Nuptse

Nuptse
नुप्त्से
Nuptse from Lobuche
Highest point
Elevation
Prominence
Listing	List of mountains in Nepal
Coordinates
Naming
Translation	West Peak (Tibetan)
Geography
Nuptse Nepal
Location	Khumbu, Nepal
Parent range	Mahalangur Himal
Climbing
First ascent	1961 by a British team
Easiest route	snow/ice climb

Nuptse is a mountain in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal, in the Nepalese Himalayas. It lies two kilometres WSW of Mount Everest. Nuptse is Tibetan for "west peak", as it is the western segment of the Lhotse-Nuptse massif.

The long east-west trending main ridge of Nuptse is crowned by seven peaks:

Peak	metres	feet	Latitude (N)	Longitude (E)
Nuptse I	7,861	25,791	27°57′59″	86°53′24″
Nuptse II	7,827	25,679	27°57′52″	86°53′34″
Nuptse Shar I	7,804	25,604	27°57′41″	86°53′47″
Nuptse Nup I	7,784	25,538	27°58′05″	86°53′08″
Nuptse Shar II	7,776	25,512	27°57′39″	86°53′55″
Nuptse Nup II	7,742	25,400	27°58′06″	86°52′54″
Nuptse Shar III	7,695	25,246	27°57′30″	86°54′42″

The main peak, Nuptse I, was first climbed on May 16, 1961 by Dennis Davis and Sherpa Tashi and the following day by Chris Bonington, Les Brown, James Swallow and Pemba Sherpa, members of a British expedition led by Joe Walmsley. After a long hiatus, Nuptse again became the objective of high-standard mountaineers in the 1990s and 2000s, with important routes being put up on its west, south, and north faces.

While Nuptse is a dramatic peak when viewed from the south or west, and it towers above the base camp for the standard south col route on Everest, it is not a particularly independent peak: its topographic prominence is only 319 m (1,047 ft). Hence it is not ranked on the list of highest mountains.

Views

Nuptse from Chukhung Ri

Nuptse on the right, Everest to the left

External links

• Nuptse on Summitpost
• Nuptse on Peakware - photos
• Günther Seifferth, Nuptse at himalaya-info.org.