Khumbutse
Sign in to saveKhumbutse (; ; ) is the first mountain west (6 km) of Mount Everest. It lies at the border between Nepal and China.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Khumbutse
- Mountain.photo
- File:Khumbutse.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Khumbutse
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 6636
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 515
- Mountain.map
- Nepal Province1#Nepal#China Tibet
- Mountain.label_position
- left
- Mountain.location
- Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha Zone, NepalTingri County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
- Mountain.range
- Mahalangur Himal, Himalayas
- Mountain.mapframe
- yes
- Mountain.mapframe wikidata
- yes
- Mountain.mapframe zoom
- 14
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 1979 by Franček Knez
- Mountain.easiest_route
- glacier/snow/ice
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Sagarmatha Zone
- Elevation
- 6636
- Image
- Pumori-Langtren-Khumbutse.jpg
- Significant event
- first ascent
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- topographic prominence
- 460
- Commons category
- Khumbutse
- located in protected area
- Sagarmatha National Park
- mountain range
- Mahalangur Himal
- title
- ཁུམ་བུ།་རྩེ
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Khumbutse (; ; ) is the first mountain west (6 km) of Mount Everest. It lies at the border between Nepal and China.
==Overview== Khumbutse's name indicates its location at the head of the Khumbu valley, down which the Khumbu Glacier flows. It is one of the prominent mountains above the southern Everest Base Camp, and is seen in many views from the nearby trekking routes, including at Gorak Shep.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khumbutse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.