Rongbuk Glacier

The Rongbuk Glacier ( also Rongbuk Glacier or Rongbu, Chinese绒布 冰川) is beside the Khumbu Glacier and Kangshung one of the three glaciers which flow from Mount Everest. It is located in the district Dingri the governmental district of Shigatse in Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. He has partnered with the Western Rongbuk glacier a length of slightly more than 25 km. The Rongbuk glacier was explored by George Mallory in the search for possible ascent routes to Mount Everest in 1921.

The north face of Mount Everest is the accumulation zone of the main glacier. It extends from the north ridge which divides the north wall and connects to the Changtse, along the north side of the west shoulder to Khumbutse.

Further west - between Pumori, Nup -La and Gyachung Kang - are the Nährgebiete the Western Rongpugletschers, west of the Changtse unites with the main glacier and now flows to the north. About 4 km down the valley of that confluence led the Eastern Rongpugletscher whose glacier tongue now no longer reaches the ice of the main glacier. The Eastern Rongpugletscher feeds on the snow of the eastern part of the Everest North Face as well as the east side of Changtse. About the Eastern Rongpugletscher the standard route runs north to climb Mount Everest, here lies at about 6400 m advance base camp. At the end of the Rongbuk glacier is the base camp of the northern route, further down the valley of the same is the Rongbuk monastery.

The outflow of the glacier first is called Rong Chu and then merges with the outflow of the west adjacent to the Rongbuk Glacier, subjugation or Rongbuk. This leads into the Arun ( Bum Chu ), a tributary of the Koshi.