Nuptse or Nubtse (

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: नुबचे, Wylie: Nub rtse, ) is a

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in the

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region of the

Mahalangur Himal Mahālangūr Himāl ( ne, महालङ्गूर हिमाल, ''Mahālaṅgūra himāla'') is a section of the Himalayas in northeast Nepal and south-central Tibet of China extending east from the pass Nangpa La between Rolwaling Himal and ...

, in the

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ese

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. It lies two kilometres WSW of

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. Nubtse is

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for "west peak", as it is the western segment of the

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-Nubtse

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. The main peak, Nubtse I, was first climbed on May 16, 1961 by

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and

Tashi and the following day by

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, Les Brown, James Swallow and Pemba Sherpa, members of a

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expedition led by Joe Walmsley. After a long hiatus, Nubtse again became the objective of high-standard mountaineers in the 1990s and 2000s, with important routes being put up on its west, south, and north faces. While Nubtse is a dramatic peak when viewed from the south or west, and it towers above the base camp for the standard south col route on Everest, it is not a particularly independent peak: its

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is only . Hence it is not ranked on the

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Nuptse on Summitpost

- photos * Günther Seifferth
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