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A lot of web pages stating Gangkhar Puensum as the world's highest unclimber peak give its height as 7541 m (24750 ft).
For example: [1]
Fewer seem to give 6896 m (22624 ft).
Does anyone know the correct height? Thincat 15:46, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Who has a source for the translation of this? The only thing I found online was that it means " 3 mountain siblings".-- Josh Rocchio 22:16, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I see no reason to doubt that the translation given by the above link is correct, and thank you for this link which has an excellent image of the mountain. Viewfinder 12:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
3 mountain siblings is a shorter version of the above. Whether the words "white" and "spiritual" are correctly included in the translation, I do not know. Viewfinder 14:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
If this bothers you, add a footnote to the main article, stating that no citation that goes further than "3 mountain siblings" can be found. Viewfinder 18:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
These next two copied from my talk page...-- Josh Rocchio 18:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
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Ok, well that says it's derived from a phrase that means white peak of the three spiritual brothers...and 3 mountain siblings certainly counds derived from that. Can we agree to emend? I will send out a note to the other wikipedias, I can speak about half of the languages whose wikipedias translated this well enough to write a quick note, and for the others, english will have to do =].-- Josh Rocchio 18:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
I've arranged it in the Catalan version. (Els tres germans de la muntanya) -- 83.44.189.186 11:19, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Can somebody clarify this? The Mountain's summit is actually in Tibet, isn't it? As such it doesn't really make sense for the map to show its location "within Bhutan" when it isn't in Bhutan, at least the red tiangle representing the summit isn't. It doesn't make sense either that there's no mention of Tibet in the intro. -- Lo2u ( T • C) 23:45, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
I reverted the change to Tibet, since no source I've seen supports that. Instead, I cited a detailed discussion of GP (and Kula Kangri) which lays out the different claims. I did put into the intro a sentence mentioning that it is on the border with Tibet. -- Spireguy ( talk) 22:54, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
One other point, comparing these two maps, it seems there are about 200 square miles along the northern border that the first map places in Bhutan and the second places in Tibet. This may be because the borders are not properly defined but it is telling that there are several maps in the Bhutan article and none of them is the same shape as the green map here, which makes me think the borders of the green map are less widely recognised. The green map shows Gangkhar Puensum in China but all the others would show it in Tibet. I'm tempted to revise this map along the lines of [ this image]. -- Lo2u ( T • C) 02:44, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I shall revert the last edit to the article which put a different map in the infobox which then shows GP entirely within China (see last section of this discussion above). Interestingly, Bing shows the GP coordinate given in the article as being within Bhutan [4]. I think the underlying issue is that the border between the countries is not defined clearly (but maybe it is convenient to say GP is on or near the border). Thincat ( talk) 09:12, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
The location map in the current article [5] seems to be working appropriately. File:Bhutan_location_map.svg of 08:22 14 October 2008 (from Germen WP) is the file in use. Thincat ( talk) 18:58, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
This map below recently became available. It shows the disputed borders in the north and west that account for the descrepancies in the above maps. Just thought I'd share it here although unsure if should be included in this article. More info in Talk:Bhutan page.
-- Racerx11 ( talk) 04:04, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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A lot of web pages stating Gangkhar Puensum as the world's highest unclimber peak give its height as 7541 m (24750 ft).
For example: [1]
Fewer seem to give 6896 m (22624 ft).
Does anyone know the correct height? Thincat 15:46, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Who has a source for the translation of this? The only thing I found online was that it means " 3 mountain siblings".-- Josh Rocchio 22:16, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I see no reason to doubt that the translation given by the above link is correct, and thank you for this link which has an excellent image of the mountain. Viewfinder 12:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
3 mountain siblings is a shorter version of the above. Whether the words "white" and "spiritual" are correctly included in the translation, I do not know. Viewfinder 14:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
If this bothers you, add a footnote to the main article, stating that no citation that goes further than "3 mountain siblings" can be found. Viewfinder 18:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
These next two copied from my talk page...-- Josh Rocchio 18:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
.
Ok, well that says it's derived from a phrase that means white peak of the three spiritual brothers...and 3 mountain siblings certainly counds derived from that. Can we agree to emend? I will send out a note to the other wikipedias, I can speak about half of the languages whose wikipedias translated this well enough to write a quick note, and for the others, english will have to do =].-- Josh Rocchio 18:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
I've arranged it in the Catalan version. (Els tres germans de la muntanya) -- 83.44.189.186 11:19, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Can somebody clarify this? The Mountain's summit is actually in Tibet, isn't it? As such it doesn't really make sense for the map to show its location "within Bhutan" when it isn't in Bhutan, at least the red tiangle representing the summit isn't. It doesn't make sense either that there's no mention of Tibet in the intro. -- Lo2u ( T • C) 23:45, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
I reverted the change to Tibet, since no source I've seen supports that. Instead, I cited a detailed discussion of GP (and Kula Kangri) which lays out the different claims. I did put into the intro a sentence mentioning that it is on the border with Tibet. -- Spireguy ( talk) 22:54, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
One other point, comparing these two maps, it seems there are about 200 square miles along the northern border that the first map places in Bhutan and the second places in Tibet. This may be because the borders are not properly defined but it is telling that there are several maps in the Bhutan article and none of them is the same shape as the green map here, which makes me think the borders of the green map are less widely recognised. The green map shows Gangkhar Puensum in China but all the others would show it in Tibet. I'm tempted to revise this map along the lines of [ this image]. -- Lo2u ( T • C) 02:44, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I shall revert the last edit to the article which put a different map in the infobox which then shows GP entirely within China (see last section of this discussion above). Interestingly, Bing shows the GP coordinate given in the article as being within Bhutan [4]. I think the underlying issue is that the border between the countries is not defined clearly (but maybe it is convenient to say GP is on or near the border). Thincat ( talk) 09:12, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
The location map in the current article [5] seems to be working appropriately. File:Bhutan_location_map.svg of 08:22 14 October 2008 (from Germen WP) is the file in use. Thincat ( talk) 18:58, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
This map below recently became available. It shows the disputed borders in the north and west that account for the descrepancies in the above maps. Just thought I'd share it here although unsure if should be included in this article. More info in Talk:Bhutan page.
-- Racerx11 ( talk) 04:04, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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