Hanuman Tibba

Hanuman Tibba is the highest mountain peak of the Dhauladhar Range in Himachal Pradesh, with an altitude of 5,982 metres (19,626 ft) above sea level. It is a well known local peak, partly due to it resembling a steep pyramid, with its noted feature of steep vertical rise from its base camp site. Its west face has been a recent site to many attempts to climb through the “Shipton spur”, a steep, technical, sustained rocky feature often exposed to winds and gnarly ice flutings. The Diretissima through this face is still unclimbed. In a noted recent attempt by the Alpine Club of the Greater Himalayas, 4 alpinists tried climbing through this very spur, but were defeated by rotten ice conditions, high at 5,720 m (18,770 ft).

Some controversy initially surrounded Werner Merkel Roth and fellow members (Mr.A.Azer Mr. Mir. H) reports of climbing an approximately 58-metre rock shelf (AD VI+) at nearly 5,500 m (18,000 ft), a claim which was later to be accepted when an Austrian climbing party reported and verified the same.