Namcha Barwa

English Alternative forms en Namjagbarwa Etymology en Pronunciation nŭm′chŭ bŭr′vŭNamcha Barwa 1279 3 Proper noun 1 en mountain county/Mêdog prefecture-level city/Nyingchi ar:Suf/Tibet c/China. en March 7, 1985 w:Michael Kernan Call of the Climb w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230901103750/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/03/07/call-of-the-climb/bc110fc4-f540-4a64-823d-38f8190e8e46/ 01 September 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/03/07/call-of-the-climb/bc110fc4-f540-4a64-823d-38f8190e8e46/ 0190-8286 2269358 Today, with nearly all the great peaks already climbed (except Namcha Barwa, 25,700 feet, which the Chinese are reserving for themselves, having tried and failed three times so far), mountaineers try for new and harder routes, as well as faster times, forever narrowing the safety margin. en 1998 Soli Mehta; w:Harish Kapadia Sikkim and Assam Himalaya Exploring the Hidden Himalaya https://archive.org/details/exploringhiddenh0000soli/ 2nd revised and updated New Delhi Indus Publishing Company 81-7387-077-2 49655955 40 https://archive.org/details/exploringhiddenh0000soli/page/42/ Namcha Barwa (7782 m) finally fell to the Japanese efforts. Two Japanese-Chinese expeditions recceed the peak in 1990 and 1991. Translations mountain References Further reading en 1998 Namjagbarwa Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2113 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2113/ 1 Also spelled as Namcha Barwa.