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Kalanag
Kalanag
Black Peak
	Kalanag
Highest point
Elevation	6,387 m (20,955 ft)
Listing	List of mountains in India
Coordinates	31°01′12″N 78°34′12″E / 31.02000°N 78.57000°E
Geography
	Kalanag Location in northern India
Location	Uttarakhand, India
Parent range	Garhwal Himalaya
Climbing
First ascent	1955; Jack Gibson and students of The Doon School

Kalanag or Black Peak (6,387 m) is a peak in the Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand, India. It is the highest peak in the Bandarpunch massif, others being Bandarpunch I (6,316 m) and White Peak or Bandarpunch II (6,102 m). The name literally means "Black Cobra" in Hindi.

The peak was first summited in 1955 by schoolmaster Jack Gibson and students of The Doon School, Dehradun.^[1]

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^ Kapadia, Harish (1999). Across Peaks and Passes in Garhwal Himalaya. London: Indus Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 9788173870972. The area first came into prominence when the Doon School masters—R.L. Holdsworth, J.T.M. Gibson, J.A.K. Martyn and Gurdial Singh—used this area to offer climbing experience to their wards during summer holidays. In fact the first ascent of Bandarpunch was by Jack Gibson...Gibson and his boys also made the first ascent of Kalanag in 1955.

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[Harish_Kapadia-1] Kapadia, Harish (1999). Across Peaks and Passes in Garhwal Himalaya. London: Indus Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 9788173870972. The area first came into prominence when the Doon School masters—R.L. Holdsworth, J.T.M. Gibson, J.A.K. Martyn and Gurdial Singh—used this area to offer climbing experience to their wards during summer holidays. In fact the first ascent of Bandarpunch was by Jack Gibson...Gibson and his boys also made the first ascent of Kalanag in 1955.

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