Y. Panorama from Cho Oyu: Mount Everest in outline.
View from the top of Cho Oyu (thirty-two kilometers west-northwest of Mount Everest):
1. Mount Everest/Chomo-lungma --- (summit/highest pinnacle on Earth) 8850 m
2. Kangchenjunga --- (K. Main/the third highest mountain in the world) 8586 m
3. Lhotse --- (the fourth highest mountain in the world) 8501 m
4. Makalu --- (crown/the fifth highest mountain in the world) 8463 m
5. Cho Oyu --- (the sixth highest mountain in the world) 8201 m
6. Nuptse --- 7861 m
7. South Col --- (highest pass/saddle on Earth) 7906 m
8. Southwest Ridge (a continuation of no. 14; SE Ridge is out of view)
9. South Summit --- 8751 m
10. Hillary Step and Hillary´s Chimney --- 8763–8771 m
11. SE Summit Ridge --- 8780–8850 m
12. Yellow Band --- N Face: 8250 m–SW Face: 8750 m (here shown on SW Face only)
13. Southwest Face
14. South Pillar
15. Western Buttress
16. Geneva Spur
17. Elevation 7600 m
18. Camp 3 --- 7100–7300 m (my team camped at 7130 m in May, 2005)
19. Lhotse Face and Lhotse Glacier --- around 6600 m and upwards, and around 6550–7600 m respectively
20. Western Cwm --- around 6000–6600 m
21. Lho La --- 6026 m
22. West Shoulder --- 7309 m
23. West Ridge
24. Elevation 7643 m
25. Elevation 8425 m
26. North Face
27. Great Couloir (Norton Couloir)
28. Hornbein Couloir (together with Japanese Couloir below called Supercouloir)
29. Rongbuk Glacier and elevation 6189 m (the glacier stretches to Lho La)
30. North Col --- 7010 m
31. North Ridge
32. Northeast Ridge
33. Elevation 7884 m
34. Northeast Shoulder --- 8383 m (Pinnacles I–III are to the left of NE Shoulder)
35. 1st Step --- 8501–8534 m (should be marked at around no. 36 instead)
36. Elevation 8568 m (close to Mushroom Rock)
37. 2nd Step --- 8577–8610 m
38. 3rd Step --- 8690–8720 m
39. NE Summit Ridge --- 8800–8850 m
40. Changtse --- 7583 m
41. Changtse West --- 7560 m
42. Elevation 7229 m
43. Elevation 6855 m
44. East Rongbuk Glacier (only a very small part of the glacier is visible)
45. Changtse Glacier (only a small part of the glacier is visible)
46. Elevation 7148 m
47. Changtse Chang La --- 6520 m
48. Elevation 6706 m
49. Guangming Peak --- 6533 m
50. Elevation 6280 m
51. Elevation 6269 m
52. Elevation 6486 m
53. Elevation 6535 m
54. Elevation 6398 m
55. Pass 6310 m
56. Elevation 6408 m
57. Khumbutse --- 6665 m
58. Lingtren (Lingtrentse) --- 6749 m
59. Elevation 6254 m
60. Pass 6126 m
61. Pumori Glacier (only a very small part of the glacier is visible)
62. Elevation 6374 m
63. Elevation 6576 m
64. Pumori (Pumo Ri) --- 7165 m
65. Elevation 6811 m
66. Elevation 6833 m
67. Chumbu (also known as Kanti Himal) --- 6870 m
68. Elevation 8426 m
69. Elevation 7949 m
70. Nuptse West I --- 7784 m
71. Elevation 7154 m
72. Elevation 6587 m
73. Elevation 6334 m
74. Elevation 6597 m
75. Island Peak --- 6173 m
76. Elevation 6098 m
77. Num Ri --- 6677 m
78. Num Ri La --- 6184 m
79. Cho Polu --- 6734 m
80. Peak 4 --- 6975 m
81. Jannu --- 7710 m
82. Kangchenjunga South --- 8476 m
83. Kangchenjunga Central --- 8482 m
84. Kangbachen --- 7903 m
85. North Col (of Kangchenjunga) --- 6900 m
86. Twins --- 7005 m and 7350 m respectively
87. Nepal Gap --- 6170 m
88. Nepal Peak --- 7163 m
89. Tent Peak --- 7365 m
Khumbu Icefall
is hidden behind Pumori.
nup --- west
lho --- south
chang --- north
tse, ri --- peak, summit
ling --- mountain
col, la --- pass, saddle
buttress, pillar, spur --- a ridge projecting from a mountain side
couloir --- a deep gully on a mountain side
cwm ---
valley
The National
Geographic Map of Mount Everest {scales 1:50,000
and 1:25,000},
second edition 1991; plotted by B. Washburn, et al.
Khumbu Himal, Map No. 2 {scale 1:50,000}, 1995 edition; compiled by E. Schneider.
Mount Qomolangma (Sagarmatha) {scale 1:100,000}; edited and mapped by Mi Desheng (Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology), the Xi´an Cartographic Publishing House, 1991.
Everest 50 – National Geographic {scale varies}; map produced by National Geographic Maps for National Geographic Magazine, May 2003.
To the Third Pole – The History of the High Himalaya. G.O. Dyhrenfurth with contributions by Erwin Schneider. London: Werner Laurie, 1955.
Forerunners to Everest. R. Dittert, et al. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954.
http://www.myhimalayas.com/kangchenjunga/view_from_airplane.htm (January 29, 2006).
The diagram accompanying this list is by Johan Frankelius, who also took the black-and-white photo from the summit of Cho Oyu on September 28, 2005, which was used in the making of the diagram.