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| Elevation: | 4,760 m (15,617 ft) | Prominence: | 2,758 m |
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| Ribu category: |  Sangat Tinggi |
Province: | Papua |
| Google Earth: | kml | Other names: | Abom in local Una language, Mount Juliana |
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Photos
 View of the Juliana summit (from ‘To The Mountains of the Stars’, published 1962)
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 Juliana summit seen from the east (from ‘To The Mountains of the Stars’, published 1962)
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 Ice and snow covering the Juliana summit (from ‘To The Mountains of the Stars’, published 1962)
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 The descent: left, Escher: right, Tissing (from ‘To The Mountains of the Stars’, published 1962)
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Bagging It!
Puncak Mandala is the highest peak in the Star Mountains and had an ice cap until very recently. Apparently, the usual trek to the peak begins in the village of Bime to the north of the mountain and follows hunting trails up a reasonably gentle incline. The first expedition to the summit on the route was made by a Dutch group in 1953. However, the approach sounds very difficult indeed – one Australian expedition failed to reach the mountain on this route in 1996.
The approach from the south (via the South Face) is a lot more difficult in technical terms – it has only been successfully climbed from the south on one occasion in 1990 by Bruce Parry and Mark Anstice. It sounds very much like a route only suitable for experienced rock climbers. Ricky Munday is leading a party to attempt a second ascent via this route in December 2010. It will involve flying into Sumtamon and then trekking in for a week to the Eilanden River. After that they will rely on information provided by Mark Anstice and follow hunting trails used by men from the village of Tabasyk and onwards up the southern cliffs. Good luck Mr Munday!
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Origins and Meaning
‘Mandala’ means a magic circle or shrine built for meditation in Javanese. So, “Shrine Peak” might be a reasonable translation.
Some fascinating information on Mandala (+Puncak Jaya and Trikora) and a forthcoming trip by Ricky Munday here http://www.wideworldmag.com/features/indonesian-adventure
Mark Anstice actually wrote a book about his successful ascent. It’s on Amazon UK here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Contact-Mark-Anstice/dp/1903070260
He also wrote a piece on the Guardian newspaper…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/23/indonesia.weekend7
and made a TV programme – “Cannibals and Crampons”
A press release about Ricky Munday’s forthcoming attempt to climb this and two other Papuan giants….
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FORMER RUGBY CHAMP RICKY MUNDAY ARRIVES IN PAPUA PROVINCE – PREPARES FOR TREK TO PUNCAK MANDALA – FIRST OF 3 HIGHEST PEAKS HE HOPES TO SUMMIT IN SIX-WEEK CLIMBING EXPEDITION
London, November 23, 2010 – Ricky Munday, 33, today announced that he has arrived in Jayapura, Papua Province for his six week Australasia 3 Peaks Glacier Expedition. Munday will fly to Bime in the Star Mountains tomorrow morning from where he will start the trek to the base camp of Puncak Mandala (4,684m), the first of the three peaks he will attempt to summit during the six-week expedition. He will use porters from the Ngalum tribe to gain local support and reduce the risk of Papuan separatist groups interfering with his solo attempt to summit Puncak Mandala.
The other mountains, located in the remote Central Highlands in the Pegunungan Maoke Central Range, are Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid, 4,884m) and Puncak Trikora (4,730m). Munday will travel by light aircraft and trek through extremely remote and challenging rainforest to each base camp.
The six-week expedition has three objectives: to be the first to summit the three highest peaks in Australasia in a single expedition; to verify the extent of the ice-cap cover on each of the three peaks for climate change scientists at the Universities of Glasgow, Indiana and Texas A&M and the World Glacier Monitoring Service – and to raise funds for Raleigh, the youth programme.
Ricky will live on freeze dried food and cope with the ever present dangers of malaria, dangerous snakes and altitude sickness. Temperatures will vary dramatically from extreme heat in the rainforest to sub-zero temperatures in the mountains.
Ricky Munday, who played rugby for Glasgow Hawks, harbours an ambition to climb the three highest peaks on each continent. His achievements to date include completing the Marathon des Sables and organising and leading a two-man expedition to Khan Tengri (6,995m) in Kyrgyzstan. In 2008, he organised and led the Africa 3 Peaks Expedition, which attempted to climb Mount Stanley (5099m), Mount Kenya (5199m) and Mount Kilimanjaro (5895m) in 20 days. The project raised over £6,000 for a children’s home in Nairobi where Munday had spent 4 months working on secondment.
Saya berasal dari anak Tanime, kalau Bapak Perlu berkomunikasi mengenai wilayah gunung Juliana atau mandala silakan hubungi alamat diatas ini
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