Lhakpa La
| Lhakpa La | |||||
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| Compass direction | west | east | |||
| Pass height | 6766 m | ||||
| region | Tibet , People's Republic of China | ||||
| Watershed | Eastern Rongpu Glacier → Rongpu Glacier → Chaggar Chu | Khartagletscher → Kharta Chu | |||
| expansion | alpine transition | ||||
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| Coordinates | 28 ° 2 '28 " N , 86 ° 57' 51" E | ||||
Lhakpa La ( La = "pass") is the name of a mountain pass in Tibet .
It describes the 6766 m or 6966 m high transition from the Kharta Glacier to the Eastern Rongpu Glacier , from which George Mallory and Guy Bullock discovered the access to the north route on Mount Everest as part of the British exploration expedition in 1921 . They referred to it as the Windy Gap and then translated the name into Tibetan. It is not suitable as a traffic route due to its steepness.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric Shipton: Men against Everest. o. O. 1955, p. 31. (Available at www.archive.org )
- ↑ Stephen Venables: Everest. The story of its discovery. Munich 2007, p. 81.