Bairiga () or Ruoni () (6,882 m) is the highest peak of
Kangri Garpo
Kangri Karpo (), also spelt Gangri Garbo (), is a mountain range in eastern Tibet, located primarily in Nyingchi Prefecture as well as a portion of Qamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The mountain range lies to the east of the ...
Range of southeast
Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a Provinces of China, province-level Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China in Southwest China. I ...
. The region has only recently been explored and before 2009, none of its 47 peaks above 6,000 m had been climbed. Bairiga / Ruoni, which remains unclimbed itself, was photographed for the first time in 1933 by the botanist explorer
Frank Kingdon-Ward
Francis Kingdon-Ward, born Francis Kingdon Ward OBE, (6 November 1885 in Manchester – 8 April 1958) was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He published most of his books as Frank Kingdon-Ward and this hyphenated form ...
, at which time it was known as Choembo.
In 2009, a Sino-Japanese joint climbing team formed by
China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
The China University of Geosciences (; abbreviated 地大 or CUG) is a key national university directly under the administration of the Education Ministry of the People's Republic of China. It is located in Wuhan, the capital of Central China's ...
and
Kobe University
, also known in the Kansai region as , is a leading Japanese national university located in the city of Kobe, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Hyōgo. It was established in 1949, but the academic origins of Kobe University trace back to the establishment of ...
organized an expedition to climb ''Kangri Garpo II'' or ''Ruoni II'' (6,805 m). On November 5, Deqing Ouzhu and Ciren Danda, Tibetan students with the CUG, were the first to reach the summit, while Koichiro Kondo and Masanori Yazaki scaled the peak two days later. In consultation with a local village leader Kangri Garpo II was renamed Lopchin (Lopchin Feng in Tibetan, Lou bu qin in Chinese), meaning "white male hawk".
[Tatsuo "Tim" Inoue (2010]
Asia, Tibet, Kangri Garpo Mountains, Lopchin (Kangri Garpo II)
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See also
* List of Ultras of Tibet, East Asia and neighbouring areas
This is a list of all the Ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Tibet, China, East Asia and neighbouring areas of Burma and India, including South India and Sri Lanka.
Kunlun Mountains and Northeastern Ti ...
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20110615025954/http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/info/topics/pdf/t2009_10_07_01.pdf 神戸大学・中国地質大学（武漢） 崗日嗄布（ｶﾝﾘｶﾞﾙﾎﾟ）山群合同学術登山隊計画
kangri_garpo_photos
*https://web.archive.org/web/20110720032653/http://www.hb.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2009-11/11/content_18199470.htm {{in lang, zh
Mountains of Tibet
Six-thousanders of the Himalayas