Everest Tibetan word for "Virgin", elevation 8,848 meters, the world's first summit, is similar to an east-west arc of mountains, located in the middle of the Nepalese Himalayas on the border, Tingri county in Xigaze Prefecture of Tibet south. Qing Emperor Kangxi 1967 (1717) compilation of the "imperial Yu at a Glance map" in "Zhu mother Mae Lin Lang", accurately marked the peak position. 1858 Survey of India under the auspices of trespassing in Yingren former director of the council will Feier Shi (S. G. Everest) the surname named this peak. In 1952 the Chinese government this name the peak Mount Everest. Hill Ticheng giant pyramid-shaped, huge glaciers, for a maximum of 26 km. Yamashita is the world's highest temple Rong Busi. May 25, 1960 and May 27, 1975 from the north slope of the Chinese team has boarded peak. Chinese Academy of Sciences has repeatedly organized large-scale comprehensive scientific investigation, access to important scientific information.

Distribution of Mount Everest in Tibet and Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan and other countries in its main parts in China and Nepal junction. The Himalayas is the world's one of the youngest mountain range, between the ages of 1,000-2,000 years. It consists of many parallel mountain ranges, the total length of 2,450 km East and West, North and South 200-300 km wide. Was extended south of the arc, is the complex structure of the young fold mountains. Firewood from north to south into LANDesk Hill, Ladakh mountains, the Himalayas, the small Himalayan mountains and Xiwalike 4 zone, the main vein to the Himalayas most Gao Jun, a width of 50-90 km, the main crystalline rock Pose. The Himalayas on the customary three-paragraph: Elipulan India to the west of Nanga Parbat for the West Himalayas; Champlain east of the Nepalese wood that peak to peak Mola Li Yadong Chuo between China and the Himalayas; Asia Tung Tai Guaiwan Yarlung Zangbo River to the east of the eastern Himalayas for Namjagbarwa. The Himalayas at 6,000 meters above sea level on average over the peak forest, over 7,000 meters peaks have more than 50, 8000 meters above the summit are 16, the first in the world stands at the peak of Mount Everest on China and Nepal border. Everest in the surrounding area over 5,000 square kilometers, 8,000 meters above the peak 4, 7000 meters above the peak 38, the peak of the pool only by the phenomenon of the world, it was a "roof of the world." Among the many rivers in the Himalayas erosion and cutting, the formation of many of the several thousand meters deep gorge channel, Tibet and surrounding areas as trade and cultural exchanges between the shortcut.



Peak nival, Yuanwang hanging glaciers, silver-tall, one faction holy scene. At the foot of Mount Qomolangma many large-scale development of modern glaciers, Bingdou, Kok Fung, knife ridge landscape of glaciers, and other widely distributed; snow line Bingta Lin Li, a relatively high degree of up to 40-50 meters, which mixed with deep the ice cave, Twists and turns of the ice streams, spectacular scenery very strange.

Himalayan mountain range south of the steep, north slope of more gentle. South slope above the Ganges, Indus plains 6000-7000 metres, constitute a great natural barrier. As the southern slope facing the Indian Ocean southwest monsoon, rainfall is abundant, lush forest. And the northern Himalayas, and the gentle slope of the South Valley phase grounding, to farmers Yimu, a Tibetan people's lives to gather.

Here the highest in the world built a temple Rong Busi. Cisi in 1899 by the Red Ngawang Tenzin Norbu, a lama. Rong Busi Everest is the best location to watch; two straight line distance of 25 km.

The four 8,000 m above a line of snow-capped mountains, it was spectacular, four snow-capped mountains from left to right are: Makalu, 8,463 meters; Lhotse, the 8,516 meters, Mount Everest, 8,848 meters; Zhuoao Friends Peak, 8,201 meters.

Click to view: the southern slope of Mount Everest topographic map

1, traffic: Everest from Nepal in the road about 100 km south of the border line. From Xigaze, Lazi Bianche to find new Tingri is not very difficult, but the remaining 100 km to the base camp, will get the opportunity to Bianche very low, it is proposed to the charter from Lhasa is the most secure.

Before leaving New Tingri Tingri junctions in the new hostels for Jin Shan procedures: access to the wheels of the vehicle subject to payment of the amount of highway construction costs, the wheels 100 yuan each other, each tourist has to pay 65 yuan for Tickets. Nepal along the highway 11 km walk, see Everest protected areas and signs left turn from this to bid farewell to the asphalt road, you have to the future of the road are psychologically prepared for the worst degree.

2, room and board: Mount Qomolangma base camp near the only place that can stay at the Rong Busi, 25 yuan per person per bed, in this accommodation, easy-to-see mountain scenery sooner or later. Rong Busi entrance of a Tibetan young man opened a small restaurant, filled the entrance of the beer bottles. Bosses do not speak Chinese, but you can order food and bargain in English. The flavor of vegetables in general, but the price of your qi, taking into account all are distant from the Xigaze, which broke up in the transport, can also understand.

In fact, Rong Busi and the Mount Qomolangma base camp there are about eight kilometers away, with their own camping equipment, and can also lived in Mount Qomolangma base camp inside the need to bring their own stoves for rice. Climbing season, a stronghold of the Tibetan Mountaineering Association liaison officer stationed here, then can buy the hands of a small number of liaison officers from the food and drinking water, but expensive, about three times than your Lhasa. Beer to 10 yuan / listen.

     Jin Everest before the end of a relatively good local conditions is the Everest Hotel in New Tingri, can take a bath, toilet with the standard cost 330 yuan / room. But behind the main building of a very cheap price of the building, no toilet, but very clean, as long as the price of 30 yuan / person, can also counter to 20 yuan.

Click to view: Mount Everest map

3, tickets: enter the Mount Qomolangma Nature Reserve, with the price of foreign guests within 65 yuan / person. Into the Mount Qomolangma area of the wheel of the number of cars subject to payment of highway construction costs, said 100 yuan each wheel. That is to say off-road vehicles to 400 yuan, 600 yuan to truck. In addition, each of tourists have to pay 65 yuan for the area of environmental protection costs.

4, a tip: From Everest, climbers near the checkpoint. Search procedures came into the mountains, they release Zhizou. After 40 kilometers to reach a small village called Tashi cases, there is almost no 2,3-vegetables small restaurants, things that can eat makeshift. To continue to walk about 30 kilometers Fanyue Yamaguchi pull the wrong time can see that four of the snow-capped mountains 8,000 meters above the line a spectacular scene, from here go over 20 kilometers down the mountain to reach the Everest base camp.

5, Attention: access to Mount Qomolangma, the need for border card, in Lhasa or Lazi for the county. But Rush is trouble in Tibet, before the travel account in the best location within. Rush to fill in at the location, wrote to Tingri Everest region.

6, hiking time: the best climate from April to June each year is climbing the golden season.