Hkakabo Razi

[ kah-kuh-boh rah-zee ]

noun

1. the highest peak in Myanmar (Burma), in Kachin state, in the North. 19,294 feet (5,881 meters).

Example Sentences

She described a 2014 expedition that she led in an attempt at the first summit of Hkakabo Razi in Myanmar, where her team nearly ran out of food.

From Scientific American

But an aborted attempt on Papsura in 2013 and a disastrous expedition to remote Hkakabo Razi in Myanmar, during which the team nearly ran out of food, led Nelson to take a break from ski mountaineering in the mid-2010s before roaring back to the pinnacle of her career.

From Seattle Times

In 2014, Ms. Nelson received a National Geographic Explorers grant to lead an ultimately unsuccessful expedition to Hkakabo Razi, the highest peak in Myanmar.

From New York Times

Mountaineering experts said that feat had redeemed Ms. Nelson in the eyes of the alpinist community after she led a failed North Face expedition in 2014 to climb Hkakabo Razi, Myanmar’s tallest mountain at 19,295 feet.

From New York Times

Her many successes include earning a National Geographic Explorers grant in 2014 to lead an expedition to a “little known” peak in the northern region of Myanmar, Hkakabo Razi, that was captured in an award-winning documentary, “Down to Nothing.”

From Seattle Times