North Col

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North Col

1. a col north of Mount Everest. [from 20th c.]
   • 1926, Younghusband, Francis, The Epic of Mount Everest‎, London: Edward Arnold & Co., OCLC 605692699, OL 13697597M, page 65:

     The way to reach the summit was therefore now getting very much clearer. The North-East Ridge could be reached by the edge of the North Face from the North Col. From the North Col to the summit the way was clear.

   • 1998, Jim Wickwire, Dorothy Bullitt, Addicted to Danger: A Memoir‎, Pocket Books, →ISBN, OCLC 40646263, page 193:

     With the help of yaks, the team set up an advanced base camp at twenty-one thousand feet, below the North Col, a saddle between Everest and Changtse, its satellite peak to the north.

   • 2003, Jon E. Lewis, editor, The Mammoth Book of How it Happened Everest‎, London: Constable & Robinson, →ISBN, OCLC 59373135, page xxx:

     During the course of the reconnaissance, the East Rongbuk Glacier and the North Col were discovered, which seemed to offer a promising route to Everest’s North East Ridge and thence the summit itself.

   • 2011, Davis, Wade, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest‎, The Bodley Head, →ISBN, OCLC 775304740, OL 28413560M, page xiii:

     Norton knew the cruel face of the mountain. From the North Col, the route to the summit follows the North Ridge, which rises dramatically in several thousand feet to fuse with the Northeast Ridge, which, in turn, leads to the peak.

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