Bhagirathi III

Bhagirathi III, seen from the left bank of the Gangotri Glacier, Garhwal. Bhagirathi III (6454m) was first climbed in 1933 by Colin Kirkus and Charles Warren. Kirkus was a brilliant rock-climber from Britain who made ground-breaking ascents in North Wales and the Peak District but stood oddly outside the Himalayan climbing clique of that age. Their route is invisible from this viewpoint The South-West Pillar, in the sunshine on the right of the picture, was first climbed by Scots Allen Fyffe and Bob Barton in 1982. The West Pillar, on the left of the picture, was first climbed in 1984 by Spaniards Juan Aldeguer, Segio Martinez, Jose Moreno and Juan Tomas. The shadowed West Face between the two pillars was first climbed in 1989 by Slovenians Silvo Karo and Jamez Jeglic - probably the hardest climb achieved in the Indian Himalaya up to that time. More about Bhagirathi III More Photos of the Indian Himalaya Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. See Bhagirathi III for the Licence details.