The Buni Zom group is a prominent mountain area of

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, in the

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range of

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. Buni Zom (main) is the highest peak of the group with an elevation of . It is located about 50 km (30 mi) northeast of the town of Chitral, and about 50 km (30 mi) east of

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. In 1957, the New Zealanders W.K.A. Berry and C.H. Tyndale-Biscoe accomplished the first ascent of the Main Peak of Buni Zom from the steep razorlike north ridge''New Zealand Alpine Journal'' 17, 1958, page 283-292. However th
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reports this ascent as having taken the Southwest Ridge. The second ascent was in 1975 by Japanese Masao Okabe, Hideo Sato and Shigeru TabeAmerican Alpine Journal 1976, Vol 20, Issue 50. pp 458 and third ascent was in 1979 by Americans Joe Reinhard and Richard J. IsherwoodAmerican Alpine Journal 1980, Vol 22, Issue 53. pp 654 both from south face. The Buni Zom group has many other peaks, some of which have been climbed. There are 12 peaks over in the Buni Zom group which are unclimbe
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Peaks of the Buni Zom Group

Following is a list of the peaks over 6,000 meters in the Buni Zom group, from the Himalayan Index. The first ascent of the peak named Buni Zom SS or 6MT or P6110 was by Nikolas Kroupis and George Voutiropoulos on 31 July 2007. This climb is not yet recorded in the Himalayan Index, but the article is published in

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.The American Alpine Journal 2008, The World's Most Significant Climbs, American Alpine Club, Vol. 50, Issue 82, 2008, pp 319-321.

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Northern Pakistan detailed placemarks in Google Earth
Mountains of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Six-thousanders of the Hindu Raj {{KhyberPakhtunkhwa-geo-stub

Peaks of the Buni Zom Group

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