Baden-Powell Scout Peak, formerly known as Urkema Peak, in

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

is part of the

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, the highest

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in the world. It is on the border with China about a hundred miles west of

Mount Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heig ...

. As part of the

Scouting 2007 Centenary The Scouting 2007 Centenary comprised celebrations around the world in which Scouts celebrated 100 years of the world Scout movement. The original celebrations were focused on the United Kingdom, such as the camp on Brownsea Island, the birthplac ...

, the government of Nepal renamed Urkema Peak to Baden-Powell Scout Peak, to commemorate 100 years of Scouting in honor of British soldier

Robert Baden-Powell Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( ; (Commonly pronounced by others as ) 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the worl ...

, founder of the World

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First Ascent

The first ascent of Baden-Powell Peak was completed by an international team of Scouting members, including members from Australia, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Nepal. The first person to reach the summit was Australian climber Mark Mangles at around 12 o’clock on 12 September 2007. 14 climbers in total summited the peak during this expedition. The climbers from the Singapore Team that summited were: Ms Sophia Ng (who was a representative of Girl Guides Singapore and WAGGGS), Mr Kenny Leong and Mr Wesley Tay

First UK Ascent

The first UK group to summit the peak was from the girl guides association, including the head girl guide. This was organised by Safe Journeys Adventure treks on the 17th December 2010 and was led by Richard Struthers, who was the first British person to summit the peak.The Himalayan Database
Ascents - Winter 2010-2011 , Urkema
updated 1 Nov 2017, retrieved 23 Sept 2021

Ambiguity

The peak is sometimes mismatched with an unnamed peak (5,826m) located few km southwest, west of P. 5,857m.

References

Mountains of the Bagmati Province Five-thousanders of the Himalayas Scouting monuments and memorials {{Nepal-mountain-stub

First Ascent

First UK Ascent

Ambiguity

See also

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