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Glacier on Makalu Makalu Makalu 3D. 1955 North Face to Northeast Ridge FA by Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy of France. [6] 1970: Southeast Ridge FA of ridge attempted by the Americans in 1954, [7] was made by Y. Ozaki and A. Tanaka from Japan on May 23. [8] 1971: The very technical West Pillar route was climbed in May by Frenchmen B. Mellet and Y ...
Makalu Barun National Park is a national park in the Himalayas of Nepal that was established in 1992 as the eastern extension of Sagarmatha National Park.It is the world's only protected area with an elevation gain of more than 8,000 m (26,000 ft) enclosing tropical forest as well as snow-capped peaks.
At 8,485 metres (27,838 ft) Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain in the world and an eight-thousander. [web 1] Chomo Lonzo (7,804 metres (25,604 ft) [web 2]), is on a ridge northeast of Kangchungtse and due north of Makalu. [1] Makalu is generally in the shape of a four-sided pyramid with its faces scooped out in vast cirques. Of its four ...
Gau Ming-Ho (Chinese: 高銘和; pinyin: Gāo Mínghé; born 1949), also known as Makalu Gau after the 5th highest peak in the world, is a Taiwanese mountaineer. He was a leader of a Taiwanese expedition to Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
South-western vantage of the Makalu summit. Makalu is the world's fifth-highest mountain at 8,481 meters (27,825 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest on the China–Nepal border. As of December 2024, there had been 800 successful summits of Makalu and 50 deaths on the ...
Chomo Lonzo (Chinese: 珠穆隆索峰; pinyin: Zhūmùlóngsuǒ Fēng) is a mountain in Tibet, 5 km northeast of Makalu in the Mahalungur (Mohalingor) or Khumbu Himalayas. Alternate spellings of the same name include Chomolonzo, Chomolönzo, Chomo Lönzo, Jomolönzo, and Lhamalangcho.
Solitaire: Pyramid Challenge. Play five solitaire hands in a row to see how you rank. By Masque Publishing
Makalu is a village development committee near the mountain of the same name, located in Sankhuwasabha District in the Koshi Zone of north-eastern Nepal.At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,560 people living in 694 individual households.