The Kangshung Face or East Face is the eastern-facing side of Mount Everest, one of the Tibetan sides of the mountain. It is 3,350 metres from its base on the Kangshung Glacier to the summit. It is a
Kangshung Face as seen from orbit
2021 photo of Kangshung Face
To the right is the top of the east Kangshung face. To the left is the top of the South-West face and the Hillary Step in between along the ridge-line.
The Hillary Step was a 40-foot vertical rock face that sat 8,790 metres above sea level on the southeast ridge of Mount Everest. Some 30 metres vertically below the mountain's 8,849-metre summit, it l
Kangshung Face
…Kangshung cliff Ascending the Kangshung Face To the right is the top of the east Kangshung face. To the left is the top of the South-West face and the Hillary Step in between along the ridge-line. To climb the face, the 3 kilometer (2 mi) wide base of the wall must be surpassed by climbing up either the deep gashes…
In this pre-2015 view of Mount Everest seen from the west, the high point is the summit; to its the right, the southeast ridge slopes down to the Hillary Step, then rises up to the South Summit.