Asia, Nepal, Kanjiroba Himal

Publication Year: 1963.

Kanjiroba Himal. A British all-woman expedition under the leadership of Countess Dorothea Gravina climbed the two highest peaks in the Kanjiroba Himal. The higher (22,000 feet) was provisionally named Pinnacle Peak after the club to which all six expedition members belong. Josephine Scarr and Barbara Spark with the Sherpas Norbu and Mingma Tsering made the first ascent on May 14, and Dr. Nancy Smith and Patricia Wood climbed to the summit the next day with two other Sherpas. They also climbed a hitherto unnamed and unclimbed peak, the highest in the Jagdula Himal. Denise Evans was also a member of the party.