Nun Kun

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Kun ( center) and Pinnacle Peak (left)

The Nun-Kun massif in Jammu and Kashmir, India includes the neighboring Himalayan peaks Well, 7135 m, and Kun, 7077 m. The Well is the highest peak in the Himalayan chain, which lies on the Indian side of the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir ( there are higher peaks in the Indian part of the Karakoram ). The massif is located near the Suru Valley, about 100 km east of Srinagar, the capital of the state.

The customer is located north of the Well and is separated by a snowy plateau of about 4 km length of him. The Pinnacle Peak with 6930 m the third highest summit of the Group. Due to a saddle height of 456 m, it counts as a secondary summit of the customers.

Climbing history

The massif was first in 1898 and 1902, 1904 and 1910 explored by Arthur Neve. 1903 explored the Dutch mountaineer Dr. H. Shillem the massif and discovered the plateau between the two peaks; He came on now to 6400 m. In 1906, the researcher pair William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman succeeded in the first ascent of the 6930 meter high Pinnacle Peak. Fanny Bullock achieved with this ascent a world altitude record for female climbers. However, they fell into competition with the climber Annie Smith Peck who ascended the Peruvian Huascaran with allegedly 7,300 m for the first time. It turned out later that she had measured because of a snow storm at an altitude of 600 meters.