Bairiga

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title: "Bairiga" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountains-of-tibet", "six-thousanders-of-the-himalayas", "ultra-prominent-peaks-of-asia"] description: "Mountain in Tibet, China" topic_path: "general/mountains-of-tibet" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairiga" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Mountain in Tibet, China ::

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Field	Value
name	Bairiga
photo	Ruoni.jpg
photo_caption	Ruoni and Lopchin
elevation_m	6882
elevation_ref
prominence_m	2444
prominence_ref
listing
range	Kangri Garpo
map	China Tibet topography#China
map_caption	Location in Tibet Autonomous Region and China
map_size	284
location	Tibet Autonomous Region, China
label_position	top
coordinates
coordinates_ref
first_ascent	unclimbed
easiest_route	snow/ice/glacier climb
other_name	Ruoni
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Bairiga () or Ruoni () (6,882 m) is the highest peak of Kangri Garpo Range of southeast Tibet Autonomous Region.

History

The region has only recently been explored, and before 2009 none of its 47 peaks above 6,000 m had been climbed. Bairiga / Ruoni, which remains unclimbed itself, was photographed for the first time in 1933 by the botanist explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward, at which time it was known as Choembo.

In October 2003, a Japanese team attempted to climb Ruoni I via the northeast ridge. Some progress was made above two different Camp Is but avalanche risk, a huge snow cornice and a 10 day snow fall stopped the team from finding a suitable route to the summit.

In 2009, a Sino-Japanese joint climbing team formed by China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and Kobe University organized an expedition to climb Kangri Garpo II or Ruoni II (6,805 m). On November 5, Deqing Ouzhu and Ciren Danda, Tibetan students with the CUG, were the first to reach the summit, while Koichiro Kondo and Masanori Yazaki scaled the peak two days later. In consultation with a local village leader Kangri Garpo II was renamed Lopchin (Lopchin Feng in Tibetan, Lou bu qin in Chinese), meaning "white male hawk".

References

| title=Kangri Garpo Range | journal=Himalayan Journal | first=Tamotsu |last=Nakamura | year=2001 | volume=57 | access-date=2025-07-10}} | department=Climbs And Expeditions | first=Kazumasa | last=Hirai | translator=Tamotsu Nakamura | year=2004 | volume=46 | issue=78 | pages=431 | access-date=2025-07-10}} | department=Climbs And Expeditions | first=Tatsuo “Tim” | last=Inoue | year=2010 | volume=52 | issue=84 | pages=354 | access-date=2025-07-10 | links=off}}

References

1. {{cite peakbagger
2. "Tibet Ultra-Prominences".
3. Tatsuo "Tim" Inoue (2011), [http://acku.net/acku.net-Appalachia-2012Summer-Fall/JAN2011_Hidden_Six-thousanders_Kangri_Garpo_v1.3.pdf Hidden 47 Six-thousanders in the Kangri Garpo Mountains], Japanese Alpine News 2011
4. "中国地质大学体育部".
5. (June 2019). ja

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