Molamenqing, Mountain summit in Tibet, China.
Molamenqing stands at 7,661 meters elevation as an eastern outlier of Shishapangma within the Jugal Himal range of the greater Himalayas.
The summit received its first and only recorded ascent in May 1981 by a New Zealand expedition team during an era of limited Western access to Tibetan peaks.
The name Phola Gangchen is Tibetan, and the peak appears on Chinese maps as 摩拉门青. It is an eastern outlier of Shishapangma, the lowest of the fourteen eight-thousanders, in the Jugal Himal a few kilometres from the Nepalese border. The mountain is little known because its prominence above the connecting saddle is only 430 metres.
The only recorded route began on the east side, then crossed the north flank of Shishapangma to reach the summit from the west. A 2013 Slovenian team was stopped by a broken glacier on the south face and by snow and wind above 6,800 m on the east face. The Himalayan Index lists no other attempts.
Despite its impressive height of 7,661 meters, the mountain remains relatively obscure due to its low topographic prominence of only 430 meters above the connecting saddle.
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