The Nun Kun mountain massif comprises a pair of Himalayan peaks Nun (7,135 m), the highest mountain on the Indian side of Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, and Kun (7,035 m) are located in the Suru valley. Kun, the lower of the two peaks is separated by a snowy plateau of about 2 miles is north of Nun. Pinnacle Peak (6,930 m), the third highest summit on the Nun Kun massif, was first claimed to be climbed by Fannie Bullock Workman in 1906. Most conveniently accessed from the Kargil to Leh road, located about 60 miles east of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir.

Mountaineering

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During the 1906 expedition of the area by Fannie Bullock Workman and her husband claims were made to have found the high snow plateau crowning the massif previously discovered by a Dutch mountaineer Dr. Sillem in 1903. Controversy surrounded the Workman's claims and few trigonometrical points were given for the region. An Italian mountaineer Mario Piacenza first climbed Kun in 1913, while Nun was first conquered in 1953 by Madame Claude Kogant, a Swiss climber.

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• Photo from jktourism.org
• Suru and Zanskar valley
• Topography of Nun Kun ex Geographical Journal 1920

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