Api is the highest peak in the Yoka Pahar Section of Gurans Himal, part of the Himalayas in the extreme northwest corner of Nepal, near the border with Tibet.

[3][failed verification] It is a little-known peak in a rarely visited part of the Himalayas, but it rises dramatically over the low surrounding terrain.

[4][failed verification] Api peak's south face rises 3,300 metres (10,830 ft) above its base.

The Doshisha Alpine Society of Japan successfully completed the Northwest Face route attempted by the 1954 party.

[6][7] In 1980, a British Army Mountaineering Association expedition made an attempt to climb the peak by the south face reaching within a few hundred metres of the summit.