Nakamura Travels 4800km to Document More Unclimbed Peaks
Japanese explorer Tamotsu Nakamura recently returned from another trip to the Nyainqentanglha East and Kangri Garpo West regions of Tibet, where he has been documenting unclimbed peaks and glaciers for nearly two decades.Nakamura spent five weeks in October and November traveling 4800 kilometers south and west of Qamdo, the launching point for his expedition. The massive clockwise loop allowed him to access and photograph four untouched valleys: Dangchu in Kangri Garpo West, then three more to the northwest—Botoi Tsangpo, Niwu Qu and Jingling—in Nyainqentanglha East. Foreigners had not reconnoitered two of these valleys for nearly a century, Nakamura believes, and another valley was completely virgin to foreign eyes…
Taken from: Alpinist Magazine.
