from the mountain.

Mountaineering

Two paths lead to the top. The more popular is the relatively simple way from the village Keglsugl on the road from Kundiawa in the province of Simbu. A second, more difficult trail starts in the village Ambullua in the Western Highlands Province. The best season to climb Mount Wilhelm is from May to November.