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Gokyo Ri

5,357 m17,575 ft

Easiest route: 1.6 km+595 m · about 1.5 h · T1
Prominence: 64 m208 ft
Isolation: 0.5 km
Tonight: -17°CLight snow showers · Wind 13 km/h SW

Gokyo Ri is a 5,357 m (17,575 ft) mountain in the Himalayas, Nepal.

All facts

Elevation: 5,357 m · 17,575 ft
Nearest higher peak: Pharilapcha (6,017 m)
Range: Himalayas
Region: Nepal
Coordinates: 27.9607° N, 86.6832° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Gokyo Ri

The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

From Gokyo (hamlet)

Distance: 1.6 kmone way
Climb: +595 m−17 m (1,952 ft up)
Time up: about 1.5 h
Difficulty: T1Easy trail, trainers are fine

Gokyo Ri elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Gokyo Ri 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Gokyo Ri terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Gokyo. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Gokyo Ri weather

Today · Light snow showers at night · -17 / -4°C (1 / 25°F) · 0.8 mm · Wind 13 km/h SW

Gokyo Ri forecast for the summit, about 5,357 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,760 m.

Today-17°-4°0.8 mm13 km/h SWBase -14 / -1°
Sun-15°-5°0.6 mm14 km/h SWBase -11 / -1°
Mon-15°-4°1.2 mm11 km/h SWBase -12 / 0°
Tue-15°-5°–5 km/h NBase -11 / -1°
Wed-16°-4°0.3 mm10 km/h NBase -13 / -1°
Thu-9°-4°33.3 mm7 km/h NBase -6 / -1°
Fri-6°-4°117.1 mm7 km/h SEBase -2 / -1°
Sat-9°-3°13.2 mm7 km/h EBase -6 / 0°
Sun-12°-4°–9 km/h NBase -9 / -1°
Mon-13°-5°0.2 mm8 km/h NBase -10 / -1°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Gokyo Ri

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Gokyo Ri, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest campsite
1.0 km NE
+2 more within 7.8 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Campsite	1.0 km NE
Campsite	4.4 km ESE
Campsite	7.8 km N

Slope

How steep is the route to Gokyo Ri?

The easiest mapped route, 1.6 km from 4,760 m to 5,357 m. Steepest stretch: 45°.

0 km · 4,760 m1.6 km · 5,357 m

0–15°0.5 km
15–30°0.9 km
30–45°0.2 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 43.4%Snow & ice 21.1%Moss & lichen 18.7%Grassland 12.8%Water 4.1%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 65 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Prickly Blue Poppy20
Alpine Accentor19
Tibetan Snowcock16
Yellow-billed Chough16
Robin Accentor15
Ruddy Shelduck12

Where it sits

Where Gokyo Ri sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Lunag RiPeak · 6,895 m17 km NW

Gokyo Ri downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGGokyo Ri satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-12-17.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXGokyo Ri GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

19 m low This 3D map reads 5,338 m at the summit; the official height is 5,357 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	5,357 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	5,338 m	-19 m
Copernicus GLO-90	5,328 m	-29 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-12-17)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · Wikipedia

Gokyo Ri

From Gokyo (hamlet)

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Data sources