The five highest peaks in the world that have never been climbed by anyone

Climbing is a practice that spread many years ago and has managed to conquer peaks that seemed unattainable.

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The summit of Mount Everest is located in Nepal and reaches 8,848.86 meters. It is the highest mountain on Earth and was first reached in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary. Paradoxically, there are lower and more accessible summits that have never been reached by anyone, at least not officially, and not for lack of mountaineers willing to reach those places. What prevents us from reaching them?

The highest mountain whose summit has never been climbed is Gangkhar Puensum, which reaches 7,570 meters. It is located on the border between Bhutan and communist China. Bhutan allowed climbing of this mountain between 1983 and 1994, but no one reached the summit. Today, climbing it is prohibited for religious reasons: the local Buddhist population believes the mountain is inhabited by spirits and does not wish to disturb them. In 1994, Bhutan banned climbing peaks over 6,000 meters, a ban that was extended to mountaineering in general in 2003.

A similar situation exists at Mount Kailash, located in Tibet, a country militarily occupied by communist China since 1950. Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Yungdrung Bon consider this mountain sacred. Despite the fact that the Beijing authorities do not get along well with religious denominations, the Beijing regime has banned climbing to its summit, denying all applications from mountaineers to reach it. You can find more examples of high mountains never climbed in this video published by Fatally Curious, which reviews a total of five peaks:

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Main photo: Jean-Marie Hullot. Mount Kailash in Tibet, seen from the southwest in a photo taken on September 23, 2016.