This Is The World’s Highest Unclimbed Mountain, Know The Reason

It is widely known that the highest mountain peak in the world, Mount Everest, has already been conquered. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary trekked up the mountain and reached the peak of Mount Everest in May 1953. Have you ever wondered which is the highest unconquered mountain peak in the world? With a height of 7,570 metres, Gangkhar Puensum stands as the world’s tallest unclimbed peak. Muchu Chhish, at 7,453 metres, is the second-tallest unclimbed summit in the world. An alternative name for Gangkhar Puensum is White Peak of the Three Spiritual Brothers. It is on the boundary between Tibet and Bhutan, but there are disagreements regarding its precise location.

Gangkhar Puensum is closed, that’s why it cannot be climbed. Bhutanese customs and traditions hold that mountains are particularly sacred and that gods and spirits reside there. Mountaineers have, however, attempted to ascend it. Four expeditions following Bhutan’s 1983 opening to mountaineering culminated in unsuccessful attempts to reach the summit in 1985 and 1986. Bhutan started outlawing climbing mountains greater than 6,000 metres in 1996. A group of Japanese mountaineers attempted to ascend Gangkhar Puensum from the Chinese side in the late 1990s, but their permit was revoked. Rather, they ascended Liankang Kangri, a secondary peak spanning two km to the north at 7,535 metres.

Virgin peaks are the names given to unclimbed mountains. Because of the mountain’s inaccessibility, owing to either political unrest or topographical seclusion, there are numerous uninhabited peaks. Certain mountains are off-limits because of the religious convictions of a nation or area that views them as holy and ought to be kept untouchable. Among them is Mount Kailash, a mountain rising to a height of 6,638 m (21,778 ft) in the Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is located in the western portion of the Tibetan Plateau, in the Kailash Range (Gangdisê Mountains) in the Trans Himalaya. Four major religions — Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Bon — all revere Mount Kailash as sacred.