Nuptse

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Nuptse
Nuptse from Lobuche
Elevation	7,861 metres (25,790 feet)
Location	Khumbu, Nepal
Range	Himalaya
Coordinates	27°57′59″N, 86°53′24″E
First ascent	1961 by a British team
Easiest route	snow/ice climb

Nuptse is a mountain in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal, in the Nepalese Himalaya. It lies two kilometres WSW of Mount Everest. Nuptse is Tibetan for "west peak", as it is the western segment of the Lhotse-Nuptse massif.

The long east-west trending main ridge of Nuptse is crowned by seven peaks:

Peak	metres	feet	Latitude (N)	Longitude (E)
Nuptse I	7,861	25,790	27°57′59″	86°53′24″
Nuptse II	7,827	25,679	27°57′52″	86°53′34″
Nuptse Shar I	7,804	25,604	27°57′41″	86°53′47″
Nuptse Nup I	7,784	25,538	27°58′05″	86°53′08″
Nuptse Shar II	7,776	25,512	27°57′39″	86°53′55″
Nuptse Nup II	7,742	25,400	27°58′06″	86°52′54″
Nuptse Shar III	7,695	25,246	27°57′30″	86°54′42″

The main peak, Nuptse I, was first climbed on May 16, 1961 by Dennis Davis and Sherpa Tashi, members of a British expedition. After a long hiatus, Nuptse again became the objective of high-standard mountaineers in the 1990s and 2000s, with important routes being put up on its west, south, and north faces.

While Nuptse is a dramatic peak when viewed from the south or west, and it towers above the base camp for the standard south col route on Everest, it is not a particularly independent peak: its topographic prominence is only 319 m (1,047 ft). Hence it is not ranked on the list of highest mountains.