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Khumbu Icefall. The Khumbu Icefall is located at the head of the Khumbu Glacier and the foot of the Western Cwm.It lies at an elevation of 5,486 metres (17,999 ft) on the Nepali slopes of Mount Everest, not far above Base Camp and southwest of the summit.
Chandragiri Hill, located 16 kilometers from Kathmandu, offers breathtaking panoramic views of the Kathmandu Valley and the majestic Himalayan range, including peaks like Annapurna and Everest. Standing at 8,268 feet, the hill is a serene escape into nature, enriched by the historical significance of the Baleshwar Temple at its summit.
Eastern Nepal gets about 2,500 mm (100 in) annually; the Kathmandu area about 1,400 mm (55 in) and western Nepal about 1,000 mm (40 in). This pattern is modified by adiabatic effects as rising air masses cool and drop their moisture content on windward slopes, then warm up as they descend so relative humidity drops.
Kathmandu, [a] officially the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, [b] is the seat of federal government and the most populous city in Nepal.As of the 2021 Nepal census, [3] there were 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households and approximately 4 million people in its surrounding agglomeration.
The short flight from Kathmandu to Lukla offers the first true sense of the expedition’s scale. ... the 527m landing strip slopes steeply down the side of a cliff and marks the gateway to the ...
The Airbus A310 was on approach to Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. All 113 people on board were killed. [6] In April 2015, the village of Langtang located within the park was destroyed by an avalanche of ice, rock and mud triggered by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. At least 215 people were killed.
The 1951 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition ran between 27 August 1951 and 21 November 1951 with Eric Shipton as leader.. The expedition reconnoitred various possible routes for climbing Mount Everest from Nepal concluding that the one via the Khumbu Icefall, Western Cwm and South Col was the only feasible choice.
Lele is a village development committee in Lalitpur District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal.At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 6928 living in 1245 individual households, but the population has increased greatly since then.