Dunagiri (mountain)

Dunagiri
Dunagiri
	The Dunagiri from Kuari-Pass
Highest point
Elevation	7,066 m (23,182 ft)
Prominence	c. 1,200 m (3,900 ft) [1]
Coordinates	30°31′57″N 79°50′02″E
Geography
	Dunagiri Location in Uttarakhand, India
Location	Uttarakhand, India
Parent range	Nanda Devi Group, Garhwal Himalayas
Climbing
First ascent	5 July 1939 by André Roch, F. Steuri, D. Zogg[2]
Easiest route	southwest ridge: rock/snow/ice climb

Dunagiri (7,066 m) is one of the high peaks of the Chamoli District Himalayas in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. It lies at the northwest corner of the Sanctuary Wall, A ring of peaks surrounding Nanda Devi and enclosing the Nanda Devi Sanctuary.

Dunagiri was first climbed on 5 July 1939[3] by the Swiss climbers André Roch, F. Steuri and D. Zogg, via the southwest ridge. In 1975, Joe Tasker and Dick Renshaw climbed a particularly difficult route on the southeast buttress in a significant milestone for alpine-style climbing.[4] In 1978 the first Australian Himalayan expedition by the Australian National University Mountaineering Club made the fourth ascent via the south-west ridge.[5] Lincoln Hall and Tim Macartney-Snape made the final summit attempt with Macartney-Snape successfully summiting.

Gallery

Dunagiri peak from Kartik Swami Temple
Dunagiri from Kuari Pass
Dunagiri from Kuari Pass

References

This is an approximate figure, based on the 1:150,000 scale topographic map Garhwal-Himalaya-Ost, Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research.
Jill Neate. High Asia: An Illustrated History of the 7000 Metre Peaks. ISBN 0-89886-238-8.
Some sources say 1947.
Andy Fanshawe and Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine-Style, Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64931-3
Steffen, Will (2010). Himalayan Dreaming: Australaian mountatineering in the great ranges of Asia 1922-1990. Canberra: ANU E Press. p. 593. ISBN 978-1-921666-16-2.

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[prom-1] This is an approximate figure, based on the 1:150,000 scale topographic map Garhwal-Himalaya-Ost, Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research.

[neate-2] Jill Neate. High Asia: An Illustrated History of the 7000 Metre Peaks. ISBN 0-89886-238-8.

[year-3] Some sources say 1947.

[him_alpine_style-4] Andy Fanshawe and Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine-Style, Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64931-3

[5] Steffen, Will (2010). Himalayan Dreaming: Australaian mountatineering in the great ranges of Asia 1922-1990. Canberra: ANU E Press. p. 593. ISBN 978-1-921666-16-2.