Cho Oyu
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Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at 8,188 metres above sea level. Cho Oyu means 'Turquoise Goddess' in Tibetan. The mountain is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section o
View of Cho Oyu via Tingri
Southern and northern climbing routes as seen from the International Space Station. (The names on the photo are links to corresponding pages.)
Ascent by a team from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) on 2 October 2008
Viewing Cho Oyu, from the southwest, via mountain flight
Edmund Hillary
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, he and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount E
Cho Oyu
…Institute in preparation for the Nepal Topographic Maps put the height at 8,188 m, one remarkably similar to the 26,867 feet (8,189 m) used by Edmund Hillary in his 1955 book High Adventure. Cho Oyu was first attempted in 1952 by an expedition organised and financed by the Joint Himalayan Committee of Great…
Hillary in c. 1953
Hillary's mother Gertrude Clark, 1909
Hillary in Royal New Zealand Air Force uniform at Delta Camp, near Blenheim, New Zealand, during World War II
Portrait of Hillary, Australia, July 1953