Summit (8 850m) – Roof of the world, May 5, 1999
Camp IV (8 000m) – South Col
Camp III (7 400m) – On the Lhotse face
Camp II (6 500m) – In the Western Cwn
Camp I (6 100m) – Above the Icefall
Base camp (5 400m) – On the glacial moraine
Comparative altitudes of mountains
Nepal
Nepal is a rectangular country, 150km wide by 800km long, between Tibet (China) and India. The Himalayas in the north of the country (10 mountains over 8 000 metres high, more than 100 over 7 000m) act as a weather barrier and a defence. Over a distance of 25km, the altitude can vary from 6 000m. Mountains can be crossed via rivers (often hemmed in by steep walls) and cols at 4 500 to 6 000 metres.
35% of the country is below 1000m. The Terai is a low-lying region bordering India, with plains, jungles and swanps where you can see rhinoceros, elephants, tigers…
Time difference
9 hours and 45 minutes difference between Montreal and Kathmandu (GMT : +5h45).
Over 20 hours by air.
Population
- 26.5 million inhabitants, of whom 6.2 million are Indo-Nepalese, 960,000 Tamgans, 750,000 Tharus, 620,000 Newars, 536,000 Magars, 500,000 Rais, 357,000 Gurungs, 300,000 Limbus, 51,000 Sherpas.
- Ages: 50% are under 19 years old
- Life expectancy: 53
- 10 million of the people are illiterate.
Religions
- Hindu (state religion until 1990) 90%,
- Buddhist 5.8%,
- Muslim 2.7%.
The “8000 metre club”
- Everest : 8 850m (29,035′)
- K-2 : 8 611m (28,250′)
- Kangchejunga : 8 586m (28,200′)
- Lhotse : 8 516m (27,940′)
- Makalu : 8 463m (27,766′)
- Cho Oyu : 8 201m (26,906′)
- Dhaulagiri : 8 167m (26,795′)
- Manaslu : 8 163m (26,781′)
- Nanga Parbat : 8 125m (26,660′)
- Annapurna : 8 091m (26,545′)
- Gasherbrum I : 8 068m (26’470′)
- Broad Peak : 8 047m (26,400′)
- Shishapangma : 8 046m (26,397′)
- Gasherbrum II : 8 035m (26,360′)