Mong La
Mong La is a mountain saddle in Koshi Province, Nepal and has an elevation of 3,985 metres. Mong La is situated nearby to the hamlet Selawa, as well as near Tashinga.Places of Interest
Highlights include Tengboche and Mount Khumbila.
Tengboche
Photo: Snowmanstudios, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tengboche Monastery, also known as Dawa Choling Gompa, in the Tengboche village in Khumjung in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Sherpa community.
Mount Khumbila
Peak
Photo: Uwe Gille, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Khumbila or Khumbu Yül-Lha, roughly translated as "God of Khumbu village" is one of the high Himalayan peaks in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal within the Sagarmatha National Park.
Syangboche Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0.
Syangboche Airport is a domestic airport located in Namche Bazaar serving Solukhumbu District, a district in Koshi Province in Nepal. Syangboche Airport’s first and foremost challenge is its elevation at 3,780 m; it is exposed to some of the most extreme and capricious weather conditions in the world, with heavy winds, fog and snowfall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khumjung and Deboche.
Khumjung
Photo: DARIO SEVERI, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khumjung is a village in Khumbu Pasanglhamu rural municipality of Solukhumbu District in Province No. 1 of north-eastern Nepal. It is located in the Khumbu sub-region inside Sagarmatha National Park, a world heritage site.
Khunde
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khunde is a village in the Khumbu region of Nepal within the Sagarmatha National Park. It is directly adjacent to Khumjung village in the valley at the foot of Khumbu Yül-Lha, the sacred mountain of the Sherpas.
Mong La
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 3,985 metres
- Category: landform
- Location: Koshi Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.8395° or 27° 50′ 22″ northLongitude
86.736° or 86° 44′ 9″ eastElevation
3,985 metres (13,074 feet)Open location code
7MV8RPQP+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 428704317OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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