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 The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma or Qomolangma (meaning "Mother of the Universe"). According to English accounts of the mid-19th century, the local name in Darjeeling for Mount Everest was Deodungha, or "Holy Mountain.". In the 1960s, the Government of Nepal gave the mountain an official Nepali name: Sagarmatha, meaning "Head of the Sky".
In 1865, the mountain was given its English name by Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. With both Nepal and Tibet closed to foreign travel, he wrote:
I was taught by my respected chief and predecessor, Colonel Sir George Everest to assign to every geographical object its true local or native appellation. But here is a mountain, most probably the highest in the world, without any local name that we can discover, whose native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal. In the meantime the privilege as well as the duty devolves on me to assign…a name whereby it may be known among citizens and geographers and become a household word among civilized nations.
Waugh chose to name the mountain after George Everest, Mount Everest.
North east ridge Advance Base Camp
The northeast ridge route begins from the north side of Everest in Tibet. Expeditions trek to the Rongbuk Glacier, setting up Base Camp at 5,180 m (17,000 ft) on a gravel plain just below the glacier. To reach Camp II, climbers ascend the medial moraine of the east Rongbuk Glacier up to the base of Changtse at around 6,100 m (20,000 ft). Camp III (ABC - Advanced Base Camp) is situated below the North Col at 6,500 m (21,300 ft).
China is paving a 108-km (66-mile) dirt road from Tingri County to its Base Camp in order to accommodate growing numbers of climbers on their side of the mountain. It will become the highest asphalt-paved road in the world. Construction began on June 18, 2007, at a cost of 150 million yuan (US$19.7 million). China also plans on routing the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay over Everest, going up the South Col route and back down the North Col route, on the way to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Advance Base Camp With Lhasa Sight Seeing
Day 1 : Drive to Zhangmu, Tibet.
Day 2 : Acclimatize in Zhangmu.
Day 3 : Drive to Nyalam, Tibet (3,700m).
Day 4 : Acclimatize in Nyalam.
Day 5 : Drive to Tingri, Tibet (4,300m).
Day 6-7 : Acclimatization, Tingri.
Day 8 : Drive to Everest Base Camp (BC) (5,200m).
Day 9-11 : Rest / Acclimatization in BC.
Day 12 - 13 : Hike / Trek to interim camp en route to Advanced Base Camp(ABC).
Day 14-15 : To ABC (6,400m).
Day 16-18 : Set up camp at ABC.
Day 19 : Back from ABC to BC.
Day 20 : Drive to Xigatse - HTL.
Day 21 : Xigatse - Gyantse with sight seeings - HTL
Day 22 : Gyante - Lhasa - HTL.
Day 23 : Lhasa - Sight Seeing - HTL.
Day 24 : Lhasa - Sight Seeing - HTL.
Day 25 : Fly Lhasa - Kathmandu. |
