Mt. Namonani - 7,694 Meters and Surrounding Unclimbed Peaks

Duration: 35 days
Months offered: Spring, Summer Fall
Costs: From $6,500

Namonani is the highest peak in the Gurla range, located in western Tibet 100 km south of sacred Mt. Kailash. It was climbed in 1987 by a joint Sino-Japanese team. The landscape around this peak includes nomad inhabited high plains, huge turquoise lakes, and the neighboring Kailash range to the north. The landscape makes the journey to this peak almost as enjoyable as the climb itself. Namonani offers an extremely wide variety of terrain ranging from difficult mixed routes up the vertical north face, to gradual walk ups along the NE ridge. There are two ways of reaching Namonani. A four day drive from Lhasa takes one across Tibet along the foothills of the Himalaya. A four to five day journey from Kashgar along the extremely remote Tibet-Xinjiang highway affords spectacular views of high deserts and mountains in the Aksai Chin region of north west China.