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Mt. Kabru at sunrise, Sikkim (2013). The 7338 m summit of Kabru is the site of a mountaineering altitude record, either in 1883 or in 1905.The English barrister William Graham, the Swiss hotelier Emil Boss and the Swiss mountain guide Ulrich Kaufmann reported to have reached a point 30-40 feet below this summit, which Graham described as "little more than a pillar of ice", at 2pm on October 8 ...
A secondary summit of Kabru is one of the tallest that is unclimbed It is unclear which is the highest unclimbed non-prohibited mountain. While some recognize only peaks with 100 m (330 ft) of topographical prominence as individual summits, the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation uses a 30 m (98 ft) cutoff for determining ...
A ridge leads north over the middle peak to the main peak of Kangchenjunga. To the east, a ridge branches off to Zemu Kang (7,730 m). To the south, the ridge continues over Hogsback Peak (7,379 m) and Talung (7,349 m) to Kabru.
In 1935, alone and without oxygen, he reached the summit of Kabru North. His achievement remained the highest solo climb until 1953. [1] He was born in Mussoorie, India, where his father was an engineer with the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. [2] His mother was sister to Geoffrey Rothe Clarke. [3]
William Woodman Graham by unknown photographer. William Woodman Graham (1859 – fl. 1932) was a British mountaineer who led the first pure mountaineering expedition to the Himalayas and may have set a world altitude record on Kabru. [1]
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This summit of the Frey Peak is located in the neighbourhood of Rathong Glacier, Kabru, and Kokthang. On its north, the Rathong Glacier is located. [2] This mountain is named after the mountaineer George Frey, who perished climbing this peak with Tenzing Norgay in 1951. Norgey advised Frey to put on his crampons, but Frey disregarded this ...
Graham, Boss and Kaufmann may have climbed to 30 ft below 7,338 m Kabru N in 1883; if true they set an altitude record which stood for 26 years. The first pure mountaineers (as opposed to surveyors) to have climbed in the Himalaya were the English barrister William Graham , the Swiss hotelier Emil Boss and the Swiss mountain guide Ulrich ...