Notable Features
Namcha rises 5,000 to 6,800 metres above the Yarlung Tsangpo. After 7,795 metre Batura Sar in the Karakoram was climbed in 1976, Namcha Barwa became the highest unclimbed independent mountain in the world., until it was finally climbed in 1992.
Frank Kingdon-Ward described in the 1920's, "a quaint prophecy among the Kongbo Tibetans that Namche Barwa will one day fall into the Tsangpo gorge and block the river, which will then turn aside and flow over the Doshong La . This is recorded in a book by some fabulous person whose image may be seen in the little gompa at Payi, in Pome. " (126-7)
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