Namcha Barwa

Namcha Barwa is the eastern anchor of the Himalaya. It rises in Nyingchi, Tibet, inside the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo, the river that becomes the Brahmaputra. Gyala Peri stands across the gorge about 22 km to the north-northwest. From the river to the summit the rise is on the order of 5,000–6,800 m in a short horizontal distance: one of the steepest great-peak ramps on the planet. Prominence is about 4,100 m, third in the Himalaya after Everest and Nanga Parbat.

After Batura Sar was climbed in 1976, Namcha Barwa was the highest unclimbed independent mountain in the world. Chinese–Japanese parties reconnoitered it in 1990 and reached 7,460 m in 1991; Hiroshi Onishi was killed in an avalanche that year. On 30 October 1992, a joint expedition climbed the south ridge over the intermediate top Nai Peng and reached the summit. For years that remained the only confirmed ascent. Access in the Tsangpo bend has often been restricted.

Namcha Barwa is not on any normal expedition circuit. This page is about position: the far east of the range, a river looping around an isolated 7,782 m peak, and a first ascent that came late because the mountain is hard to reach, not because nobody wanted it. en.wikipedia.org