Word: chyanjma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divided up the baggage into 50-lb. packs and struck out, in two caravans, toward the valley of the Sun Kosi. The track lay through rhododendrons, oak trees and patches of fern; then the country roughened, and three great ridges rose before them. From the first, Chyanjma-la. the leaders looked north and saw Everest face-to-face-a hunchbacked Atlas with the sky of Tibet on his back. At last they entered the valley that drains Everest itself...
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