Western Cwm

The valley of silence is the highest valley or Kar Earth.

Another name of this valley is ( Kuhm spoken ) in English " Western Cwm ", both according to the Welsh word for " valley " or " Kar " and in reference to the glaciers and the region known as Khumbu.

The valley lies in Nepal, in an extremely inaccessible location southwest of the summit of Mount Everest, north-west from the summit of Lhotse and Nuptse northeast of the Seven -thousand. North of the valley from the notorious West Ridge of Everest is limited, its southern flank forming the chain of the Western and Ostgrate of Nuptse, leading to the West Ridge of Lhotse, and at the end of the valley rises the icy flank of Lhotse, the highest pass on the leads of the earth, the 8000 meter high South Col over to the easternmost valley of Kangshung glacier in Tibet.

The valley itself is an irritating place. Surrounded by high mountain ranges, it is in the valley often no wind (hence the name: Valley of Silence ) and the day often unusually hot by the reflection of sunlight on the many ice and snow surfaces; at night or after sunset, temperatures can fall deep below zero. The only access to the valley is an extremely dangerous, about 600 meters measuring the resulting icefall in this valley, Khumbu glacier.

The valley itself begins at an altitude of about 6000 meters above the icefall; in this region is usually the " Pre- Deferred base camp " or Advanced Base Camp, built shortly ABC. At the end of the valley a few hundred meters or about to hit the flank of Lhotse, another camp is built.

In its glaciated trough arises from the Khumbu Glacier. Beneath the Valley of Silence is located on the glacier moraine the Everest base camp at about 5400 meters above sea level, from which the valley is visited: about one of the most dangerous ways of the earth, namely uphill rising by a 600 meter ice cliff, in the the glacier at about 5 centimeters per hour moves. The path is lined seracs, gigantic broken ice needles that the volume can have a high-rise building with heights up to 35 meters, and can almost fall over at any time. Between the seracs are crevasses that can be over 150 feet deep parts. The icefall is by far the most dangerous part of the way up on the most common route of Everest climbers, the South Col route.

Behind the icefall in the actual valley it is relatively safe, but you go on a moving glacier, which has huge gaps in particular plenty of 6100 m and 6500 m altitude. The valley itself is only slightly inclined to the eastern end of the valley and has at 6700-6800 m in length 4600-4700 m, which corresponds to an average gradient of 9.5 °.

The first person who looked into the valley of silence, said to have been the famous English mountaineer George Mallory. He climbed in his explorations of the Everest region on 19 July 1921 by the Tibetan side of the Lho La Pass northwest of the Khumbu Valley of the Rongbuk glacier. From the pass of 6000 meters he looked obliquely into ostsüdöstliche direction in the valley of silence. He reported that due to the huge Eisbruchs no one could get into this valley. The first photo from the ice cliff and the valley made ​​the New Zealanders LV Bryant in 1935 from the same place. Raymond Lambert and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were in 1952 as part of a Swiss Everest expedition, the first to reach the valley of silence. A year later, in 1953, came the English expedition under John Hunt with the Erstbesteigern, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, through this valley on the summit of Mt Everest.

Valley of Silence is also the title of a film that has nothing to do with the real valley on Mount Everest.

Location

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  • Icefall - end: 27 ° 59 ' 28 " N, 86 ° 52' 20" O27.99111111111186.872222222222 at 6000 m
  • Center of the valley: 27 ° 58 ' 51 " N, 86 ° 53' 53 " O27.98083333333386.898055555556 at 6400 m
  • End of the valley: 27 ° 58 '7 "N, 86 ° 54' 41 " O27.96861111111186.911388888889 to 6780 m

Three Pinnacles | Hillary Step | Norton Couloir | Hornbein Couloir | Three stone steps

Kangshung Wall | Kangshung Glacier | Valley of Silence | Khumbu Glacier | Rongbuk Glacier

27.98083333333386.8980555555566400Koordinaten: 27 ° 58 ' 51 " N, 86 ° 53' 53 " O

  • Mount Everest
Sherpa people John Hunt, Baron Hunt Norton-Couloir Hornbein-Couloir Three Steps Kangshung Face
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