A 10-member joint team climbed the summit of the 6,257-metre mountain — known locally as Chekigo — on Monday, two weeks after the expedition began, Dhaka’s foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday.[break]
“Now the peak will be named as the Bangladesh-Nepal Friendship Peak,” it said.
The mountain, which is on the Nepal-Tibet border northeast of Kathmandu, in Dolkha district, had not been formally named before, Bangladeshi expedition team chief M A Muhit said last month.
Five previous attempts had been made by European trekkers, the latest in 2009 by a Norwegian team, but all failed due to technical difficulties.
The Nepali government recognises 120 unclaimed peaks in its portion of the Himalayas, but mountaineers say there may be up to 400 more.
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