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37 relations: Charles Alfred Bell, China, Dan Bryant (mountaineer), Digital elevation model, Eric Shipton, George Mallory, Gneiss, Granite, Guy Bullock, Himalayas, Huangshan, Intrusive rock, John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Khumbu, Khumbu Glacier, Khumbu Icefall, Khumbutse, Lhasa, Lho La, Mahalangur Himal, Mount Everest, Nepal, Nuptse, Pumori, Rongbuk Glacier, Sagarmatha Zone, Shigatse, Sill (geology), Solukhumbu District, The Geographical Journal, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tingri County, Topographic prominence, Western Cwm, 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition, 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition, 1953 British Mount Everest expedition.
Charles Alfred Bell
Sir Charles Alfred Bell, KCIE CMG (October 31, 1870 – March 8, 1945) was the British Political Officer for Bhutan, Sikkim and Tibet.
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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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Dan Bryant (mountaineer)
Leslie Vickery Bryant, known as Dan Bryant (1905–1957), was a New Zealand school teacher who was a member of the 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition, which was a preliminary to the full expedition of 1936 that attempted the summit.
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Digital elevation model
A digital elevation model (DEM) is a 3D CG representation of a terrain's surface – commonly of a planet (e.g. Earth), moon, or asteroid – created from a terrain's elevation data.
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Eric Shipton
Eric Earle Shipton CBE (1 August 1907 – 28 March 1977) was a distinguished English Himalayan mountaineer.
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George Mallory
George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest, in the early 1920s.
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Gneiss
Gneiss is a common distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Guy Bullock
Guy Henry Bullock (23 July 1887 – 1956) was a British diplomat who is best known for his participation in the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition.
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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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Huangshan
Huangshan (Bernstein, pp. 125–127., literal meaning: Yellow Mountain) is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China.
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Intrusive rock
Intrusive rock (also called plutonic rock) is formed when magma crystallizes and solidifies underground to form intrusions, for example plutons, batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
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John Hunt, Baron Hunt
Brigadier Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt (22 June 1910 – 7 November 1998) was a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest.
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Khumbu
Khumbu (also known as the Everest Region) is a region of northeastern Nepal on the Nepalese side of Mount Everest.
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Khumbu Glacier
The Khumbu Glacier is located in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal between Mount Everest and the Lhotse-Nuptse ridge.
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Khumbu Icefall
The Khumbu Icefall is an icefall located at the head of the Khumbu Glacier and the foot of the Western Cwm, which lies at an altitude of on the Nepali slopes of Mount Everest, not far above Base Camp and southwest of the summit.
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Khumbutse
Khumbutse is the first mountain west (6 km) of Mount Everest.
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Lhasa
Lhasa is a city and administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
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Lho La
The Lho La is a col on the border between Nepal and Tibet north of the Western Cwm, near Mount Everest.
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Mahalangur Himal
Mahālangūr Himāl (महालङ्गूर हिमाल, Mahālaṅgūra himāla) is a section of the Himalayas in northeast Nepal and south-central Tibet of China extending east from the pass Nangpa La between Rolwaling Himal and Cho Oyu, to the Arun River.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
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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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Nuptse
Nuptse or Nubtse (Sherpa: नुबचे, Wylie: Nub rtse) is a mountain in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal, in the Nepalese Himalayas.
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Pumori
Pumori (पुमोरि) (or Pumo Ri) is a mountain on the Nepal-Tibet border in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas.
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Rongbuk Glacier
The Rongbuk Glacier is located in the Himalaya of southern Tibet.
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Sagarmatha Zone
Sagarmāthā (सगरमाथा अञ्चल) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restruction of zones to Provinces.
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Shigatse
Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (Nepali: सिगात्से), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, with an area of.
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Sill (geology)
In geology, a sill is a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock.
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Solukhumbu District
Solukhumbu District (सोलुखुम्बु जिल्ला, Sherpa: Wylie: shar khum bu dzong kha), is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal.
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The Geographical Journal
The Geographical Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).
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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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Tingri County
Tingri County or Dhringgri County, is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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Topographic prominence
In topography, prominence characterizes the height of a mountain or hill's summit by the vertical distance between it and the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.
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Western Cwm
The Western Cwm is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face of Mount Everest.
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1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
The 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition set off to explore how it might be possible to get to the vicinity of Mount Everest, to reconnoitre possible routes for ascending the mountain, and – if possible – make the first ascent of the highest mountain in the world.
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1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
Precipitated by unexpected permission from Tibet, the 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition was planned at short notice as a preliminary to an attempt on the summit of Mount Everest in 1936.
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1953 British Mount Everest expedition
The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit on Friday, 1953.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingtren
