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Country's highest peak Tlangmoy Swapnachura
Mountaineers claim

A group of mountaineers yesterday claimed that Tlangmoy Swapnachura is the country's highest peak situated in Bandarban district.

The claim was made by some seven members of a mountaineering club named Extremist at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity.

They said the height of the peak is 3461 feet, some 300 feet higher than Keokradong, which is hitherto the highest peak in Bangladesh.

The members of the team urged the government and the survey department to take necessary measures to declare the peak as the highest one after verifying their claim.

Sajal Khaled, a member of the team, said they measured the height of the peak with a GPS device.

The team led by Yahyia Khan climbed the peak of the Tlangmoy Swapnachura on December 24 of last year.

Five other members of the team are: Walid Ashraf Gini, Opar Ahmed, Mirza Zakaria Beg, Muhammad Salauddin and Umme Habiba Shoshi.

They also claimed that they are the first ever Bangladeshis to climb the peak of Tlangmoy Swapnachura located along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=17928

^^ This may well be the highest point in BD if the stats are true, but as I have posted several times before, Keokradong is certainly not. In fact the mountain commonly referred to as Keokradong is not even the actual Keokradong, which is located further north, according to a number of surveys. At any rate both these "Keokradongs" are below 1000 m and there are a bunch of taller peaks in BD. The mountain most accurately identified up until now as the highest point in BD is an unnamed peak in Mowdok Mual range with elevation between 1052 m and 1064 m...I posted a GoogleEarth image of this peak last year. I am curious to know the GPS coordinates of this new peak...it has similar height to the Mowdok Mual peak and like Mowdok Mual is also located along the Myanmar border. So I am wondering if they are one and the same. The coordinates would clarify.

^^Yes you did.... and I virtual flight to that place using GoogleEarth.

here are some photos of Keokaradong.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/Dhaka/Dhaka1/Dhaka2/keokradong.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/Dhaka/Dhaka1/Dhaka2/keokradong2.jpg

very beautiful pictures....