Changtse

English Etymology en Proper noun en mountain county/Tingri County prefecture-level city/Shigatse ar:Suf/Tibet China. en 1922 C. K. Howard-Bury The Upper Kharta Valley and the 20,000-foot Camp Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921 https://archive.org/details/mounteverestreco00howa/ w:Longmans, Green and Co. 3767054 326694M 142 https://archive.org/details/mounteverestreco00howa/page/142/ 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. en April 17, 1988 Liz Nichol EVEREST IS CHALLENGING_WITHIN LIMITS w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230402150601/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1988/04/17/everest-is-challenging_within-limits/689b33b6-603f-49bf-94c4-6fa6c33a3e20/ 02 April 2023 0190-8286 2269358 https://archive.is/lb0k4 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. en May 12, 2013 Graeme Lennox ‘I’m on the summit of the world’ w:The Times https://archive.is/d7AXg 19 October 2021 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/im-on-the-summit-of-the-world-jtwfmhnj7k0 0140-0460 181820531 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. en 11 November 2017 Valery Rozov killed in an accident on Ama Dablam https://web.archive.org/web/20201203174824/https://blogs.dw.com/adventuresports/index.html%3Fp=32191.html 03 December 2020 https://blogs.dw.com/adventuresports/index.html%3Fp%3D32191.html w:DW News https://archive.is/ERMWD 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. en 9 May 2024 Kamala Thiagarajan How overcrowding on peaks like Everest and Himalayan trails leads to danger and a rise in trash despite Nepal’s rules w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240509032936/https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3261688/how-overcrowding-peaks-everest-and-himalayan-trails-leads-danger-and-rise-trash-despite-nepals-rules https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3261688/how-overcrowding-peaks-everest-and-himalayan-trails-leads-danger-and-rise-trash-despite-nepals-rules May 09, 2024 1563-9371 648902513 Travel & Leisure https://archive.ph/tJuSC 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). Translations mountain Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 章子峰 Further reading Changtse