Nature · Main and central summit-area terrain · bounded southern view
Shishapangma: terrain elevation and local relief
Shishapangma uses an approximately 7,920-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,853 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 7,920 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Main and central summit-area terrain · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 25,985.1 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
- 7920.3 m at 28.355556°, 85.777778°.
- Local base
- 5067.7 m at 28.335000°, 85.829444°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 85.723472°, east 85.835694°; south 28.320972°, north 28.384028°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 27.2 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Jean-Christophe Lafaille’s 2005 American Alpine Journal account identifies Shishapangma’s main summit with the 8,027-meter reference. The neighboring central summit is distinct. This bounded surface section includes the summit ridge but reaches only about 7,920 meters in EGM2008. Its coarse samples do not reliably distinguish the fine summit crests, so the section maximum is not asserted to be an exact sample of the published main summit.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 5067.7 meters at 28.335000° latitude, 85.829444° longitude. This produces about 2,853 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
Shishapangma uses an approximately 7,920-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,853 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Jean-Christophe Lafaille, American Alpine Journal 2005: Shishapangma main summit
- 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 8,027-meter main-summit reference remains independent of the roughly 7,920-meter modeled section. This view cannot establish whether a climber reached the main or central summit.
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