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Mountain Peaks in India
India is a beautiful country, endowed with lots of endowments of nature in the form of forestry, rivers, seas and mountain peaks. Predominant among these are the mountains and the peaks that are magnificent and awesome. The beauty of the mountain lie in the peaks and passes they have and there are at least 100 mountain peaks taller by 7200 metres above the sea level.
Mount Everest occupies a unique position among Mountain Peaks of India, which is also known as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Chomulungma in Tibet.
Kanchenjunga in Himalayas, Godwin Austen in Karakoram Range, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu and Dhaulagiri is the notable Mountain Peaks in Everest ranges.
There are quite a few Mountain Peaks in India which are above 8000 m mark.
Mountain Peaks
To distinguish a tall mountain with a mountain peak is a question of ambiguity. The popular way that is adopted by nature experts and mountaineers is identifying them with their heights and comparing them with the height above the highest saddle related to a higher summit. This is usually referred as a measure with a nomenclature topographic prominence, alternatively and re-ascent. While applying this measure, the parent peak used to be the higher summit. A mountain is commonly defined as a summit with 300 m prominence. Likewise, the ratio of prominence with its height would reflect its predominance among mountains.
Climbing the Highest Peak
Trekking is generally an adventure sports which many of the sports lovers take up. But, with regard to mountain peaks, trekking is of less importance as compared to one scaling to the peak of the mountain. The first unified efforts to get to the Everest's summit were taken up by British mountaineers. The first reconnaissance expedition occurred in 1921 reaching 7,000 m on the North Col and another expedition in 1922 got the mountaineers up to 8,320 m. That was the first time ever a human had climbed above 8,000 m. There occurred a few tragedies too when seven porters were killed during descent in an avalanche. The expedition of 1924 happened to be a mystery because those two who climbed then, never returned till day. Finally, it was Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary who made the first official ascent of Everest in 1953 and they used the southeast ridge route, Tenzing had also reached 8,595 m the previous year that is 1952, as a team member of a Swiss expedition.
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