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Unclimbed peak in Arunachal Pradesh
October 2 , 2024
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- A 15-member team from the National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) has scaled an unclimbed peak in the Tawang-West Kameng region of Arunachal Pradesh.
- They named it as ‘Tsangyang Gyatso Peak’ in honour of the 6th Dalai Lama.
- The peak, at a height of 6,383 metres above sea level in the Gorichen range of Arunachal Pradesh Himalayas.
- The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, was born in 1682 in Arunachal Pradesh’s Mon Tawang.
- He was enthroned as the Sixth Dalai Lama at the age of 14 in 1697.
- In 1706, he was invited to China and died on the way.
- China calls Arunachal Pradesh as Zangnan.
- Also, China has been renaming places in Arunachal Pradesh since 2017 to assert its claims.
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