Meru Peak is a
mountain which lies in the Garwhal
Himalayas, in the
Uttarakhand region of
India. It lies between
Thalay Sagar and
Shivling, and has some highly challenging routes. It is high. It was the site of the world's highest
BASE Jump from 'Earth', by Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan from a height of in June 2006 but has since been surpassed by
Valery Rozov's 2013 jump from Everest's North Face. The mountain has three peaks: southern , central , and northern . The two higher peaks were climbed earlier than the harder central peak, which was first climbed in a 2001 solo ascent by
Valery Babanov, and for a second and third time in 2006.