North Col

English North Col (Everest) thumb|North Col (between Mount Everest and Changtse) Etymology en Proper noun north col a col north of Mount Everest. from 20th c. en 1926 w:Francis Younghusband The Epic of Mount Everest https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.524003/ London Edward Arnold & Co. 605692699 13697597M 65 https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.524003/page/65/ The way to reach the summit was therefore now getting very much clearer. The North-East Ridge could be reached by the edge of the North Face from the North Col. From the North Col to the summit the way was clear. 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 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 1998 w:Jim Wickwire; Dorothy Bullitt Addicted to Danger: A Memoir https://archive.org/details/addictedtodanger00jimw/ w:Pocket Books 0-671-01991-0 40646263 193 https://archive.org/details/addictedtodanger00jimw/page/193/ With the help of yaks, the team set up an advanced base camp at twenty-one thousand feet, below the North Col, a saddle between Everest and Changtse, its satellite peak to the north. en 2003 Jon E. Lewis The Mammoth Book of How it Happened Everest https://archive.org/details/mammothbookofeye0000unse_n6w5/ London w:Constable & Robinson 1-84119-719-X 59373135 xxx https://archive.org/details/mammothbookofeye0000unse_n6w5/page/n31/ During the course of the reconnaissance, the East Rongbuk Glacier and the North Col were discovered, which seemed to offer a promising route to Everest’s North East Ridge and thence the summit itself. en 2011 Wade Davis Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest https://archive.org/details/intosilencegreat0000davi/ w:The Bodley Head 978-1-847-92184-0 775304740 28413560M xiii https://archive.org/details/intosilencegreat0000davi/page/n16/ Norton knew the cruel face of the mountain. From the North Col, the route to the summit follows the North Ridge, which rises dramatically in several thousand feet to fuse with the Northeast Ridge, which, in turn, leads to the peak. en Related terms en South Col Translations col Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 北坳 Běi'ào Anagrams en chlnoort Chorlton en Places in Tibet, China Places in China