Manaslu

Where is Manaslu?

Manaslu is part of the Mansiri Himal, Himalayas.

You will find it in: Nepal.

Summit: 28.550° N, 84.560° E

The story behind it

The people who live below Manaslu have their own history with it. In 1954 the villagers of Samagaon turned a Japanese expedition away: avalanches had destroyed their monastery, and they believed the earlier climbers had upset the mountain. The quarrel only settled after the visitors helped pay for the monastery to be rebuilt, and Japanese climbers stayed away for years afterwards. On 9 May 1956 Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu finally reached the summit, and Manaslu became known in Japan much as Everest is known in Britain. It is a beautiful mountain and a dangerous one: its upper slopes carry huge overhanging cornices of snow that can break off without warning, which is why it is counted among the harder eight-thousanders despite its gentle look from a distance.

Find it on the globe

Manaslu 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.