Reo Purgyil
Himalayan mountain
Reo Purgyil (6,816 m), and its shorter twin known as Leo Pargial or Leo Pargil (6,791 m), are twin mountain peaks at the southern end of the Zanskar Range in the Western Himalaya located on the border between Himachal Pradesh, India and Tibet, China.
Reo Purgyil is the highest mountain peak in the state of Himachal Pradesh. This dome shaped peak, often obscured by clouds, is part of a great massif that rises above the Sutlej river and overlooks the western valleys of Tibet. The Spiti River, a right bank tributary of the Satluj, drains the northern face of the massif.
Leo Pargial, a well-known slightly shorter twin of Reo Purgyil, is located about 2 km north of Reo Purgyil.
NH-505 passes by the nearby Nako village located on the slopes of the Reo Purgyil mountain, close to the India-Tibet border.
Climbing history
Reo Purgyil
1st official ascent (1971) by ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police)
2nd ascent (1991) by E. Theophilus and team
2018 ascent by Rajsekhar Maity and a Bengali team
Leo Pargial
Greek-British author and mountaineer, Marco Alexander Pallis, famous for his writings on Tibetan Buddhism, made the first documented ascent of Leo Pargial peak (6790m) in 1933.
2020 ascent by 12 members of ITBP led by Deputy Commandant Kuldeep Singh and the Deputy Leader was Deputy Commandant Dhramender Thakur. Reportedly the only successful mountaineering expedition in North India during the COVID-19 pandemic
Tourism
Nako, base for the trekking, also has tourist hotels, homestays, restaurants, a lake, Buddhist Gompa.
Transport
NH-505 passes through the nearby Nako.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17020614. Authority coordinates are 31.884, 78.735. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1991, 2018 and 1933.
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