changtse

Example Sentences

• "We were now opposite the Chang La (North Col) which joins Mount Everest to Changtse (the North peak), and from this col was, so far as we were able to judge, the only route to the summit."
• "Once I'd established a balance and rhythm to skiing and breathing, I switched off the headlamp. Suddenly my world expanded from a small swath of lit snow to the immense darkness of the place. The tongue of the glacier I was climbing led up toward the North Col, 3,000 feet above me. To my right the great wall of the North Face rose 9,000 feet. On the left, Changtse loomed 5,000 feet high."
• "Preparation for the attempt had begun six years earlier when a climb on the neighbouring 7,500m peak of Changtse had been prevented by bad weather."
• "In 2013, he jumped from an altitude of 7,220 meters on Changtse and landed on the Central Rongbuk Glacier at the foot of the North Face of Mount Everest."
• "In between base camp and the next camp (6,065 metres), at the base of Changtse sits the dangerous Khumbu Icefall (between 5,486 and 5,791 metres)."