Parent range Himalaya Prominence 997 m | Elevation 7,077 m Range Himalayas | |
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Easiest route Northeast Ridge: glacier/snow/ice climb | ||
Stunning sunrise glow over the nun kun peaks
The Kun Peak is a part of Nun Kun mountain massif. It is the second highest summit of the massif with elevation of 23,219 ft (7,077 metres) in the eastern Himalayan Range, located near the Suru valley, on Kargil Zanskar road 80 kilometers west of Kargil town and 290 kilometers east of Srinagar, the state capital of Jammu and Kashmir,
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Map of Kun, 194301
The Kun Peak is located north of Nun Peak 23,409 ft (7,135 metres) which is the highest summit of the massif and is separated from it by a snowy plateau of 4 km in length, in the northeast just at the 2 km of distance rises another peak of the massif known as Pinnacle Peak 22,740 ft (6,930 metres).
Mountaineering
The Nun Kun massif was first sighted in 1898 and three visits by Arthur Neve, in 1902, 1904, and 1910. In 1903, Dutch mountaineer Dr. H. Sillem investigated the massif and discovered the high plateau between the peaks; he reached an altitude of 6,400 m (21,000 ft) on Nun. In 1906, the Pinnacle Peak was first ascended by a noted explorer couple Fanny Bullock Workman and her husband William Hunter Workman. They also toured extensively through the massif and produced a map; however, controversy surrounded the Workmans' claims, and few trigonometrical points were given for the region, so that the map they produced was not usable. The Kun Peak was first successfully climbed by an Italian mountaineering team led by Mario Piacenza, Lorenzo Borelli in 1913.
The massif is accessed by 210 kilometers by road from Srinagar NH 1D up to Kargil and then 80 kilometers via Kargil Zanskar road.