On the right, great contorted cornices, overhanging masses of snow and ice, stuck out like twisted fingers over the 10,000-foot drop of the Kangshung Face. Any move on to these cornices could only bring disaster.
1957, Albert Eggler, “Perseverance”, in Hugh Merrick, transl., The Everest-Lhotse Adventure[2], Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 211:
On May 25th the weather looked very unreliable. Early in the morning ominous mists crept along the mountain sides. Müller, who stood the altitude magnificently though he had never before been above Camp III, and Luchsinger went off together on a little detour to the little bastion at the south-east rim of the Col, so as to look down the Kangshung Face and out across Tibet. The point reached by them measures 8,015 metres (26,298 feet) and we were all pleased that Müller, who had quietly gone on with his glacier measurements while we were climbing up above, had had an opportunity of reaching that high point above the 8,000-metre line to crown his visit to the glaciers of Everest.
Mr. Bonington, who was too exhausted to climb after them, eventually concluded that Mr. Boardman and Mr. Tasker must have fallen down the 10,000-foot Kangshung face, which is covered with extremely steep snow.
1995 March 7, Stuart Elliott, “THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; In the artificial world of Madison Avenue, a few campaigns dare to embrace reality in their pitches.”, in The New York Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Business[6]:
For the Vaseline Intensive Care line of lotions, he helped create a campaign centering on a 1994 expedition to climb Mount Everest; a television commercial, a newspaper coupon insert and a direct-mail brochure all hailed Sandy Hill Pittman's efforts to become the first American woman to climb the mountain's Kangshung Face.
2015 February 14, “Kaltenbrunner: “All Everest parties around one table!””, in Deutsche Welle[7], archived from the original on 31 January 2023[8]:
I don’t know whether someone will go to the North Face this year. There you can find pure loneliness. In the base camp, you are only joined by snow grouses. Otherwise, it is extremely quiet, and you have the view of the North Face. You won’t meet anyone at the Kangshung Face too.
We dropped a few steps down the windward side of the ridge as we continued, hyperaware of the overhanging cornices that could so easily lure us too close to the Kangshung Face.
Unable to see, they lost their bearings in the dark. The wind edged them to the lip of a 7,000ft drop down the Kangshung Face. “One mis-step here and it was a one-way ticket to Tibet,” Fox said.
