Kuh-e Bandaka ( ps, کوه بندکا) or Kohe Bandaka, Koh-i Bandaka, Bandako, or incorrectly ''Koh-i-Bandakor''
[ Robin Hartshorne, "Bandako", ''American Alpine Journal'', 1966.]) is one of the highest peaks of the
Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern
Afghanistan. It is northeast of
Kabul and west of
Chitral
Chitral ( khw, , lit=field, translit=ćhitrār; ur, , translit=ćitrāl) is situated on the Chitral River in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It serves as the capital of the Chitral District and before that as the capital of Chitral ...
. Separated by a relatively low pass from the core of the Hindu Kush, it is the second highest mountain entirely within Afghanistan,
and the most
topographically prominent
In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
peak in all of Afghanistan.
On September 22, 1960, the second
German
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expedition to visit the Hindu Kush made the
first ascent of Kuh-e Bandaka. The members of the expedition were Wolfgang von Hansemann, Dietrich Hasse, Siegbert Heine, and Johannes Winkler, all from
West Berlin; all attained the summit. They made four camps, with their base camp in the Dare-Sachi Valley at an altitude of . The expedition also made multiple first ascents in the Pagar Valley of the Hindu Kush, and made meteorological and geological observations and sketch maps.
There have been over fifteen subsequent ascents, via a variety of routes; however there have been no recorded ascents since 1977.
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Landforms of Badakhshan Province
Mountains of Afghanistan
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Six-thousanders of the Hindu Kush
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