Everest West Ridge Route Map

The team used this route in the winter for training. In this last section of the climb, the view opens up with cho oyu, gyachung kang, pumori, everest, lotse, makalu, ama dablam and many other peaks surrounding you. Roughly two weeks after whittaker's achievement, tom hornbein and willi unsoeld, fellow american mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding west ridge—a route.

The west ridge, anniversary edition 288. 181 pp., 1 fig., 15 coloured pls. In this last section of the climb, the view opens up with cho oyu, gyachung kang, pumori, everest, lotse, makalu, ama dablam and many other peaks surrounding you.

Standard route from north, mainly identical with mallory's route in 1924;

It is the fairytale summit that we all dream about. The team used this route in the winter for training. Maps of everest routes and deaths. For their ascent, they started from the c2 of the southern route over the khumbu glacier.