What mountain did the Pandavas ascend at the end of their lives?

At the end of their lives, the Pandavas ascended Mount Meru on their final journey toward heaven.

This episode appears in Mahaprasthanika Parva, the Mahabharata’s seventeenth book. After the destruction of the Yadava clan and the departure of Krishna, Yudhishthira and his brothers renounced their kingdom. Draupadi joined them, and a dog followed as they traveled northward through the Himalayas toward the celestial mountain.

As the party climbed, Draupadi and each of the Pandava brothers fell in turn. Yudhishthira explained that each had a particular failing: partiality, pride, vanity, or gluttony. Yudhishthira alone continued, refusing to abandon the dog when Indra arrived in a celestial chariot. The dog then revealed itself as Dharma, Yudhishthira’s divine father, completing his final test.

Some retellings use the name Sumeru, and Mount Meru is a cosmic mountain in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions rather than an ordinary geographic peak. Mount Kailash is another sacred mountain frequently connected with Hindu mythology, but it is not the standard answer for this Mahabharata episode.