The highlands surrounding the peak were inhabited before European contact, and the peak was known as Nemangkawi in Amungkal. Puncak Jaya was named ‘Carstensz Pyramid’, after Dutch explorer Jan Carstensz who first sighted the glaciers on the peak of the mountain on a rare clear day in 1623 (Carstensz was ridiculed in Europe when he said he had seen snow near the equator).[citation needed] This name is still used among mountaineers.[citation needed] Although the snowfield of Puncak Jaya was reached as early as 1909 by a Dutch explorer, Hendrik Albert Lorentz with six of his indigenous Dayak Kenyah porters recruited from the Apo Kayan in Borneo[3], the peak was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (of Seven Years in Tibet fame) with three friends — Temple, Kippax and Huizenga.
This highest peak in Oceania – Carstensz Pyramid (16.023 feet/ 4884m) one of the most exotic world’s famous SEVEN SUMMITS the most spectacular adventures in Irian Jaya, climbing the glacier covered Puncak Jaya or Carstensz Pyramid located in the Mount Lorenz Reserve National Park. Trekking to the Carstensz Pyramid is one of the most beautiful treks Papua can offer. Although it is demanding the things you’ll see and experience on the way, are wonderful and absolutely unique. It begins at the height of 2000 m in an area of mountainous rain forest. You wade through rivers, climb over logs and primitive bridges, and then the biotope changes into a short belt of misty forests, which opens to the Kembalo Plato that is situated at 3500 m. Here, the endless forest of the giant tree ferns begins.
ACCESS TO MOUNT CARSTENSZ PYRAMID
First access: To use the Land Journey from Village of Ilaga, Beoga and Sugapa with trekking 4 – 6 day to reach Carstensz Base Camp. We were used many times this access and running successful. Trekking to the Carstensz Pyramid is one of the most beautiful treks Papua can offer. Although it is demanding things you will see and experience on the way, wonderful and absolutely unique.
From: www.carstenszpeak.com
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