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{{Infobox mountain<br />
| name = Apsarasas Kangri<br />
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| elevation_m = 7245<br />
| elevation_ref = <ref name="peakbagger">{{cite peakbagger|pid=18666|title=Apsarasas, India/China|accessdate=2015-02-17}}</ref><br><small>[[List of highest mountains|Ranked 96th]]</small><br />
| prominence_m = 625<br />
| prominence_ref = <ref name="peakbagger"/><ref>Note: Sources vary on the prominence of this peak. [http://www.8000ers.com/cms/en/download.html?func=startdown&id=168 8000ers.com] states 607m and [http://global.mongabay.com/geography/Apsarasas_Kangri.html Global.mongabay] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702193311/http://global.mongabay.com/geography/Apsarasas_Kangri.html |date=July 2, 2013 }} states 635m. Both agree with the Peakbagger summit elevation of 7245m, but 8000ers.com purports that the unclimbed eastern peak is the highest summit.</ref><br />
| parent_peak = [[Teram Kangri]]<br />
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| range = [[Siachen Muztagh]], [[Karakoram]]<br />
| location = [[Ladakh]], India,<br /> [[Xinjiang]], China<br />
| map = Karakoram relief#China Xinjiang#India Ladakh<br />
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| coordinates = {{coord|35|32|18|N|77|08|54|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<br />
| coordinates_ref = <ref name="peakbagger"/><br />
| first_ascent = 1976<br />
| easiest_route = snow/ice climb<br />
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'''Apsarasas Kangri''' is a mountain in the [[Siachen Muztagh|Siachen subrange]] of the [[Karakoram]] mountain range. With an elevation of {{convert|7245|m|ft|abbr=on}} it is the [[List of highest mountains|96th highest mountain in the world]]. Apsarasas Kangri is located within the broader [[Kashmir|Kashmir region]] disputed between India, Pakistan and China. It is situated on the border between the areas controlled by China as part of the [[Xinjiang]] autonomous region, and the [[Siachen Glacier]] controlled by India as part of [[Ladakh]].<br />
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Apsarasas was named by Grant Peterkin of the [[Fanny Bullock Workman#Hispar and Siachen Glaciers|1908 Workman expedition]], from ''[[apsara]]'' ("fairies") and ''sas'' ("place"), thus "place of the fairies".<ref>{{cite book|last=Kapadia|first=Harish|authorlink=Harish Kapadia|title=High Himalaya Unknown Valleys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KNhJXSjSk70C&pg=PA14|date=1 March 2002|publisher=Indus Publishing|isbn=978-81-7387-117-7|page=314}}</ref> There are at least three main summits of near-equal height, usually labeled I to III from west to east over a distance of 5 km. The eastern summit ({{coord|35|31|14|N|77|11|56|E}}) is separated from the other two by a saddle just over 6800 m high.<br />
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Only the western peak (Apsaras I) appears to have been climbed. The first ascent was made over the west ridge by Yoshio Inagaki, Katsuhisa Yabuta and Takamasa Miyomoto of the Osaka University Mountaineering Club on August 7, 1976.<ref>Hideo Misawa, [http://c498469.r69.cf2.rackcdn.com/1977/asia1977_236-284.pdf Apsaras], American Alpine Journal 21, 1977 p. 271</ref> The second ascent was by an Indian Army expedition on September 18, 1980,<ref>Brig K. N. Thadani, [https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/38/19/the-ascent-of-apsarasas-i-in-the-karakoram/ The Ascent of Apsarasas I in the Karakoram], Himalayan Journal 38, 1982.</ref> and another Indian army team achieved the third ascent in 1988.<ref>Kapadia, 2002, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KNhJXSjSk70C&pg=PA302 p. 302].</ref> Apsaras II and Apsaras III are listed as "[[virgin peaks]]" by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation,<ref name="IMF">{{cite web|title=Virgin Peaks in East Karakoram|url=http://www.indianmountaineeringfoundation.com/virginpeakseastkarakoram.html|publisher=The Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF)|accessdate=17 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034350/http://www.indianmountaineeringfoundation.com/virginpeakseastkarakoram.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the eastern summit counts amongst the [[highest unclimbed mountain#List of highest unclimbed peaks|highest unclimbed peaks]].<br />
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[[Category:Mountains of Xinjiang]]<br />
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