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1926, Francis Younghusband, The Epic of Mount Everest‎, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 65:
The way to reach the summit was therefore now getting very much clearer. The North-East Ridge could be reached by the edge of the North Face from the North Col. From the North Col to the summit the way was clear.
1988 April 17, Liz Nichol, “EVEREST IS CHALLENGING_WITHIN LIMITS”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 April 2023‎:
Once I'd established a balance and rhythm to skiing and breathing, I switched off the headlamp. Suddenly my world expanded from a small swath of lit snow to the immense darkness of the place. The tongue of the glacier I was climbing led up toward the North Col, 3,000 feet above me. To my right the great wall of the North Face rose 9,000 feet. On the left, Changtse loomed 5,000 feet high.
1998, Jim Wickwire, Dorothy Bullitt, Addicted to Danger: A Memoir‎, Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 193:
With the help of yaks, the team set up an advanced base camp at twenty-one thousand feet, below the North Col, a saddle between Everest and Changtse, its satellite peak to the north.
2003, Jon E. Lewis, editor, The Mammoth Book of How it Happened Everest‎, London: Constable & Robinson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page xxx:
During the course of the reconnaissance, the East Rongbuk Glacier and the North Col were discovered, which seemed to offer a promising route to Everest’s North East Ridge and thence the summit itself.
2006 July 23, Allen G. Breed, Binaj Gurubacharya, “A Climber's Highest Ambition Twice, Briton David Sharp Attempted To Conquer the World's Tallest Mountain. Then He Made His Third Try.”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 16, 2016‎:
In the first week of May, Sharp began his summit push.
He scaled the North Col, an ice cascade riddled with gaping crevasses, and established a camp at about 25,920 feet, where tents often must be pitched at 45-degree angles. But when he awoke on the third morning, it was snowing and extremely windy, and Sharp decided to abandon the attempt.
2010 July 28, Caroline Brothers, “Afghan Climber Aims for Top of Everest”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 25 May 2011, Mountain Climbing‎:
Sirat, who hopes to climb with the Sherpa mountaineer Ming Temba, whom he met in Nepal, will reach the advance base camp with the help of yaks, and will tackle the North Col with four other mountaineers and their Sherpas.
2011, Wade Davis, “Preface”, in Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest‎, The Bodley Head, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page xiii:
Norton knew the cruel face of the mountain. From the North Col, the route to the summit follows the North Ridge, which rises dramatically in several thousand feet to fuse with the Northeast Ridge, which, in turn, leads to the peak.
2019 May 25, “Deaths of British, Irish climbers add to Everest toll”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 25 May 2019‎:
On the northern Tibet side of the mountain, a 56-year-old Irish man died Friday morning, his expedition organisers confirmed in a statement on their Facebook page.
The man decided to return without reaching the summit but died in his tent at the North Col pass at 7,000 metres (22,965 feet).
2020 July 8, “Our team climbed Everest to try to solve its greatest mystery”, in National Geographic‎, archived from the original on 07 September 2022, Adventure‎:
To make camps more comfortable for clients, Sherpas and other support climbers carry bedding and foam pads up the steep slope to the North Col. Everything from tents and oxygen bottles to stoves, food, and fuel must be carried above Advanced Base Camp.

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