Golden Mount Namjagbarwa

Golden Mount Namjagbarwa Photo: Yang Yichou
Time: April, 1984
Site: Highest peak of the east Himalayas, southeastern Tibet
Height: 3800m
Brief Introduction: Mount Namjagbarwa is the highest peak of eastern part of the Himalayas, also the 15th highest peak in the world. The biggest gorge of the world, i.e., the Great Yarlung Zangbo Gorge, presents a spectacular horseshoe bend here. There are many snowslips occurred in alpine gorges of Mount Namjagbarwa, so it is extremely difficult to take climb activities here. So far the only successful overcoming was carried out by a Chinese-Japanese Joint Climbing Team in December, 1990.