Stok Kangri

and is often climbed as an initial non-technical foray into high altitude mountaineering. In July and August, all but the top of the peak may be snow-free, as can be seen by clicking on coord|33|59|11|N|77|26|32|E and following the Google Earth link, which leads to some excellent new high resolution satellite imagery. This assumes that Google Earth is installed. The elevation data was verified by GPS readings from 11 satellites at the Summit during a late July 2007 joint Nepalese-US expedition which encountered snow cover for 85% of the final four hour, four km, 900 meter climb.

The shortest and most popular approach to the peak ascends the Stok valley, along the Stok Chu. This valley's grazing landscape, especially near the village Stok, was decimated by flooding in the first week of August 2006, the most severe in decades.