Mount Everest Attractions
Appreciating Mount Everest from Tibet, China, the covered snow at the top of peak just like a magnificent pyramid and the terrain is steep and precipitous. While the scenery in Nepal is crushing so that if you can't appreciate Mount Everest in Tibet, it will be a great pity. There are many attractions as follows:
- There are 15 glaciers with an area of more than 10 square kilometers. Among them, the largest Rongbuk Glacier is 26 kilometers long and the average thickness is 120 meters. Numerous glaciers are entrenched in valleys like jade dragons. Serac, icy bridge and ice towers can be found everywhere.
- Everest Base Camp: Everest Base Camp is built to protect the environment of the core zone of Mount Everest, which is located at the altitude of 5,200 meters and 19 kilometers away from the top. The buses should stop at Rongbuk Monastery and tourists have to transfer carriage of hiking 7 kilometers to arrive at the base camp. There are tents served for mountaineers and tourists, hostels, tea houses, shops and post office.
- Lhotse Mountain: the fourth highest peak in the world at the altitude of 8,516 meters and located in the south of Mount Everest. In May 18, 1956, Swiss mountaineering team succeeded in reaching the top from the west ridge in Nepal while nobody did so from the east ridge in China up to now.
- Cho Oyu Mountain: the sixth highest peak in the world at the altitude of 8,201 meters and located in the northwest of Mount Everest. There are mainly five ridges in Cho Oyu Mountain: northwest ridge, northeast ridge, southwest ridge, southeast ridge and west ridge.
- Makalu Mountain: the fifth highest peak in the world at the altitude of 8,463 meters and located in the southeast of Mount Everest. Heavy ice and snow are covered and escarpment and crevice of large glacier are common so that glacier avalanche happens frequently.
- Rongbuk Monastery: Built in 1901, Rongbuk Monastery is the highest monastery in the world and located on the foot of Mount Everest. And many mountaineers consider Rongbuk Monastery as the best place to appreciate Mount Everest.
