{"id":27204,"date":"2024-10-12T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T04:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27204"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:22:47","slug":"chaukhamba-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chaukhamba-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaukhamba Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Chaukhamba Peak:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>four-pillar shaped<\/strong> enormous peak located in the northern Indian state of <strong>Uttarakhand<\/strong>, west of the Hindu holy town of Badrinath.<\/li>\n<li>It is a mountain massif that has four summits, along a northeast-southwest trending ridge situated in the <strong>Gangotri group of the Garhwal Himalayas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Being named as Chaukhamba Peak I, II, III, and IV, all of them have different elevations that lie between 7,138 m and 6,854 m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chaukhamba peak I <\/strong>remain the <strong>tallest of all<\/strong> the four summits, i.e., 7,138 m above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>towers above the Gangotri glacier,<\/strong> forming the eastern anchor of the group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>:What is a Glacier?<\/h3>\n<p>A glacier is a large, perennial accumulation of crystalline ice, snow, rock, sediment, and often liquid water that originates on land and moves down slope under the influence of its own weight and gravity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/dehradun-news\/iaf-choppers-rescue-2-foreign-woman-mountaineers-stranded-near-chaukhamba-3-peak-101728197194117.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> IAF choppers rescue 2 foreign women mountaineers stranded near Chaukhamba-3 peak<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaukhamba Peak is a four-pillar shaped enormous peak located in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, west of the Hindu holy town of Badrinath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27204","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\/27204","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=27204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}