What is the highest peak in BHUTAN?

Question

IS IT KULA KANGRI, OR CHOMOH LAHRI?

Answer 1

Highest Peaks In Bhutan

1. Gangkhar Puensum — Elevation: 7,570 metres (24,836 feet)

2. Kula Kangri — Elevation: 7,554 metres (24,784 feet) - Alot of contreversy whether this mountain is actually in Bhutan.

3. Chomolhari — Elevation: 7,314 metres (23,997 feet)

Answer 2

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Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan-elevation 7570 metres(24,836 feet)

Gangkhar Puensum is the highest mountain in Bhutan and the highest unclimbed mountain in the world with an elevation of 7570 metres and a prominence of over 2990 metres. After Bhutan was opened for mountaineering in 1983 there were four expeditions that made failed summit attempts in 1985 and 1986. However, in 1998, a team from Tibet successfully climbed a subsidiary peak of the mountain.

Gangkhar Puensum, alternative transliteration Gangkar Punsum or Gankar Punzum, (meaning 3 mountain siblings"), had its altitude first measured in 1922, but maps of the region are not at all accurate and the mountain is shown in different locations and with markedly different heights. Indeed, because of inadequate mapping, the first team to attempt the summit was unable to find the mountain at all.

The book of the 1986 British expedition gives the mountain's height as 24,770 feet and states that Gangkhar Puensum is completely inside Bhutan whereas the nearby Kula Kangri is completely inside Tibet. Kula Kangri, 7554 metres, is a separate mountain 30 km to the northeast, which was first climbed in 1986. It is variously mapped and described as being in Tibet or Bhutan.