Cho Oyu

English

Etymology

From Nepali चोयु (coyu).

Pronunciation

• enPR: chōʹ ōyo͞oʹ

Proper noun

Cho Oyu

1. A mountain in the Himalayas on the border between Solukhumbu district, Koshi, Nepal and Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the world’s sixth highest mountain.
   • 1922, E. O. Wheeler, “Appendix II: The Photographic Survey”, in Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921‎^[1], Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 332:

     I had a good view of the glacier from here : the East side is very steep and broken, with several tributary glaciers flowing down from Cho Oyu and Pk. 25,909, and from a 23,000-foot Peak (not triangulated) to the North of the latter.

   • 1957 [1955], Herbert Tichy, “Turquoise Goddess”, in Basil Creighton, transl., Cho Oyu: Gnade der Götter by Ullstein Verlag [Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods]‎^[2], London: Methuen & Co, →OCLC, page 14:

     This may seem a strange and unprofessional way of beginning the story of the ascent of a 26,000-foot mountain, but it was not just the wish to conquer a high peak that turned our thoughts to Cho Oyu; it was the longing for the boundless peace of evening such as these.
     "Next year, Cho Oyu?" Pasang asked.
     "Cho Oyu," I agreed.
     Adjiba brought the fried liver of the goat.
     "We go for Cho Oyu," Pasang told him.
     "Aha," Adjiba said, cutting a cucumber into thin slices.
     That's how we decided to attack the seventh highest mountain in the world.

   • 2006 August, Michael Buckley, Tibet (Bradt Travel Guides)‎^[3], 2nd edition, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 200:

     Tingri lies at the edge of a vast plain. There are great views of the Himalayan giants to the south, assuming there's no cloud cover. Everest, or the uppermost part of it, is visible to the far left, but from this distance it doesn't look like a mammoth. However, Cho Oyu, straight ahead, looks stunning. It's worth taking a short hike to the south of Tingri for better views; another viewpoint is from the top of the hill above the village, where there are some old fort ruins.

   • 2017 November 12, “Russian base jumper dies in Nepal's Everest region”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on 12 November 2017:

     Rozov set a new world record in 2013 for the highest-ever base jump when he leapt from Changstse, a peak in the Everest massif towering at 7,220 metres in a specially-designed wingsuit.
     He broke his own record three years later by jumping from a height of 7,700 metres on Mount Cho Oyu.

   • 2022 January 28, “Nepali team to explore 1st commercial route to Mt. Cho Oyu from southern side”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News‎^[5], archived from the original on 28 January 2022:

     A team of Nepali mountaineers has set out for Mt. Cho Oyu with a view to opening the first commercial route to the top of the world's sixth tallest peak from the Nepali side, officials and mountaineering agencies said.
     "A team led by veteran Gelje Sherpa set out for Mt. Cho Oyu on Wednesday," Mingma Devid Sherpa, founder of the Elite Exped which is one of the sponsors of the expedition, told Xinhua.[...]
     "Because of the low success rate from the Nepali side, we have failed to commercialize our existing routes," said Santa Bir Lama, president of Nepal Mountaineering Association. "The team is aiming to find the easiest way to Mt. Cho Oyu from the Nepal side."

   • 2023 February 19, David Gardner, “A Race Up the World’s Tallest Mountains, and for Gender Equality”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 February 2023, Sports‎^[7]:

     When approached from the Tibet side, Cho Oyu is the safest of the 14 peaks. But Harila and her team had been forced to attempt it from the Nepal side because their visas and permits to enter Tibet had never been approved by the Chinese government. And even if they did accomplish this groundbreaking ascension of Cho Oyu, they would have no way to access the mission’s final peak as the Shishapangma mountain is entirely within Tibet.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cho Oyu.

Translations

mountain

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卓奧友／卓奥友

• Nepali: चोयु (coyu)
• Tibetan: ཇོ་བོ་དབུ་ཡ (jo bo dbu ya)

Further reading

• Cho Oyu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Cho Oyu”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Cho Oyu”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Cho Oyu” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Cho Oyu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 404, column 3
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Cho Oyu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 792, column 3