Changtse

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Changtse

  1. A mountain in Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
    • 1988 April 17, Liz Nichol, “EVEREST IS CHALLENGING_WITHIN LIMITS”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 April 2023[2]:
      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.
    • 2013 May 12, Graeme Lennox, “‘I’m on the summit of the world’”, in The Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 October 2021:
      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.
    • 2017 November 11, “Valery Rozov killed in an accident on Ama Dablam”, in DW News[4], archived from the original on 03 December 2020[5]:
      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.

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