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Shishapangma

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Shishapangma, also called Gosainthān, is the 14th highest mountain in the world at above sea level. [1]

45 relations: Alan Hinkes, Alex Lowe, Alpine style, Artur Hajzer, Boyan Petrov, Carlos Carsolio, Catherine Destivelle, China, Doug Scott, Ed Viesturs, Eight-thousander, Elizabeth Hawley, Erhard Loretan, Government of China, Himalayas, Jean Troillet, Jean-Christophe Lafaille, Jerzy Kukuczka, Junko Tabei, Krzysztof Wielicki, Langtang, List of highest mountains on Earth, List of peaks by prominence, Marcos Couch, Mexicans, Michael Dacher, Nepal, Nyalam County, Piotr Morawski, Reinhold Messner, Sanskrit, Sebastian Haag, Simone Moro, Standard Tibetan, Tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetic languages, Toni Hagen, Ueli Steck, Ultra-prominent peak, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Wang Fuzhou, Wojciech Kurtyka, Xu Jing (mountaineer), Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales).

Alan Hinkes

Alan Hinkes OBE (born 26 April 1954) is an English Himalayan high-altitude mountaineer from Northallerton in North Yorkshire.

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Alex Lowe

Stewart Alexander "Alex" Lowe (24 December 1958 – 5 October 1999) was an American mountaineer.

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Alpine style

Alpine style refers to mountaineering in a self-sufficient manner, thereby carrying all of one's food, shelter, equipment, etc.

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Artur Hajzer

Artur Hajzer (28 June 1962 – 7 July 2013) was a Polish mountaineer best known for the first winter ascent of Annapurna on February 3, 1987 together with Jerzy Kukuczka.

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Boyan Petrov

Boyan Petrov (Боян Петров, born 7 February 1973 - disappeared May 2018) was a Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer, working at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.

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Carlos Carsolio

Carlos Carsolio Larrea (born 4 October 1962 in Mexico City) is a Mexican mountain climber.

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Catherine Destivelle

Catherine Monique Suzanne Destivelle (born 24 July 1960) is a French rock climber and mountaineer.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Doug Scott

Douglas Keith Scott CBE, FRSGS known as Doug Scott (born 29 May 1941, Nottingham, England), is an English mountaineer noted for the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975.

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Ed Viesturs

Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is a high-altitude mountaineer and corporate speaker.

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Eight-thousander

The eight-thousanders are the 14 independentIn making any "highest mountains" list, one needs to use a criterion to exclude subpeaks and only list independent mountains.

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Elizabeth Hawley

Elizabeth Ann Hawley (November 9, 1923 – January 26, 2018) was an American journalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions.

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Erhard Loretan

Erhard Loretan (28 April 1959 – 28 April 2011) was a Swiss mountain climber, often described as one of the greatest mountaineers of all times.

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Government of China

The central government of the People's Republic of China is divided among several state organs.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

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Jean Troillet

Jean Troillet (born 10 March 1948) is a professional mountain climber.

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Jean-Christophe Lafaille

Jean-Christophe Lafaille (31 March 1965 – 27 January 2006) was a French mountaineer noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as "perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya", when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a broken arm, after his climbing partner had been killed in a fall.

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Jerzy Kukuczka

Jerzy Kukuczka (24 March 1948 in Katowice, Poland – 24 October 1989 Lhotse, Nepal) was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber.

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Junko Tabei

was a Japanese mountaineer.

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Krzysztof Wielicki

Krzysztof Wielicki (born January 5, 1950 in Szklarka Przygodzicka, municipality Ostrzeszów, Poland) is a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber, regarded as one of the greatest Polish climbers in history.

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Langtang

Langtang is a region in the Himalayas of Nepal to the north of the Kathmandu Valley and bordering Tibet.

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List of highest mountains on Earth

There are at least 109 mountains on Earth with elevations greater than above sea level.

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List of peaks by prominence

This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.

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Marcos Couch

Marcos José Couch (born June 14, 1960 in Buenos Aires), Argentinean mountain climber, known for his professional achievements in mountains such as the Shishapangma in Tibet, or the Fitz Roy in Patagonia.

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Mexicans

Mexicans (mexicanos) are the people of the United Mexican States, a multiethnic country in North America.

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Michael Dacher

Michael Dacher (21 August 1933 – 3 December 1994) was a German mountaineer and extreme climber.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Nyalam County

Nyalam County (Tibetan: gnya' lam rdzong) is a county in Tibet's Shigatse Prefecture.

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Piotr Morawski

Piotr Morawski (December 27, 1976 – April 8, 2009) was a Polish mountaineer.

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Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner (born 17 September 1944) is an Italian mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the bilingual Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Sebastian Haag

Sebastian Haag (23 May 1978 – 24 September 2014) was a German extreme ski mountaineer and extreme skier.

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Simone Moro

Simone Moro (born 27 October 1967) is an Italian alpinist.

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Standard Tibetan

Standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken form of the Tibetic languages.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Tibet Autonomous Region

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Tibetic languages

The Tibetic languages are a cluster of Sino-Tibetan languages descended from Old Tibetan, spoken across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan.

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Toni Hagen

Toni Hagen (17 August 1917 in Luzern – 18 April 2003 in Lenzerheide) was a Swiss geologist and a pioneer of Swiss development assistance.

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Ueli Steck

Ueli Steck (4 October 1976 – 30 April 2017) was a Swiss rock climber and mountaineer.

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is defined as a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more.

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Wanda Rutkiewicz

Wanda Rutkiewicz (February 4, 1943 – May 12–13, 1992) was a Polish computer engineer and mountain climber.

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Wang Fuzhou

Wang Fuzhou (1935 – 18 July 2015) was a Chinese mountain climber, born in Xihua County, Henan.

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Wojciech Kurtyka

Wojciech Kurtyka (also Voytek Kurtyka, born 25 July 1947, in Skrzynka near Kłodzko) is a Polish mountaineer and rock climber, one of the pioneers of the alpine style of climbing the biggest walls in the Greater Ranges.

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Xu Jing (mountaineer)

Xu Jing (1927 – 15 October 2011) was a Chinese mountaineer and leader of the first team to reach the summit of Shishapangma.

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Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales)

The Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) is a charitable organisation, registered with the Charity Commission, providing youth hostel accommodation in England and Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishapangma

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