Sponsored by Microsoft
Internet Explorer
EXPLORE
 Poster Store 
[Everest Posters] Images from the Everest trek and climb. The Bookstore Click on a book for details and ordering info from The Mountain Zone Bookstore.
|
|
CAMP I PHOTOS Click on a small photo to see the larger image.
|
|
Camp I -- Western Cwm 19,500' As climbers crest the final steep edge of the Ice Fall, the landscape suddenly smoothes, and they emerge into the expanse of the Westen Cwm (koom). Here they get their first close view of Everest (not visible from Base Camp). The massive Southwest face of Everest is on the left, the South Col dips into Lhotse at the end of the valley, and Nuptse runs along the right. Though it appears flat by comparison to the steep and chaotic Ice Fall, the Cwm is heavily crevassed and has a gradient of almost one in four. Cwm is the Welsh word for "cirque," and the Western Cwm which runs two miles long and about a half mile wide (encircled by Everest, Lhotse, and Nuptse) was named in 1921 by George Mallory on the first reconnaissance of the area.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Photos by Todd Burleson/Alpine Ascents International. [PHOTO GALLERY Index] |
|||||||||
1997 Everest Expedition with
Alpine Ascents International, Inc.
[Click for more info]
Click here to start.
© The Zone Network, Inc. 1997. All rights reserved.
No portion of the text or images on this page may be reproduced
without the express written consent of The Zone Network.