This is a small question with an awkward answer, and it is worth setting out plainly because every page about this trek states an altitude with complete confidence and no two of them agree.
The four numbers
OpenStreetMap’s summit node carries ele=2183, tagged with the hill’s names in Malayalam and Tamil. Onmanorama, in its May 2025 trekking guide, says “around 7,200 feet above sea level”, which is about 2,195 m. Onmanorama again, reporting the Forest Department’s own launch of the trek in November 2019, says 7,300 feet — about 2,225 m. And Roampedia’s own earlier record for this place said “about 2,100 m”, which is the lowest of the four and the one we have now retired.
The honest range is therefore roughly 2,180 to 2,225 m: a spread of about 45 metres, which is small in absolute terms and large in the sense that somebody has simply rounded a figure and everyone else has copied it. The Survey of India does not publish a spot height for this peak in any source we could reach, and the Forest Department’s own two announcements disagree with each other by a hundred feet.
The distance is worse
The mapped path — OpenStreetMap way 328823108, “Chokramudi trail”, tagged highway=path, sac_scale=hiking, trail_visibility=intermediate — measures 2.09 km from its road end at the Gap Road counter to the summit node. That is 4.2 km there and back. The Forest Department’s 2019 announcement said “a 3.5-km trek”. Onmanorama in 2025, and almost every travel site since, says “about 10 km” taking three to five hours.
Ten kilometres cannot be made to fit. The summit is 1.8 km from the road in a straight line and 2.09 km along a path that has been walked and surveyed. Unless the figure is counting a round trip plus an approach that nobody names, it is an error that has been copied for six years. Plan for about three hours on your feet and treat anything less as a bonus.
What is actually measurable
Two things on this hill are firm, because they come from the same surveyed geometry rather than from press copy. The path is 2.09 km. And the climb is about 460 metres, from a road at roughly 1,724 m to a summit at roughly 2,183 m — which works out at a sustained average gradient of about twenty-two per cent, held for two kilometres on tussock grass. That gradient, not the altitude, is the number that should shape what you put on your feet.
- Measured — the mapped path is 2.09 km one way, so 4.2 km round trip
- Measured — about 460 m of climb, an average gradient near 22%
- Measured — the counter is 13.2 km and about 20 minutes from Munnar town by road
- Contested — the summit altitude: 2,183 m (OSM), 7,200 ft (2025), 7,300 ft (2019), “about 2,100 m” (our own old record)
- Contested — “10 km, three to five hours”, which does not fit the surveyed path