Ladyfinger Peak
| Lady Finger Peak لیڈی فنگر | |
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| Bublimotin | |
| File:Lady Finger and Ultar Peak.JPG Ladyfinger peak is the sharp peak in the centre-left | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 6,000 m (20,000 ft)[1][a] |
| Prominence | < 200 m[citation needed] |
| Listing | Mountains of Pakistan |
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| Geography | |
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| Country | Pakistan |
| Region | Gilgit-Baltistan |
| District | Gilgit |
| Parent range | Batura Muztagh, Karakoram |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | May 22, 1982 by Patrick Cordier and Jacques Maurin[1] |
| Easiest route | East Ridge[1] |
The Bublimotin, Bubli Motin, Bublimating or Ladyfinger Peak (Urdu: لیڈی فنگر), is a distinctive rock spire in the Batura Muztagh, the westernmost subrange of the Karakoram range in Pakistan. It lies on the southwest ridge of the Ultar Sar massif, the most southeasterly of the major groups of the Batura Muztagh. The whole massif rises precipitously above the Hunza Valley to the southeast.
Bublimotin is a sharp, relatively snowless, rock spire among the nearby peaks, although it has little prominence above the saddle with nearby Hunza Peak. It provides a 6,000-metre (20,000 ft) rock climb (with a very serious alpine approach) and has been the scene of some notable paragliding.[citation needed]
An interesting folk tale about the peak (Bubli mo Ting, literally meaning 'Bubli's peak') is that Kisar, a (magical) prince from Baltistan, came to Hunza on one of his adventures and married a princess, a gas, called Bubli. When he received news that his first wife in Baltistan, Langabrumo, had been kidnapped (by a phut or a deu, one story says, but according to Lorimer's book it is a king from another country), he immediately made preparations to set off and rescue her. He took Bubli up to this mountain, (later named after her), and handed her a sack of grain as well as a hen or chicken (a qarqamuts). She must have asked whether – and when – he would be back and he told her: "Every year give this chicken a single grain to eat. When the sack is empty, I will return. Until that time, stay here." He left, and, they say, Bubli is waiting there still.[citation needed]
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Close-up of Ladyfinger Peak
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Ladyfinger and Hunza Peak
See also
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Note and references
[edit | edit source]- ^ This elevation is approximate.
Sources
[edit | edit source]- Jerzy Wala, Orographical Sketch Map of the Batura Muztagh, 1988.
- Himalayan Index
- Climbs and Expeditions:Pakistan, The American Alpine Journal (1997), pp. 306 – 331
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