kangshung face
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
a face on the east side of Mount Everest
Example Sentences
- "On the right, great contorted cornices, overhanging masses of snow and ice, stuck out like twisted fingers over the 10,000-foot drop of the Kangshung Face. Any move on to these cornices could only bring disaster."
- "For the Vaseline Intensive Care line of lotions, he helped create a campaign centering on a 1994 expedition to climb Mount Everest; a television commercial, a newspaper coupon insert and a direct-mail brochure all hailed Sandy Hill Pittman's efforts to become the first American woman to climb the mountain's Kangshung Face."
- "I don’t know whether someone will go to the North Face this year. There you can find pure loneliness. In the base camp, you are only joined by snow grouses. Otherwise, it is extremely quiet, and you have the view of the North Face. You won’t meet anyone at the Kangshung Face too."
- "We dropped a few steps down the windward side of the ridge as we continued, hyperaware of the overhanging cornices that could so easily lure us too close to the Kangshung Face."
- "Unable to see, they lost their bearings in the dark. The wind edged them to the lip of a 7,000ft drop down the Kangshung Face. “One mis-step here and it was a one-way ticket to Tibet,” Fox said."
Etymology
Partial calque of Mandarin 康雄壁 (Kāngxióng Bì); compare with Wade-Giles romanization: Kʻang¹-hsiung².