Lhotse
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English
Etymology
From Tibetan ལྷོ་རྩེ (lho rtse).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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, 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.
- 2017 April 30, Gopal Sharma, “Swiss climber falls to death, preparing for Mount Everest ascent”, in Sam Holmes, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 30 April 2017, World News:
- 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, archived from the original on December 02, 2020:
- 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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Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lhotse”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1048, column 3
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lhotse”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1728, column 2
- “Lhotse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.