Kangshung Face

English Kangshung Glacier Etymology en cmn 康雄壁 Kāngxióng Bì; compare with Wade-Giles romanization: Kʻang¹-hsiung².en Proper noun Kangshung Face a face on the east side of Mount Everest en 1953 w:Edmund Hillary The Summit The Ascent of Everest https://archive.org/details/ascentofeverest0000john_k4e1/ w:Hodder & Stoughton 602167807 202 https://archive.org/details/ascentofeverest0000john_k4e1/page/202/ 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. en March 7, 1995 Stuart Elliott THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; In the artificial world of Madison Avenue, a few campaigns dare to embrace reality in their pitches. w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150526142202/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/07/business/media-business-advertising-artificial-world-madison-avenue-few-campaigns-dare.html 26 May 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/07/business/media-business-advertising-artificial-world-madison-avenue-few-campaigns-dare.html 0362-4331 1645522 Business 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. en 14 February 2015 Kaltenbrunner: “All Everest parties around one table!” https://web.archive.org/web/20230131202825/https://blogs.dw.com/adventuresports/index.html%3Fp=24109.html 31 January 2023 https://blogs.dw.com/adventuresports/index.html%3Fp%3D24109.html w:Deutsche Welle 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. en 2017 w:Matt Dickinson 12 Killer Storm: A Terror Attack at Everest Base Camp https://archive.org/details/killerstormterro0000dick/ Shrine Bell 9781911342366 1064648259 273 https://archive.org/details/killerstormterro0000dick/page/273/ 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. en June 21 2018 Charlotte Fox obituary w:The Times https://web.archive.org/web/20180622124423/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/charlotte-fox-obituary-gv0vdk37g 22 June 2018 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/charlotte-fox-obituary-gv0vdk37g 0140-0460 181820531 Obituary 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. en Further reading Kangshung Face en Places in China