Cho Oyu

English thumb| Etymology From en ne चोयु. Pronunciation chōʹ ōyo͞oʹ Proper noun 1 en mountain p/Koshi c/Nepal ; mountain ar/Tibet A mountain in the Himalayas, on the border between <<dist/Solukhumbu>>, <<p/Koshi>>, <<c/Nepal>> and <<county:Suf/Tingri>>, <<plcity/Shigatse>>, <<ar:Suf/Tibet>>, <<c/China>>; the world’s sixth highest mountain. en 1922 E. O. Wheeler Appendix II: The Photographic Survey Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921 https://archive.org/details/mounteverestreco00howa/ w:Longmans, Green and Co. 3767054 326694M 332 https://archive.org/details/mounteverestreco00howa/page/332/ I had a good view of the glacier from here : the East side is very steep and broken, with several tributary glaciers flowing down from Cho Oyu and Pk. 25,909, and from a 23,000-foot Peak (not triangulated) to the North of the latter. en 1957 1955 w:Herbert Tichy Turquoise Goddess Cho Oyu: Gnade der Götter by Ullstein Verlag Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods Basil Creighton https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3093/ London w:Methuen & Co 876789734 14 https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3093/page/14/ This may seem a strange and unprofessional way of beginning the story of the ascent of a 26,000-foot mountain, but it was not just the wish to conquer a high peak that turned our thoughts to Cho Oyu; it was the longing for the boundless peace of evening such as these."Next year, Cho Oyu?" Pasang asked."Cho Oyu," I agreed.Adjiba brought the fried liver of the goat."We go for Cho Oyu," Pasang told him."Aha," Adjiba said, cutting a cucumber into thin slices.That's how we decided to attack the seventh highest mountain in the world. en 2006 August Michael Buckley Tibet w:Bradt Travel Guides https://archive.org/details/tibetbuck00buck/ w:Globe Pequot Press 2nd 1-84162-164-1 875922540 8921008M 200 https://archive.org/details/tibetbuck00buck/page/200/ Tingri lies at the edge of a vast plain. There are great views of the Himalayan giants to the south, assuming there's no cloud cover. Everest, or the uppermost part of it, is visible to the far left, but from this distance it doesn't look like a mammoth. However, Cho Oyu, straight ahead, looks stunning. It's worth taking a short hike to the south of Tingri for better views; another viewpoint is from the top of the hill above the village, where there are some old fort ruins. en 12 November 2017 Russian base jumper dies in Nepal's Everest region https://web.archive.org/web/20171112122447/https://www.france24.com/en/20171112-russian-base-jumper-dies-nepals-everest-region 12 November 2017 w:France 24 Rozov set a new world record in 2013 for the highest-ever base jump when he leapt from Changstse, a peak in the Everest massif towering at 7,220 metres in a specially-designed wingsuit.He broke his own record three years later by jumping from a height of 7,700 metres on Mount Cho Oyu. en 2022-01-28 huaxia Nepali team to explore 1st commercial route to Mt. Cho Oyu from southern side https://web.archive.org/web/20220128173804/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/20220128/82e613e80bb34311905f0ca8b0000065/c.html 28 January 2022 w:Xinhua News A team of Nepali mountaineers has set out for Mt. Cho Oyu with a view to opening the first commercial route to the top of the world's sixth tallest peak from the Nepali side, officials and mountaineering agencies said."A team led by veteran Gelje Sherpa set out for Mt. Cho Oyu on Wednesday," Mingma Devid Sherpa, founder of the Elite Exped which is one of the sponsors of the expedition, told Xinhua.[...]"Because of the low success rate from the Nepali side, we have failed to commercialize our existing routes," said Santa Bir Lama, president of Nepal Mountaineering Association. "The team is aiming to find the easiest way to Mt. Cho Oyu from the Nepal side." en February 19, 2023 David Gardner A Race Up the World’s Tallest Mountains, and for Gender Equality https://web.archive.org/web/20230219220248/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/sports/kristin-harila-record.html/ 19 February 2023 Sports When approached from the Tibet side, Cho Oyu is the safest of the 14 peaks. But Harila and her team had been forced to attempt it from the Nepal side because their visas and permits to enter Tibet had never been approved by the Chinese government. And even if they did accomplish this groundbreaking ascension of Cho Oyu, they would have no way to access the mission’s final peak as the Shishapangma mountain is entirely within Tibet. en Translations mountain Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 卓奧友 Nepali: ne चोयु Tibetan: bo ཇོ་བོ་དབུ་ཡ Further reading Cho Oyu en 1952 Cho Oyu Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 404 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/404/ 3 en 2008 Cho Oyu Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 792 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/792/ 3