Hkakabo Razi

Where is Hkakabo Razi?

Hkakabo Razi is part of the Eastern Himalaya, Kachin State.

You will find it in: Myanmar.

Summit: 28.328° N, 97.536° E

The story behind it

Getting to the foot of this mountain is already an expedition: a team in 2014 needed about a month of boats, trains and roughly 240 kilometres of jungle walking before the climbing even began. The summit stands in Kachin State, close to the corner where Myanmar, India and China meet, inside a national park full of forest that almost nobody visits. Takashi Ozaki from Japan and Nyima Gyaltsen from Myanmar reported reaching the top on 15 September 1996 after a hanging glacier and eight steep rock pitches. Because they carried no GPS, the height was never measured on the summit itself, and later climbers began to doubt whether the true high point had been reached. The 2014 team turned back at 5 742 metres, judging that the last rocky teeth were too much to cross safely. Meanwhile a rival peak 6.6 kilometres away, Gamlang Razi, was measured by GPS in 2013 at 5 870 metres, so which mountain is really the highest in Myanmar is still an open question.

Find it on the globe

Hkakabo Razi is there as a small peak with its own shape — a horn, a ridge, a volcano — standing on the surface. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.

It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.