Panbari (alternatively, Panbari or Cho Himal) is a 6,887 m peak in Gandaki Pradesh, the Nepalese

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More than list of h ...

. It is part of the Manaslu sub range and sits just outside the

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. It is highest at the western side of the ridge. Panbari is situated just north of the Larkya La pass, which runs from the east to west. The nearest neighbor to Panbari is

Nemjung Nemjung is a mountain in the Himalayas of Nepal. It is located approximately northwest of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and about northwest of the eight-thousander, Manaslu. Its summit has an elevation of . This mountain was once called Himlung ...

, which lies 4.11 miles to the west-northwest. Himlung II and Himlung Himal lie to the northwest, at 4.83 and 5.19 miles away, respectively. Panbari was first opened to foreign expeditions in 2002. In 2006, a Japanese university expedition team climbed the mountain in

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. Expedition members Yoshimi Kato, Gakuto Komiya, Sayaka Koyama,

Kenro Nakajima Takeo "Kenro" Nakajima (中島健郎; October 19, 1984 – July 27, 2024) was a Japanese elite alpinist and cameraman who won three Piolets d'Or, Piolet d'Or awards, considered to be the highest achievement in mountaineering. In 2018, Nakajima a ...

, and Yousuke Urabe made the first ascent on September 27, 2006.

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