Word: khumbu
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...eastward end of the Cwm is sealed by the South Col, a 25,850 ft. ridge that joins Everest to Lhotse. Westward, the Cwm falls away in a giant ice fall that leaps precipitously down 4,000 ft. Beyond, at the foot of Nuptse, is the Khumbu glacier, the only known entrance...
From Thyangboche camp, the climbers skirted Nuptse and pitched Camp I on the scree of Khumbu. All around were towers of ice that rumbled by day and creaked and moved by night. Above was the great ice fall, savage and unstill...
Tenzing, who at the age of ten was herding Tibetan yaks above 20,000 ft., was riled at his leader's remark. Egged on by Nepalese hotheads (including Communists), he was induced to sign a statement, which he could not read, saying: "I practically directed operations from Khumbu Glacier...