Lhotse

English

Etymology

From Tibetan ལྷོ་རྩེ (lho rtse).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloʊt(ˈ)seɪ/, /ˈlɒt-/, /-si/

Proper noun

Lhotse

1. A Himalayan mountain on the border between Nepal and China, the fourth highest in the world.
   • 1922, C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921‎^[1], Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 116:

     Mount Everest was only 3 or 4 miles away from us. From it to the South-east swept a huge amphitheatre of mighty peaks culminating in a new and unsurveyed peak, 28,100 feet in height, to which we gave the name of Lhotse, which in Tibetan means the South Peak.

   • 2017 April 30, Gopal Sharma, “Swiss climber falls to death, preparing for Mount Everest ascent”, in Sam Holmes, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 April 2017, World News‎^[3]:

     Steck was in the area acclimatizing ahead of a bid to climb Everest through the less-climbed West Ridge route and traverse to Lhotse, the world's fourth highest peak - at 8,516 meters (27,940 feet) in May.

   • 2018 October 4, Jim Morrison, quotee, “Nelson and Morrison succeed historic ski descent from Lhotse”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[4], archived from the original on December 02, 2020‎^[5]:

     On the 8516-meter-high Lhotse, the fourth highest of all mountains, the two Americans skied down the so-called “Dream Line”: from the summit through the narrow, 45 to 50 degrees steep Lhotse Couloir down to Camp 2 in the Western Qwm at 6,400 meters. “We did it,” Jim writes about a photo of his ski tips that he posted on Instagram today: “Ski tips about to make the first turn ever off the summit of Lhotse. Almost 28,000’ the summit was sugar snow and extra steep. A few careful turns and a hop got me into the couloir to complete a dream I’ve been working towards for a lifetime.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lhotse.

Translations

Himalayan mountain

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洛子峰 (Luòzǐ Fēng)

• Czech: Lhoce f

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lhotse”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1048, column 3
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lhotse”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1728, column 2
• “Lhotse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Holste, Holtes, Tholes, helots, hostel, hotels, hôtels, loseth, shotel, tholes