North Face (Everest)
The North Face is the northern side of Mount Everest. George Mallory's body was found on the North face. The North Face is a place where one author/climber noted, "a simple slip would mean death."
- Hornbein Couloir
- Norton Couloir
- Three Steps
- Three Pinnacles
Views
Routes
| Standard route from north, mainly identical with :en:George Mallory|Mallory's route in 1924; high camps on c.7700 m and 8300 m, present day camp on 8300 m is located a bit further west. | |
| Zakharov Couloir. | |
| :en:Reinhold Messner|Messner's traverse from north ridge to Norton Couloir in 1980 w/o O2. | |
| Great Couloir or Norton Couloir. | |
| Complete northeast ridge with :en:Three Pinnacles|Three Pinnacles; Japanese route to the top. Climbed before by :en:Russell Brice|Russell Brice & Comp., but only the purple-marked part of the ridge, without going to the summit; descent via standard route. | |
| American 1963, "The West Ridge". | |
| Yugoslavian route, 1979. | |
| Hornbein Couloir. | |
| †1 | Resting place of Mallory's body, discovered in 1999. |
| †2 | 1st Step, resting place of :en:Francys Arsentiev|Francys Arsentiev, ":en:Green Boots|Green Boots", David Sharp. |
| †3 | 2nd Pinnacle, resting place of :en:Peter Boardman|Peter Boardman in 1992. |
| ? | 2nd step, base at 8605 m, c.30 m high,. |
| Point at ca. 8325 m, reached by :en:George Ingle Finch|George Ingle Finch with supplementary oxygen in 1922. | |
| Point at 8572 m on the western side of the Couloir, reached by :en:Edward Felix Norton|Edward Felix Norton 1924 without supplementary oxygen. | |
| Area left out by the Yugoslavian party on their "complete West Ridge" ascent in 1979. | |
| Difficult area that forced Americans, :en:Tom Hornbein|Tom Hornbein and :en:Willi Unsoeld|Willi Unsoeld, to traverse from the west ridge to the north face in 1963. | |
| Changtse is in the foreground |