North Col

English

North Col (between Mount Everest and Changtse)

Etymology

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Proper noun

North Col

1. a col north of Mount Everest. [from 20th c.]
   • 1926, Francis Younghusband, The Epic of Mount Everest‎^[1], 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^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 April 2023‎^[3]:

     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^[4], 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^[5], 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.

   • 2011, Wade Davis, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest‎^[6], 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:North Col.

Related terms

• South Col

Translations

col

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 北坳 (Běi'ào)

Anagrams

• Chorlton