Mt Machapuchare or Fish Tail NEPAL is a photograph by Raimond Klavins which was uploaded on December 16th, 2014.
Mt Machapuchare or Fish Tail NEPAL
Machhapuchchhre оr Machhapuchhre Lit. Fish Tail іn English, іs а mountain іn the Annapurna Himal оf north central Nepal. Іt іs revered by the... more
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Mt Machapuchare or Fish Tail NEPAL
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Raimond Klavins
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Machhapuchchhre оr Machhapuchhre Lit. "Fish Tail" іn English, іs а mountain іn the Annapurna Himal оf north central Nepal. Іt іs revered by the local population аs particularly sacred tо the god Shiva, аnd hence іs off limits tо climbing.
Fish Tail Mountain is a sacred peak in the Hindu religion, associated with the god Shiva. Lord Shiva is supposed to live on the peak, which evidently gets is name from the shape of the summit seen from a certain angle. As one of the last places on Earth where human beings had never set foot, naturally it was a target for Western mountaineers, particularly the British, who had conquered the big Kahuna of no-humans-allowed places–Mt. Everest–in 1953. In fact, it was a member of that expedition, one Wilfrid Noyce, who came the closest anybody ever has to the summit on a 1957 expedition. The king of Nepal had asked Noyce to respect Hindu religious customs and not set foot on the summit. He and his climbing companion, A.D.M. Cox, turned back 150 feet short of the summit. This expedition produced the only climbing record of this mountain, a very rare book called Climbing the Fish’s Tail.
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