Mukut Parbat or Mukut Parvat (Hindi: मुकुट पर्वत) is a mountain in
Uttarakhand
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India
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, and the 20th highest located entirely within India.
Nanda Devi
Nanda Devi is the second-highest mountain in India, after Kangchenjunga, and the highest located entirely within the country (Kangchenjunga is on the border of India and Nepal). It is the 23rd-highest peak in the world.
Nanda Devi was consid ...
, is the highest mountain in this category. Mukut Parbat 96th highest peak in the world. There are two summits, the first one is and other one is . It falls under
Kamet
Kamet ( hi, कामेत) is the second highest mountain in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India, after Nanda Devi. It lies in the Chamoli District of Uttarakhand.
Its appearance resembles a giant pyramid topped by a flat summit area wi ...
Zaskar Range
Zanskar, Zahar (locally) or Zangskar, is a tehsil of Kargil district, in the Indian union territory of Ladakh. The administrative centre is Padum (former Capital of Zanskar). Zanskar, together with the neighboring region of Ladakh, was briefly ...
.
Climbing history
Mukut Parbat was first climbed in 1951 by a team from
New Zealand
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through its sharp and steep western ridge.
[ Cotter, Pasang Dawa Lama and Riddiford reached its summit from the Dakhini Chamrao glacier which joins the Saraswati from the east.]Zaskar Range
Zanskar, Zahar (locally) or Zangskar, is a tehsil of Kargil district, in the Indian union territory of Ladakh. The administrative centre is Padum (former Capital of Zanskar). Zanskar, together with the neighboring region of Ladakh, was briefly ...
which does not receive the heavy monsoon.
Neighboring and subsidiary peaks
Mukut Parbat is surrounded by three principal neighboring or subsidiary peaks:
* Abi Gamin
Abi Gamin (also known as Ibi Gamin) is a Himalayan mountain peak mostly situated in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand state in India, northeast of Kamet. Its summit is on the border with Tibet and its northern slope is in the Ngari Prefect ...
, 7,355 m (24,130 ft), prominence
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 ...
= 217 m
* Kamet
Kamet ( hi, कामेत) is the second highest mountain in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India, after Nanda Devi. It lies in the Chamoli District of Uttarakhand.
Its appearance resembles a giant pyramid topped by a flat summit area wi ...
, 7,756 m (24,130 ft), prominence
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 ...
= 2825 m
*Chamrao Parbat 6,910 m (22178 ft)
Glaciers and rivers
The West (Paschimi) Kamet Glacier. The branches of the West Kamet Glacier head on the western slopes of Kamet, Abi Gamin, and Mukut Parbat and Dakhini Chamrao glacier
See also
* List of mountain peaks of Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand is a Himalayan state of India. This mountainous state contains, in its northern section, some of the highest mountain peaks in the world. Many of them are unclimbed; many are unnamed. A large number of peaks in Uttarakhand are still ...
References
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Mountains of Uttarakhand
Geography of Chamoli district
Seven-thousanders of the Himalayas