Nuptse

Nubtse
Nubtse from Lobuche
Highest point
Elevation	7,861 m (25,791 ft)
Prominence	319 m (1,047 ft)
Listing	List of mountains in Nepal
Coordinates	27°57′59″N 86°53′24″E
Naming
Native name	ནུབ་རྩེ། नुबचे  (Sherpa)
English translation	West Peak
Geography
Nubtse Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal Nubtse Nubtse (Nepal) Nubtse Nubtse (Tibet)
Parent range	Mahalangur Himal, Himalayas
Climbing
First ascent	1961 by a British team led by Joe Walmsley
Easiest route	snow/ice climb

Nuptse
Traditional Chinese	努子峰
Simplified Chinese	努子峰
Transcriptions

Nuptse or Nubtse (Sherpa: ནུབ་རྩེ། नुबचे, Wylie: Nub rtse, Chinese: 努子峰) is a mountain in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal, in the Nepalese Himalayas. It lies two kilometres WSW of Mount Everest. Nubtse is Tibetan for "west peak", as it is the western segment of the Lhotse-Nubtse massif.

The main peak, Nubtse I, was first climbed on May 16, 1961 by Dennis Davis and Sherpa Tashi and the following day by Chris Bonington, Les Brown, James Swallow and Pemba Sherpa, members of a British expedition led by Joe Walmsley. After a long hiatus, Nubtse again became the objective of high-standard mountaineers in the 1990s and 2000s, with important routes being put up on its west, south, and north faces.

While Nubtse is a dramatic peak when viewed from the south or west, and it towers above the base camp for the standard south col route on Everest, it is not a particularly independent peak: its topographic prominence is only 319 m (1,047 ft). Hence it is not ranked on the list of highest mountains.

Views

Southern and northern climbing routes as seen from the International Space Station. (The names on the photo are links to corresponding pages.)

Nubtse from Chukhung Ri

Nubtse on the right, Everest to the left

External links

• Nuptse on Summitpost
• Nuptse on Peakware - photos
• Günther Seifferth, Nuptse at himalaya-info.org.