Standing as the tallest unclimbed mountain in the world – Gangkhar Puensum is also the highest mountain in Bhutan. Also known as ‘White Peak of the Three Spiritual Brothers’, Gangkhar Puensum is believed to be a holy place. Bhutan tour packages Why is it still unclimbed? This majestic pe...
The kingdom has subtropical plains in the south with thickly growing grass and plants and sub-alpine Himalayan mountains in the north, which include Gangkhar Puensum, Bhutan’s highest peak and believed to be the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. ...
The Snowman Trek is an extension of the beautiful Laya Gasa Trek, and leads from Laya into high altitudes of the Bhutanese Himalayas. It takes tough and enduring trekkers into the Lunana region and further on to Gangkhar Puensum and Bumthang or down to Sephu in Trongsa district, depending...
The great thing with climbing is that there are more 6500m peaks in the world that are unclimbed than there are climbed, so when people proclaim that ‘adventure is dead’ they’re clearly not thinking outside the box. Just off the top of my head there’s the north ridge of Latok One...