Editing Nanda Devi (section)

{{short description|Second-highest mountain in India}}
{{about|the main western summit|its twin summit to the east|Nanda Devi East}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Nanda Devi
| native_name = 
| photo = Mt. Nanda Devi.jpg
| elevation_m = 7817
| elevation_ref = <ref name="peaklist">{{cite web|url=http://peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/karakoram.html|title=High Asia I: The Karakoram, Pakistan Himalaya and India Himalaya (north of Nepal)|publisher  = Peaklist.org|access-date=2014-05-28}}</ref><br /><small>[[list of highest mountains|Ranked 23rd]]</small>
| prominence_m = 3139
| prominence_ref = <ref name="peaklist"/><br />{{small|[[list of peaks by prominence|Ranked 74th]]}}
| map_caption = Location in India
| map_size = 260
| map_image = {{OSM Himalaya|lat_d=30.4|long_d=80.0|zoom=7}}
| label_position = right
| listing = [[Ultra prominent peak|Ultra]] <br/> [[List of Indian states and territories by highest point]]
| location = [[Chamoli]], [[Uttarakhand]], India
| range = [[Garhwal Himalaya]]
| coordinates = {{coord|30|22|33|N|79|58|15|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref = <ref name="peaklist"/><ref name="him_index_latlong">The [http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/hi/ Himalayan Index] gives the coordinates of Nanda Devi as {{coord|30|22|12|N|79|58|12|E|type:mountain}}.</ref>
| topo = 
| type = 
| age = 
| first_ascent = 29 August 1936 by [[Noel Odell]] and [[Bill Tilman]]<ref name="world_mountaineering">[[Harish Kapadia]], "Nanda Devi", in ''World Mountaineering'', Audrey Salkeld, editor, Bulfinch Press, 1998, {{ISBN|0-8212-2502-2}}, pp. 254–257.</ref><ref name="him_alpine_style">Andy Fanshawe and Stephen Venables, ''Himalaya Alpine-Style'', Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, {{ISBN|0-340-64931-3}}.</ref>
| easiest_route = south ridge: technical rock/snow/ice climb
}}

'''Nanda Devi''' is the second-highest mountain in India, after [[Kangchenjunga]], and the highest located entirely within the country. (Kangchenjunga is on the border of India and [[Nepal]].<ref name=britannica-kangchenjunga>{{citation|chapter=Kanchenjunga|title=Encyclopedia Britannica|date= 17 April 2023|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Kanchenjunga|access-date= 13 May 2023|quote=Kanchenjunga, also spelled Kangchenjunga or Kinchinjunga, Nepali Kumbhkaran Lungur, world’s third highest mountain, with an elevation of 28,169 feet (8,586 metres). It is situated in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Sikkim state, northeastern India, and eastern Nepal, 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Darjiling}}</ref>) Nanda Devi is the [[List of highest mountains|23rd-highest]] peak in the world and ranked 74th by [[List of peaks by prominence|prominence]] 
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Nanda Devi was considered [[List of past presumed highest mountains|the highest mountain in the world]] before computations in 1808 proved [[Dhaulagiri]] to be higher. It was also the highest mountain in India until 1975, when [[Sikkim]], an [[Kingdom of Sikkim|independent kingdom]] until 1948 and a protectorate of India thereafter, became a [[States and union territories of India|state of India]]. It is located in the [[Chamoli district|Chamoli]] district of [[Uttarakhand]], between the [[Rishiganga]] valley on the west and the [[Gori Ganga|Goriganga]] valley on the east.

The peak, whose name means "Bliss-Giving Goddess",<ref name="him_alpine_style"/> is regarded as the patron goddess of the [[Garhwal Himalaya|Garhwal]] and [[Kumaon Division|Kumaon]] Himalayas. In acknowledgment of its religious significance and for the protection of its fragile ecosystem, the Government of India declared the peak as well as the circle of high mountains surrounding it—the Nanda Devi sanctuary—off-limits to both locals and climbers in 1983. The surrounding [[Nanda Devi National Park]] was declared a [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]] in 1988.