Freezing One-Day Summit of Phonka Kangri (6,150m)

At 6,150 metres, Phonka Kangri is one of the highest mountains in India that can be climbed without any technical mountaineering skills. In Episode 2 of Peakbagging Ladakh Season 2, I climb Phonka Kangri as a 14-hour one-day push. Learn to hike independently — the Hiking Field Course is a 7-day hands-on course in the Himalayas. 👉 https://manav.in/hfc ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Peak: Phonka Kangri Elevation: 6,150 m (20,177 ft) Region: Ladakh, India Difficulty: Non-Technical Trekking Peak Season: July – September ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 Peak Intro 00:47 Kongta La (Roadhead) to Har Lungpa Stream Crossing 03:51 Har Lungpa to Phonka Kangri Summit 10:31 Phonka Kangri Summit 13:21 Phonka Kangri Summit to Har Lungpa Stream Crossing 15:11 Har Lungpa Stream Crossing 16:22 Har Lungpa Crossing to Kongta La (Roadhead) 20:03 Summary of 14 Hour Push ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WATCH SEASON 1 Every peak from Season 1 — Gyamshu, Peak 5885, Pologongka, Thugje and more:    • Peakbagging Ladakh   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DOWNLOAD THE GPX Route files for Chalung and every peak I've mapped: https://manav.in/hikes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LEARN TO HIKE INDEPENDENTLY If watching this expedition makes you want to explore the mountains on your own, the Hiking Field Course (HFC) is the best place to start. HFC is a 7-day hands-on course in the Himalayas where you'll learn practical outdoor skills including navigation, route planning, camping, risk management, mountain safety, first aid, nutrition and Leave No Trace principles. Whether you're completely new to hiking or looking to become a more confident independent trekker, HFC is designed to help you build the skills to explore the outdoors safely. Website: https://manav.in/hfc ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT PEAKBAGGING LADAKH Peakbagging Ladakh is a mission to climb trekking peaks across Ladakh while sharing practical information to help independent hikers plan safer expeditions. Every episode documents a different peak, covering route information, terrain, navigation challenges, elevation profile, weather, logistics, and lessons learned from the climb. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT Instagram:   / askmanav   Website: https://Hikex.in Strava:   / strava   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER High-altitude trekking involves serious risks including altitude sickness, rapidly changing weather, extreme cold, glacier hazards and difficult terrain. Never attempt these climbs without proper preparation, experience and appropriate safety measures. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #PeakbaggingLadakh #PhonkaKangri #Ladakh #HikeX #SpeedHiking