Separating the upper watersheds of the t3 Sunkosi and Tamakosi riven north-east of Kalhmandu is a long saw-tooth ridge of black rock known as the Pamari Himal or Lapchi Kang range. It runs northwards from Ama Bamare, 5325 m, along the border between Tibet and Nepal´s Dolakha district to a 6070m high unnamed peak 20 kilometers further north.
Separating the upper watersheds of the t3 Sunkosi and Tamakosi riven north-east of Kalhmandu is a long saw-tooth ridge of black rock known as the Pamari Himal or Lapchi Kang range. It runs northwards from Ama Bamare, 5325 m, along the border between Tibet and Nepal´s Dolakha district to a 6070m high unnamed peak 20 kilometers further north.
Dwarfed by the Jug aland Lang tan granges to the west and the lofty peaks of the Rolwaling and Khumbu to the east, this lesser Himalayan range has largely been ignored. What little recognition it has received has almost exclusively been due to the presence of one peak that juts prominently upward like a dark fang. The peak, nicknamed ´the Needle,´ stands 3.5 kilometers north of AmaBamare. It has three sheersnowless sides (the west, south and northeast faces) that rise from below the jagged ridge crest.
What is this mountain´s real name? How tall is it? An attempt to answer these two simple questions invited a lot of confusion. Only the mountain´s appearance, and its location between Tain akosi/B hotekosi ´s tributary Chyadu Khola, and the Tibetan town of Dram/Khasa was certain. Tourist brochures and panoramas – including Himal´s own panorama- and all maps published in India starting with the 1934 "l-inch-to-8-miles" map, label a mountain called Chhoba Bamare, with varying heights of 5946m, 5960m, or 5970m.