If that name is too much of a mouthful, it translates to “Fish Tail” due to its double summit resembling the tail of a fish.
No one’s ever made it to the top of this mountain. In 1957, a British team led by Jimmy Roberts made it the closest.
They got within 50 meters of the summit, approximately 22,793 feet high before turning back. They had promised not to travel to the very top of the mountain, and since then it has been considered sacred and closed to climbers.
Mount Machhapuchchhre is revered by the local population as particularly sacred to the god Shiva, one of the most important gods in the Hindu religion. Shiva is thought to make Mount Kailash in Tibet his abode, however.
