Chomolungma 

5 creative works found

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  "Because it is there"
  by Doug Thost

  “What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.” / / George Mallory / / Panorama of the Mount Everest massif from Kala Patthar, Nepal Himalaya / / The impressive mountain peaks of Nuptse (right) and Everest (right of centre). The Khumbu icefall spills from a 300m wide break between the mountain spurs. Everest Base Camp lies at its foot.

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  Roof of the World, Mt Everest
  by Philip Alexander

  Mt Everest (Sagarmatha, Chomolungma) as seen from the summit of Gokyo Ri.

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  Khumbu Skyline
  by Laurette Ruys

  This was the culmination of my trek in 07. Having succumbed to one of the worst headaches ever on my previous day’s attempt at climbing Kala Pathar, I had the choice of going to base camp or climbing Kala Pathar 5550m. Naturally I chose the highest point and also one of the best views from which to ogle at the beauty of Mt Everest. These are three images merged in Photoshop. From the top of Kalar Pathar, the towering face of Pumo Ri 7165m is the closest peak on the left. Across the valley is Lingtren, Khumbutse, Changtse and then in all her might and glory, Mt Everest aka Chomolungma 8850m and her sister Nuptse 7861m. (Naturally Nuptse looks taller because she is closer) The Khumbu Glacier falls down the Western Cwm and is joined further down the valley by the Changri Shar and Changri Nup Glaciers on the right of the photo. Everest base camp is just above the point on the black ridge behind the glacial lake.

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  Goddess Mother of the Snows
  by Roantrum

  The translation of the Tibetan name for the mountain we more prosaically know as Everest.

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  Everest - The Ultimate Challenge
  by jacqi

  Mount Everest, peak, 29,035 ft (8,850 m) high, on the border of Tibet and Nepal, in the central Himalayas is the highest elevation in the world. Called Chomolungma or Qomolangma [Mother Goddess of the Land] by Tibetans and Sagarmatha [head of the sea] by Nepalis, it is named in English for the surveyor Sir George Everest. It was first climbed on May 28, 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal reached the summit. The body of George H. L. Mallory, who died in an earlier attempt in 1924, was found on the mountain in 1999 and it will never be known whether or not he reached the summit and died on the way down photographed 02-11-2009 on the Buddha Air flight along the Himalaya range / /