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2. 1960 Chinese Mount Everest expedition - Wikipedia

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   In 1957, six mountaineers, including Shi Zhanchun and Liu Lianman, set a Chinese mountaineering record by summitting Minya Konka. The same year, the Soviet Union proposed a joint Mount Everest expedition to China. The expedition was scheduled for May 1959, but was postponed to 1960 due to the 1959 Tibetan uprising.

3. List of Mount Everest expeditions - Wikipedia

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   The early slowness of expedition frequency reflected the many difficulties of mounting one at that time, which included expense, travel by conventional means from distant Europe, language and culture barriers, the need to hire large numbers of native porters, access to the mountains (including permission of respective governments), extremely limited communications, and, simply, the unknown, as ...

4. Expedition climbing - Wikipedia

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   Expedition climbing (or expedition-style or pejoratively siege climbing), [1] [2] is a type of mountaineering that uses a series of well-stocked camps on the mountain leading to the summit (e.g. Base Camp, Camp 1, Camp 2, etc.), that are supplied by teams of mountain porters. [2]

5. Tibet Himalaya Mountaineering Guide School - Wikipedia

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   The Tibet Himalaya Mountaineering Guide School (also known as Lhasa Himalaya Mountaineering Guide School and Tibet Mountaineering School, Chinese: 西藏登山学校) is a mountaineering school, located in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

6. Mount Gongga - Wikipedia

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   Mount Gongga Northwest Ridge Orthographic projection centred over Gongga Shan. Mount Gongga (simplified Chinese: 贡嘎山; traditional Chinese: 貢嘎山; pinyin: Gònggá Shān), also known as Minya Konka (Khams Tibetan: མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ་, Khams Tibetan pinyin: Mi'nyâg Gong'ga Riwo) and colloquially as "The King of Sichuan Mountains", is the ...

7. Coronavirus: China shuts down Everest spring expeditions - AOL

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   Chinese mountaineering officials will not allow spring climbs from their side of the mountain due to coronavirus outbreak fears. Coronavirus: China shuts down Everest spring expeditions Skip to ...