A must Read Mount Kailash :: 6,638 m Mount Kailash (also Mount Kailas; Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche; simplified Chinese: 冈仁波齐峰, Gāngrénbōqí fēng, Sanskrit: कैलास Kailāsa) is a peak in the Kailas Range (Gangdisê Mountains), which forms part of the Transhimalaya in Tibet. It lies near the source of some of the longest rivers in Asia: the Indus River, the Sutlej River (a major tributary of the Indus River), the Brahmaputra River, and the Karnali River (a tributary of the River Ganga). It is considered a sacred place in four religions: Bön, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. The mountain lies near Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal in Tibet In 1926, Hugh Ruttledge studied the north face, which he estimated was 6,000 ft (1,800 m) high and utterly unclimbable and thought about an ascent of the northeast ridge, but he ran out of time. Ruttledge had been exploring the area with Colonel R. C. Wilson, who was on the other side of the mountain with his Sherpa named Satan. According to Wilson, Satan told Wilson, Sahib, we can climb that! ... as he too saw that this [the SE ridge] represented a feasible route to the summit. Further excerpts from Wilsons article in the Alpine Journal (vol. 40, 1928) show that he was serious about climbing Kailash, but he also ran out of time. Herbert Tichy was in the area in 1936, attempting to climb Gurla Mandhata. When he asked one of the Garpons of Ngari whether Kailash was climbable, the Garpon replied, Only a man entirely free of sin could climb Kailas. And he wouldnt have to actually scale the sheer walls of ice to do it – hed just turn himself into a bird and fly to the summit.[19] Reinhold Messner was given the opportunity by the Chinese government to climb in the mid-1980s but he declined. In 2001 the Chinese gave permission for a Spanish team to climb the peak, but in the face of international disapproval the Chinese decided to ban all attempts to climb the mountain. Messner, referring to the Spanish plans, said, If we conquer this mountain, then we conquer something in peoples souls ... I would suggest they go and climb something a little harder. Kailash is not so high and not so hard.. 1. The north face of Mount Kailash . 2. The south face of Mount Kailash .
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