Sepu Kangri

Sepu Kangri
Highest point
Elevation6,956 m (22,822 ft)
Coordinates30°54′15″N 93°47′09″E / 30.904103°N 93.785923°E / 30.904103; 93.785923
Geography
Sepu Kangri
Location within Tibet, China
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNagqu
CountyBiru County
Parent rangeNyenchen Tanglha Mountains
Climbing
First ascentOctober 2nd, 2002 by Carlos Buhler and Mark Newcomb
Sepu Kangri
Traditional Chinese色浦崗日
Simplified Chinese色浦岗日
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSèpǔ gǎngrì
Sapu Mountain
Traditional Chinese萨普神山
Simplified Chinese萨普神山
Literal meaningSapu holy mountain / Sapu sacred mountain
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSàpǔ shénshān

The Sepu Kangri (Tibetan: བསངས་ཕུ་གངས་རི, Wylie: bsangs phu gangs ri, THL: sang pu gang ri; also Sapu Mountain from Chinese) is a mountain in Biru County, Nagqu prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. The mountain is 285 kilometres (177 mi) east-northeast of Lhasa and 178 kilometres (111 mi) east-southeast of Nagqu Town. With a height of 6,956 metres (22,822 ft), it forms the highest point in the eastern part of the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains. The full name of the mountain is Sepu Kunglha Karpo, meaning "white snow god".

The mountain is sacred in Tibetan Bon tradition. The mountain is referred to as (Tibetan: ལྷོ་ཡི་འཛམ་བུ་ཀླུ་རི, Wylie: lho yi 'dzam bu klu ri) in that context. There is a Bon monastery that is more than half millennium old in the valley below.