Nature · Tibet · summit-area section · bounded southern view
Mount Kailash: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Kailash uses an approximately 6,449-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,705 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 6,449 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Tibet · summit-area section · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 21,156.8 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 6448.6 m at 31.066389°, 81.310833°.
- Local base
- 4744.0 m at 31.035833°, 81.270556°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 81.255139°, east 81.370417°; south 31.035694°, north 31.098750°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 26.5 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The Government of Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district reference lists Mount Kailash at 6,638 meters. This Copernicus section reaches only about 6,449 meters in EGM2008, a substantial numerical difference that reflects the limits of this coarse modeled surface and its separate reference system. The sharply bounded summit cannot be read as a precise rock survey from the neutral shaded grid.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 4744.0 meters at 31.035833° latitude, 81.270556° longitude. This produces about 1,705 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Mount Kailash uses an approximately 6,449-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,705 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Pithoragarh district, Government of Uttarakhand: Mount Kailash
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
The approximately 6,449-meter surface estimate is not a revision of the cited 6,638-meter mountain reference. Fine summit geometry is unresolved in this dataset.
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