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Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. In addition to the main summit, Lhotse Middle (East) is 8,414 metres and Lhotse Shar is 8,383 metres. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ... Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Makalu and Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station. ... Khumbu is one of three subregions of the main Sherpa settlement of the Himalaya, the other two being Solu and Pharak. ... The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... In climbing, a first ascent (FA) is the first climb to reach the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Southern and northern Mount Everest climbing routes as seen from the International Space Station. ... Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above mean sea level. ...

Lhotse (main) was first climbed on May 18, 1956 by the Swiss team Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger. On May 12, 1979, Zepp Maierl and Rolf Walter of Austria made the first ascent of Lhotse Shar. On May 23, 2001, the first ascent of Lhotse Middle was made by Eugeny Vinogradsky, Serguei Timofeev, Alexei Bolotov and Petr Kuznetsov of a Russian expedition. May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fritz Luchsinger was the first of two men (the other being Ernst Reiss) to successfully reach the summit of the peak of Lhotse. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

On 31 December 1988, Krzysztof Wielicki, a Polish climber, completed the first ascent of a eight-thousander in winter. December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Makalu and Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station. ... In many parts of the world, winter is associated with snow. ...

As of October 2003, 243 climbers have summitted Lhotse and 11 have died. 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Elevation discrepancy

† Figures regarding the exact height of Lhotse seem to differ. Heights of 8,501 and 8,516 metres are often given.

Timeline

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Lhotse Face

The western flank of Lhotse is known as the Lhotse Face. Any climber bound for the South Col on Everest must climb this 1,125m (3,700ft) wall of glacial blue ice. This face rises at 40 and 50 degree pitches with the occasional 80 degree bulges. High altitude climbing Sherpas and the lead climbers will set fixed ropes up this big wall of ice. Climbers and porters need to establish a good rhythm of front-pointing and pulling themselves up the ropes using their jumar. Two rocky sections called the Yellow Band and the Geneva Spur interrupt the icy ascent on the upper part of the face. Download high resolution version (1000x662, 416 KB)The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station looking south-south-east over the Tibetan Plateau. ... Download high resolution version (1000x662, 416 KB)The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station looking south-south-east over the Tibetan Plateau. ... The word Sherpa originally referred to an ethnic group from the most mountainous region of Niple, high into the Himalayas (although many of them now live in India). ... Front pointing is a fundamental technique in mountaineering and ice climbing. ... This page describes terms and jargon related to climbing and mountaineering. ...

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