The permit from the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism stipulated that the summit could only be reached if an equal number of climbers from both nations were on the summit team | Notable features [ ] The mountain has two summits, the northern higher summit being called Shankar a manifestation of and the southern summit being called Gauri a manifestation of Shiva's consort |
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The name comes from the Hindu goddess Gauri, a manifestation of , and her consort , denoting the sacred regard to which it is afforded it by the people of Nepal | From 1965 until 1979, the mountain was officially closed for climbing |
Literary References [ ] Gaurishankar is mentioned in Russian writer 's novel to liken the "massifs of delirium" and the "menacing nature of a day's events" to a plurality of the Himalayan mountain | The Himalayan Index lists only two additional ascents of the main summit of Gauri Sankar |
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To the north lies the Menlung Chu, which separates it from its sister peak | The name the mountain as Jomo Tseringma |
To the south lies the Rolwaling Chu, which leads up to the Tesi Lapcha pass, giving access to the region.
3The second ascent was made in the spring of 1984 by Wyman Culbreth and Ang Kami Sherpa, via a new route on a ridge on the southwest face | It took them 11 hours to descend to the bottom of the face |
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Corrected versions of SRTM data• In 1983 Gaurishankar was reached again by a Slovenian team | Boardman, Tim Leach, Guy Neidhardt, and Pemba Lama made it to the south "Gauri" summit 7010m |
They climbed the left side of the South Face to reach the Southwest Ridge, then continuing to the main summit.