{"id":15696,"date":"2023-10-10T11:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15696"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:40:15","slug":"mount-kun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-kun\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Kun"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mount Kun<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mount Kun, with a <strong>height of 7077 meters<\/strong>, is the <strong>second-highest peak of the Nun Kun massif<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>massif is located<\/strong> near Sankoo in the <strong>Suru valley, Kargil district, Ladakh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The twin peaks of <strong>Nun (7135 meters) and Kunare separated by a snow plateau<\/strong> that <strong>extends for around 4 kilometers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are among the <strong>highest peaks in the Zanskar Range<\/strong> on the Indian side of the Line of Control.<\/li>\n<li><strong>These two towering peaks and their satellites<\/strong>; Barmal, White Needle and Pinnacle Peak <strong>form a horseshoe above the Suru riveron the boarder of Kashmir and Zanskar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mountaineering:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>first person<\/strong> to climb the Kun peak <strong>was Italian mountaineer Mario Piacenza in the year 1913.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>However, it <strong>took 58 years for an Indian Army Expedition to successfully climb<\/strong> the mountain again.<\/li>\n<li>The climb to the summit is <strong>technically challenging and demands extensive knowledge <\/strong>of mountaineering techniques like using ice axes, roping up procedures, crampons, and jumar climbing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key Facts about Zanskar Range:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Zanskar Range is situated in the <strong>Ladakh region of northern India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It lies to the <strong>north of the Great Himalayan Range<\/strong> and <strong>runs parallel to it.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The range <strong>stretches for <\/strong>approximately <strong>400 kilometers (250 miles) from the western end of <\/strong>the Indian state of <strong>Himachal Pradesh to the eastern border of Ladakh with Tibet<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>separates Ladakh from the valleys of Kashmir and the Chenab River<\/strong> on one end, and <strong>Kinnaur from Spiti in the Himachal Pradesh<\/strong> region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elevation:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>average height<\/strong> is about <strong>6,000 m<\/strong> (19,700 ft).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>highest peak<\/strong> in the Zanskar Range <strong>is Kamet, which is 7,756 meters<\/strong> (25,446 feet) high.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Passes<\/strong>: Most important passes are <strong>Zojila, Shipki, Lipu Lekh<\/strong> (Lipulieke), and <strong>Mana<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li><strong>Many rivers originatingin<\/strong> different branches of <strong>this rangeflow northward<\/strong>, and <strong>join the great Indus River<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These rivers include <strong>Shingo River, Zanskar River, Hanle River<\/strong>, <strong>Suru River<\/strong> (Indus), and <strong>Khurna River<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is an avalanche?<\/h3>\n<p>An avalanche is a rapid and often violent flow of snow, ice, and debris down a mountain or slope. It is a natural phenomenon that occurs when there is a disturbance in the stability of a snowpack on a steep terrain. Avalanches can vary in size and speed, ranging from small, relatively harmless slides to large and destructive ones.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/army-jawan-killed-3-missing-after-avalanche-hits-mount-kun-in-ladakh-4465648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Army Jawan Killed, 3 Missing After Avalanche Hits Mount Kun In Ladakh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Kun, with a height of 7077 meters, is the second-highest peak of the Nun Kun massif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}