Lhotse
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Tibetan ལྷོ་རྩེ (lho rtse).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Lhotse
- A Himalayan mountain on the border between Nepal and China, the fourth highest in the world.
- 1922, C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921[1], Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 116:
- Mount Everest was only 3 or 4 miles away from us. From it to the South-east swept a huge amphitheatre of mighty peaks culminating in a new and unsurveyed peak, 28,100 feet in height, to which we gave the name of Lhotse, which in Tibetan means the South Peak.
- 1956 June 11, “Triple Play”, in Newsweek, volume XLVII, number 24, Weekly Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, International, page 58:
- These Swiss mountaineers, led by Albert Eggler (third from left), reported from Nepal last week that they had not only conquered Lhotse, at 28,100 feet the world's highest hitherto unclimbed peak, but twice climbed its 29,002-foot twin. Mount Everest, previously scaled only by Sir Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, in 1953.
- 2017 April 30, Gopal Sharma, “Swiss climber falls to death, preparing for Mount Everest ascent”, in Sam Holmes, editor, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 30 April 2017, World News[3]:
- Steck was in the area acclimatizing ahead of a bid to climb Everest through the less-climbed West Ridge route and traverse to Lhotse, the world's fourth highest peak - at 8,516 meters (27,940 feet) in May.
- 2018 October 4, Jim Morrison, quotee, “Nelson and Morrison succeed historic ski descent from Lhotse”, in Deutsche Welle[4], archived from the original on December 02, 2020[5]:
- On the 8516-meter-high Lhotse, the fourth highest of all mountains, the two Americans skied down the so-called “Dream Line”: from the summit through the narrow, 45 to 50 degrees steep Lhotse Couloir down to Camp 2 in the Western Qwm at 6,400 meters. “We did it,” Jim writes about a photo of his ski tips that he posted on Instagram today: “Ski tips about to make the first turn ever off the summit of Lhotse. Almost 28,000’ the summit was sugar snow and extra steep. A few careful turns and a hop got me into the couloir to complete a dream I’ve been working towards for a lifetime.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lhotse.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lhotse”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1048, column 3
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lhotse”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1728, column 2
- “Lhotse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.