Saturday, November 10, 2012

Lhotse Mountain

The Lhotse Mountain is located in Nepal of Asia.Lhotse, also called LhotseMountain.jos.500pix.jpg
one of the world’s highest mountains (27,890 feet [8,501] m]), consisting of three Himalayan summits on the Nepalese-Tibetan (Chinese) border just south of Mount Everest, to which it is joined by a 25,000-foot (7,600-metre) ridge. On May 18, 1956, Fritz Luchsinger and Ernest Reiss, two Swiss climbers, made the first ascent of the mountain. It is sometimes considered part of the Mount Everest massif. Lhotse is Tibetan for “south peak”; E1 was the original survey symbol (denoting Everest 1) given by the Survey of India (1931).

Lhotse   is the fourth highest Mountain on Earth after Mountain Everest and Kanchenjunga and  and is connected to Everest via the South Col. In addition to the main summit at 8,516 metres (27,940 ft) above sea level, Lhotse Middle (East) is 8,414 metres (27,605 ft) and Lhotse Shar is 8,383 metres (27,503 ft). It is located at the border between Tibet of china and the Khumbu region of Nepal.

The  Elevation of Lhotse is 27,890 feet 8,501 meters and its Location is  Nepal, Asia
First Ascent of  its are  Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss of Switzerland on May 18, 1956.

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