Americans David Gottlieb and Joe Puryear have climbed 22,237 foot Jobo Rinjang, one of Nepal’s largest previously unsummitted peaks. The pair reached the peak after several days of exploring and acclimatizing themselves upon the Lunag massif, of which Jobo Rinjang is a satellite summit.The duo slept the night atop the summit, hoping to make a break for Lunag I, the highest peak in the group and the highest in Nepal yet to be climbed. Dangerously unstable snow turned the two away from the last and highest spire.Before their summit bivy, the men crossed acres of exposed glaciers only to spend 21 hours climbing the 5500 foot south face of the mountain, dodging falling rock and the self-slipups of sleep deprivation. Like many big Himalayan peaks, Jobo Rinjang perches on the border between Nepal and China. Gottlieb and Puryear inked their names in the record books just last fall when they completed the first ascent of 22,096 foot Kang Nachugo. --Sean Brander
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