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Chaukhamba is a 
Image:Chaukhamba from Tungnath Morning vvnataraj.JPG, Chaukhamba from Tungnath
Image:Chaukhamba from Tungnath Early Morning vvnataraj.JPG, Chaukhamba from Tungnath shortly after sunrise
Image:Chaukhamba from Madhyamaheshwar (Old).jpg
Image:Chaukhamba moonlit from Kartikswamy temple.jpg, Moonlit Chaukhamba from the Kartikswamy temple
Image:Chowkhamba mountain.jpg, Chowkhamba
mountain
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massif
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in the Gangotri Group of the Garhwal Himalaya
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. Its main summit, Chaukhamba I, is the highest peak in the group. It lies at the head of the Gangotri Glacier
Gangotri (Sanskrit and hi, गंगोत्री) is located in Uttarkashi District, Uttarakhand, India in a region bordering Tibet. This glacier, one of the primary sources of the Ganges, has a volume of over 27 cubic kilometers. The glaci ...
and forms the eastern anchor of the group.Andy Fanshawe and Stephen Venables, ''Himalaya Alpine-Style'', Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, , p. 106. It is located in the northern India
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n state of Uttarakhand
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, west of the Hindu
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holy town of Badrinath
Badrinath is a town and nagar panchayat in Chamoli district in the state of Uttarakhand, India. A Hindu holy place, it is one of the four sites in India's Char Dham pilgrimage and is also part of India's Chota Char Dham pilgrimage circuit. ...
.
Chaukhamba has four summits, along a northeast–southwest trending ridge, and ranging in elevation from to with an average elevation 7,014 m; the main summit is at the northeast end.
After unsuccessful attempts in 1938 and 1939, Chaukhamba I was first climbed on 13 June 1952, by Lucien George and Victor Russenberger ( Swiss members of an otherwise French expedition). They ascended the northeast face, from the Bhagirathi-Kharak Glacier. The other members of the expedition were the French alpinist and traveler Marie-Louise Plovier Chapelle and the renown French alpinist and climber Edouard Frendo.
Chaukhamba I is an ultra-prominent peak, with a prominence of more than 1,500m. Mana Pass
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, elevation_m = 5632
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, traversed = India National Highway NH58
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is the key col for Chaukhamba I.
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See also
*List of Himalayan peaks of Uttarakhand
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* * Geography of Uttarkashi district Mountains of Uttarakhand {{Uttarakhand-geo-stub