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Lhotse

Lhotse is the fourth-highest mountain on Earth, after , , and . At an elevation of 8,516 metres above sea level, the main summit is on the border between the of and the region of .
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Photo: Jamieo, Public domain.
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 8,516 metres
  • Description: mountain in Nepal
  • Also known as: “E1”, “Khumbu Lhotse”, “Lho Tse”, “Lhotse I”, “Lo-tzu”, and “South Peak”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lhotse Middle I and South Col.

Peak
Photo: Uwe Gille, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lhotse Middle, is a subsidiary peak of 8,410 metres in elevation that sits in the middle of a ridge between its parent peak, the eight-thousander, Lhotse 8,516 metres, and another subsidiary peak, 8,383 metres.

Mountain saddle
Photo: Argenberg, CC BY 4.0.
The is a col between and Lhotse, the highest and fourth-highest mountains in the world, respectively. The is typically swept by high winds, leaving it free of significant snow accumulation.

Peak
Photo: Jamieo, Public domain.
is a subsidiary mountain of Lhotse, at 8,383 m high. It was first climbed by Sepp Mayerl and Rolf Walter on 12 May 1970.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hillary Step and Khumbu Icefall.

Locality
Photo: Debasish biswas kolkata, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The was a 40-foot vertical rock face that sat 8,790 metres above sea level on the southeast ridge of . Located halfway between the "South Summit" and the true summit, the was the most technically difficult part of the typical Nepal-side Everest climb and the last real challenge before reaching the top of the mountain.

Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is located at the head of the and the foot of the Western Cwm. It lies at an elevation of 5,486 metres on the Nepali slopes of , not far above Base Camp and southwest of the summit. is situated 8 km northwest of Lhotse.

Photo: DARIO SEVERI, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small village in with a fabulous variety of additional spellings such as Chuukung and Chukhung. It is located at 4,730 metres above sea level.

Lhotse

Latitude
27.96199° or 27° 57′ 43″ north
Longitude
86.93251° or 86° 55′ 57″ east
Elevation
8,516 metres (27,940 feet)
Open location code
7MV8XW6M+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 335376854
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
1283128
Wiki­data ID
Q168702
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Satellite Map

Discover Lhotse from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lhotse” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lhotse”
  • Arabic: “جبل وستو”
  • Aragonese: “Lhotse”
  • Armenian: “Լհոցե”
  • Asturian: “Lhotse”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lhotze”
  • Basque: “Lhotse”
  • Belarusian: “Лходзэ”
  • Belarusian: “Лхоцзэ”
  • Bengali: “ल्होत्स”
  • Bengali: “লোৎসে”
  • Bengali: “洛子峰”
  • Bhojpuri: “ल्होत्से”
  • Bosnian: “Lhotse”
  • Breton: “Lhotse”
  • Bulgarian: “Лхотце”
  • Bulgarian: “Лхоце”
  • Catalan: “Lhotse”
  • Cebuano: “Lo-tzu Feng”
  • Chinese: “Luòzǐ Fēng”
  • Chinese: “洛子峰”
  • Croatian: “Lhotse”
  • Czech: “Lhoce”
  • Czech: “Lhotse”
  • Danish: “Lhotse”
  • Dotyali: “ल्होत्से हिमाल”
  • Dutch: “Lhotse”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل وستو”
  • Esperanto: “Lhotse”
  • Esperanto: “Lhoze”
  • Estonian: “Lhotse”
  • Finnish: “Lhotse”
  • Finnish: “Lhozê”
  • Finnish: “Luòzǐ Fēng”
  • French: “Lhotse central II”
  • French: “Lhotse”
  • Galician: “Lhotse”
  • Georgian: “ლჰოცზე”
  • Georgian: “ლჰოძე”
  • German: “Lhotse”
  • German: “Lhoze”
  • German: “Lhozê”
  • Greek: “Λότσε”
  • Hebrew: “להוטסה”
  • Hindi: “ल्होत्से”
  • Hungarian: “Lhoce”
  • Hungarian: “Lhotse”
  • Icelandic: “Lhotse”
  • Ido: “Lhotse”
  • Indonesian: “Lhotse”
  • Italian: “Lhotse”
  • Japanese: “ローツェ”
  • Javanese: “Lhotse”
  • Kazakh: “Лхоцзе”
  • Korean: “로체산”
  • Kurdish: “Lhotse”
  • Kurdish: “لهۆتسە”
  • Ladin: “Lhotse”
  • Latvian: “Lodze”
  • Lithuanian: “Lhotsė”
  • Lithuanian: “Lotsė”
  • Macedonian: “Лоце”
  • Maithili: “ल्होत्से हिमालय”
  • Malay: “Gunung Lhotse”
  • Malay: “Lhotse”
  • Marathi: “लोत्से”
  • Marathi: “ल्होत्से”
  • Mingrelian: “ლჰოძე”
  • Nepali: “लहोत्से”
  • Nepali: “ल्होत्से हिमाल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lhotse”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lhotse”
  • Norwegian: “Lhotse”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lhotse”
  • Oriya: “ଲୋତ୍ସେ”
  • Ossetian: “Лхоцзе”
  • Persian: “لهوتسه”
  • Piemontese: “Lhotse”
  • Polish: “Lhotse”
  • Portuguese: “Lhotse”
  • Romanian: “Lhotse”
  • Russian: “Lhotse”
  • Russian: “гора Лхоцзе”
  • Russian: “Лходзе”
  • Russian: “Лхоцзе”
  • Scots: “Lhotse”
  • Serbian: “Лоце”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lhotse”
  • Slovak: “Lhoce”
  • Slovenian: “Lhotse”
  • Slovenian: “Lotse”
  • Spanish: “Lhotse”
  • Sundanese: “Lhotse”
  • Swahili: “Lhotse”
  • Swedish: “Lhotse”
  • Tajik: “Лхотсе (қулла)”
  • Tajik: “Лхотсе”
  • Tamil: “இலோட்ஃசே மலை”
  • Tamil: “லகோத்சே மலை”
  • Tamil: “லகோத்ஸே மலை”
  • Tamil: “லோட்சே”
  • Tibetan: “ལྷོ་རྩེ”
  • Turkish: “Lhotse Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Лхоцзе”
  • Urdu: “لہوٹسے”
  • Uzbek: “Lxotse”
  • Venetian: “Lhotse”
  • Vietnamese: “Lhotse”
  • Welsh: “Lhotse”
  • Western Panjabi: “لہوٹسے”
  • Wu Chinese: “洛子峰”
  • Yue Chinese: “洛子峰”
  • “nena Lose”
  • “ल्होत्से”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lhotse Nup I and Lhotse North I.

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