Api and Nampa




The remarkable group of peaks in western Nepal, of which Api and Nampa are the principals, has been imperfectly studied. During the observations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey the cluster was continually obscured by haze, and only one peak was observed. A crowded cluster that is seldom visible in winter, except perhaps on certain days for a few minutes at sunrise, and that is completely hidden by clouds in summer, presents great difficulties to the observer.

Apinampa 
Conservation Area
Mount Api (7132m) and Nampa (6757m) 


If he succeeds in observing the directions of six peaks from both an eastern and a western station, each of the six rays from his eastern station cuts each of the six from "his western, and thirty-six points of intersection are given within a small area. If the peaks have been observed from a third station also, difficulties disappear, but when they have been seen from two only, the true points of intersection have to be determined from a study of the several values of height.

Many map-makers have confused the peaks of Api and Nampa, but their heights differ by 1237 feet. Colonel Tanner's observations show that Api is a double peak, the higher point of which (23399 feet) stands haif a mile north-east of the lower (23287 feet).The observations of Colonel Tanner's assistant Rinzin show another peak called Ningru (23143 feet) rising between the two peaks of Api. It is extremely unlikely that the name of Ningru has been attached by natives to this close companion of Api. and it is more reasonable to assume that Api and Ningru are alternative names employed, perhaps in different localities, for the same snowy mass. According to the observations of Tanner's assistants Nampa is a double peak also, the two summits being 2 miles apart. The higher Nampa is 4 miles east of the higher Api.

The only peak of this cluster observed by the Great Trigonometrical Survey was peak LIII: its position was fixed, but not its height; its position, which was determined from two stations of observation only, is 10 miles south-south-west of Api (23399 feet). The Encyclopedia Britannica shows a peak of this cluster as Mount Humla (24702 feet), but, incomplete as the trigonometrical observations of the Api-Nampa group have been, they are sufficient to indicate that no peak exceeding 24000 feet stands in this region.
"The purity of its unbroken snow and boldness of its outline," wrote Colonel Tanner of the Api peak (23399 feet), 

I have nowhere seen equalled. The ridges that connect the highest with the lower points of Api are perfectly sharp and decided, and for several thousands of feet there is scarcely a splinter of naked rock to mar the unrivalled whiteness of its slopes. The base and lower spurs of Api touch the Kali valley and are clothed with variegated masses of birch and pine except in those places where constantly recurring avalanches admit only of the growth of short grass.

Apinampa Conservation Area was established in the year of 2010 to conserve the natural beauty and ecosystem of the far west Nepal. It is youngest conservation area in Nepal, including 21 vdcs of Darchula district. The conservation area is named behind the Mount Api (7132m) and Nampa (6757m) which lie within the area. The conservation area covers an area of 1903 sq.km and includes different vegetation types. The central core area is plateau of grasslands intermixed with oak, coniferous forest, riverine deciduous temperate forest. Diverse climatic condition and altitudinal variation of the area have provided habitats for many rare endangered and threratened wildlife species including the snow leopard, musk deer and clouded leopard. Birds include the national bird of Nepal, danphe or Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus), as well as Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra).

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