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It is a webcam located on Kala Patthar, a mountain in Nepal located in front of Everest, in the Himalayas Himalaya, at an elevation of 5,675 metres (18,619 ft).The webcam capture video footage of the summit of Mount Everest and is the highest webcam in the world. [1]
The closest sea to Mount Everest's summit is the Bay of Bengal, almost 700 km (430 mi) away. To approximate a climb of the entire height of Mount Everest, one would need to start from this coastline, a feat accomplished by Tim Macartney-Snape's team in 1990. Climbers usually begin their ascent from base camps above 5,000 m (16,404 ft).
The ascent of Kala Patthar begins at Gorakshep (5,163 m or 16,939 ft), the original base camp for Mt. Everest. After a brief dip to an ancient lake bed (which now contains a small lake and a helipad), the ascent makes its way up a series of steep switchbacks before levelling off somewhat as it traverses to the eastern side of the mountain.
Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is actually still growing. While it and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing an inexorable uplift ...
The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead ...
Anyone who has even loosely followed events on Mt. Everest in recent years is probably familiar with the terrifying "conga line” photos of climbers stuck in the world’s highest traffic jam.
Another two days takes them to Everest Base Camp via Gorakshep, the flat field below Kala Patthar, 5,545 metres (18,192 ft) and Mt. Pumori. On 25 April 2015, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale , struck Nepal and triggered an avalanche on Pumori that swept through the South Base Camp. [ 6 ]
The 2006 Philippine Mount Everest expedition is a Filipino mountaineering ... Base Camp with a broadcast team to report live via satellite on the climbers ...