Girnar's pilgrimage path runs to nearly ten thousand steps, and different religions have claimed different points along the same climb.
A long climb, several destinations
Reaching Girnar's various shrines involves a stone stairway commonly cited at close to ten thousand steps, with clusters of Jain temples situated partway up the mountain and a Hindu shrine to Dattatreya, an ascetic deity, near the very summit, meaning pilgrims of different traditions may stop at different points along the identical physical path rather than sharing a single destination.
Neminatha's mountain
In Jain tradition, Girnar is specifically associated with Neminatha, the twenty-second Tirthankara, said to have achieved renunciation and eventually liberation in connection with this mountain, giving Girnar its own distinct place within Jain sacred geography alongside, but separate from, Shatrunjaya's association with Adinatha and Sammed Shikharji's association with the larger group of Tirthankaras.
As this entry's companion article covers
The specific dispute over authority and access at the mountain's summit, along with the Ashokan edict inscribed near its base, is addressed in this entry's companion article; this entry instead sets out the mountain's layered religious geography and the practicalities of the climb itself.