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Peak is Swadesh Nai Swarga's encyclopedia of the mountains of Nepal. It opens with an interactive 3D Himalaya and profiles of the eight mountains in Nepal above 8,000 metres, and every hard fact on it carries its source.
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Peak: themountains ofNepal,documentedwith sources
Much of what is written about Nepal's mountains is written from somewhere else, for the climbers who visit. Figures get copied from page to page until nobody knows where they came from, and the Nepali and Sherpa people who made the climbs possible appear as support staff in someone else's story. Peak is our attempt to do it the other way round.
What is on Peak now
- An interactive 3D Himalaya, built from open elevation data (SRTM and other open models). Heights in the 3D view are exaggerated so the range is legible; every label shows the true elevation.
- Profiles of the eight mountains in Nepal above 8,000 metres: Everest (Sagarmatha), Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and Annapurna.
Climbing history, routes, base camps and permits for each mountain come in the next phase, each with its own sources.
Every fact carries its source
Every hard fact on Peak, whether an elevation, a coordinate, a first ascent or a permit rule, carries its sources and a status that says how sure we are:
- Published by a surveying or government authority.
- Agreed across independent reference sources.
- Disputed, where sources disagree. Peak then shows the competing figures side by side.
- Derived or approximate, and labelled as such.
- Unknown, where we have no source we trust yet. Peak never fills the gap with a guess.
Each profile also shows when it was last updated and its editorial status. Everest's height, for example, is the figure from the joint Nepal and China survey announced in 2020.
Written from Nepal outward
Peak names and credits Nepali and Sherpa climbers, guides, porters and surveyors as the protagonists of this history. On Peak, the first ascent of Everest on 29 May 1953 is credited to Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary.
Help us get it right
If a figure is wrong or you know a better source, send a correction from the mountain's page, with the page and your source. Community contributions, with review and revision history, are planned.
