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2 unusual facts about South Col


Bergschrund

In a different variation, on the Himalayan mountain Lhotse, (whose ascent is part of the South Col route up Mount Everest) the bergschrund topping the glacier does not lie near the top of a ridgeline, but at the bottom of a high mountain face

Samina Baig

The expedition to the summit took 48 days, the team traversed the South Col pass in eight hours, with the mountaineers reaching their goal on the sixtieth anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing's first successful conquest of Everest.



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Kazi Sherpa

Kazi's record was set on the South Col Route, without supplemental oxygen, without steroid drug assistance (Dexamethasone), and without Sherpa assistance or guide assistance.