From the camp you look directly up the North Col, but what really dominates the view from ABC is the Northeast shoulder of Everest with its famous Pinnacles. From the ABC Camp at 21,300 feet ...
The North Col (Col is a Welsh word, which means saddle) is the low point of one of the three great ridges that emanate from the summit of Mount Everest. In this case the North Ridge drops ...
or The North Col route, starting from Tibet. Mt. Everest was first summited by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 via The South Col route. Since their historic accomplishment ...
While there are many discovered and named climbing routes on Everest, two routes are most commonly climbed: The South Col route starting from Nepal, and the Northeast Ridge Standard, or The North ...
He reached the top of the North Col route on 16 May and the summit of Everest on 5 June. Miss NJP tweeted: "What an amazing achievement and a wonderful moment for @IanToothill. Feeling emotional.
On 23 May the Frenchman Marco Siffredi, snowboarded down the Norton Couloir on the 8850m North Face of Everest, 8850m The Frenchman Marco Siffredi ... At 8600m he was forced to fix his binding, but he ...