{"id":27156,"date":"2025-11-09T01:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27156"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:37:36","slug":"mount-dhaulagiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-dhaulagiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Dhaulagiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mount Dhaulagiri<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>seventh-highest mountain<\/strong> in the world.<\/li>\n<li>It has an elevation of <strong>8,167 meters<\/strong> (26,795 feet) above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>It is located in the Dhaulagiri Himal Mountain range of <strong>west-central Nepal<\/strong> and is part of the Himalayan Mountain range.<\/li>\n<li>It is also <strong>one of the &#8220;eight-thousanders<\/strong>&#8221; \u2014 the <strong>fourteen mountains on Earth<\/strong> that are <strong>more than 8,000 metres<\/strong> (26,247 ft) above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>Dhaulagiri means &#8220;<strong>white mountain&#8221;<\/strong> in Sanskrit, and it is known for its <strong>snowy peaks <\/strong>and <strong>glaciers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is the highest mountain located entirely within Nepal.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It extends about 120km from the Kaligandaki River to the Bheri River in the west.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also the highest point of the Gandaki River Basin.<\/li>\n<li>It is one <strong>of the most challenging mountains to climb<\/strong> due to its difficult terrain and unpredictable weather conditions.\n<ul>\n<li>The first successful expedition to Mt. Dhaulagiri was led by the Swiss climber, Max Eiselin, in 1960.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Which are the main tributaries of Gandaki river?<\/h3>\n<p>Major Tributaries are Daraudi, Seti, Madi, Marsyandi, and Budhi Gandaki.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/fall-claims-lives-of-five-russian-climbers-on-nepals-mount-dhaulagiri\/articleshow\/114039417.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fall claims lives of five Russian climbers on Nepal&#8217;s Mount Dhaulagiri<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Dhaulagiri is the seventh-highest mountain in the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27156","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\/27156","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=27156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}