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Puncak Jaya region icecap, Papua Puncak Jaya (Indonesian: [ˈpuntʃak ˈdʒaja]; literally "Glorious Peak", Amungme: Nemangkawi Ninggok) [2] or Carstensz Pyramid (/ ˈ k ɑːr s t ən s /, Indonesian: Piramida Carstensz, Dutch: Carstenszpiramide) on the island of New Guinea, with an elevation of 4,884 m (16,024 ft), is the highest mountain peak of an island on Earth, and the highest peak in ...
Mount Carstensz from the east in 1972. Left to right: North Wall Peaks, Ngga Pulu, Carstensz East, and Puncak Jaya or Carstensz Pyramid. Due to glacier melt, the rocky ridge of Jaya has surpassed Ngga Pulu as the highest summit of Oceania. Mount Wilhelm, highest peak of Papua New Guinea
In 1978, the Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner was the first person to reach six of the Seven Summits (1971 Puncak Jaya, 1974 Aconcagua, 1976 Mount McKinley (now Denali), 1978 Kilimanjaro, 1978 Mount Everest). For Messner, Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya) was the highest peak in Australia (Messner list), but in 1983, he climbed Mount ...
Another list is called "The Bass List", named after Richard Bass, the first mountaineer to complete his particular list of "Seven Summits" which omitted Puncak Jaya in Indonesia. This results in the list for the "Eight Summits", including both Puncak Jaya (also named Carstensz Pyramid or abbreviated as CP) and Mount Kosciuszko (abbreviated as K).
The Jayawijaya Mountains, formerly known as the Orange Range, are the eastern mountain range of the Maoke Mountains in the central highlands region of the Indonesian part of New Guinea. The range extends for 370 kilometres (230 mi) east of the Sudirman Range to the Star Mountains. Its highest point is Puncak Mandala at 4,760
The highest point in Indonesia is Puncak Jaya, in Central Papua, at 4,884 metres (16,024 feet), which ranks the country as 28th by highest point [citation needed]. Several of the peaks in the list are unnamed, and are better known by the mountain range in which they are located:
Although the south side of the mountain is occupied by a ski resort, the north side has no facilities at all and the climbers faced a difficult ice climb. [ 5 ] The core team summited the Vinson Massif , Antarctica (4,892 m) on December 13, 2010, becoming the first Indonesians to ever reach the peak. [ 6 ]
Weisshorn (4,507 m) / Its first ascent popularised mountain climbing culture Eiger Switzerland: 3,967 362: 3,605 Mönch (4,099 m) / Famed for its dangerous North face climb Pidurutalagala Sri Lanka: 2,524 2,524: 0 Mount Pico Portugal: 2,351 2,351: 0 none/ HP Portugal, HP Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Moldoveanu Romania: 2,544 2,046: 498 Făgăraș Mountains