Namcha Barwa
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The Namjagbarwa (Tibetan: "lightning ray") is a 7782 m high peak of the Himalayas.
It is located in Mêdog County (me tog rdzong མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང། / Mòtuō Xiàn 墨脱县) in Nyingchi County of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.
Namjagbarwa is the most easterly mountain with an altitude above 7600m. It lies on the great bend of the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra headwaters). It was seen in 1913 by F. M. Bailey on his Tsangpo expedition as the first European. To the north of this bend lies the Gyala Peri, which is hardly less high at 7294m. From 1976 until the first and until today only ascent by a Chinese-Japanese expedition with Bianba Zaxi and others in 1992, Namjagbarwa was the highest unclimbed mountain on earth.
