There are varying explanations of the name Kamet. C. F. Meade gives the pronunciation as , and claims that it is known to Tibetans as Kangmen, signifying huge grandmother of a sacred snow chain. However, Frank Smythe writes in his book Kamet Conquered that the genesis of the name is from the Tibetan word Kangmed (the lower snows, from kang, snow, and med, little), as distinct from the higher snows of the Kailash range, 110 miles east of Kamet. (This range is slightly lower than Kamet, its highest peak being Gurla Mandhata, 7,728 m/25,355 ft; however it stands more fully on the high Tibetan Plateau). At dawn and dusk, the copper colored rock of Mount Kamet reflecting the oblique rays of the sun on its hanging glaciers appears to set these glaciers aglow with crackling flames and bathes the mountain in a red burning glow. Hence the term glacier fire is also used as an allusion to the name Kamet.