Expedition in Nepal
Everest Expedition
Mount Everest was known as Peak XV until 1856, when it was named for Sir George Everest, the surveyor general of India from 1830 to 1843. The measurements made by the Great Trigonometrically Survey in 1850.Most Nepali people refer to the mountain as Sagarmatha, meaning "Sky Mother." Speakers of Tibetan languages, including the Sherpa people of northern Nepal, refer to the Mountain as Chomolungma, Tibetan for Mother Goddess of the Country."
Annapurna Expedition
In 1948 the formerly closed, secretive nation of Nepal opened its borders, firstly to a group of American ornithologists, then to a team of Swiss climbers who, under Rene Dittert, explored the northeast of the country. In 1949 the French Federation de la Montagne began negotiations with the Nepalese government for permission to climb one of the great peaks that stood wholly within Nepal.Ama Dablam Expedition
In the heart of the Sherpa Land the local community is considered the most sacred ornament box is worn by ladies, which is symbolic representation of the Mt. Ama Dablam. It is a steep pyramid of ice with vertical walls and sharp, exposed ridges. Ama Dablam forms a lasting impression on many trekkers in Nepal, as it is perhaps the most stunning mountain along the popular trekking route to Everest Base Camp.Cho-Oyu Expedition
The British Indian Survey did not at first assign Cho Oyu a peak number. Thogh it was eventually assigned T45 (later changed MI) it must have originally seemed a minor peak among the giants that spread across the Nepalese horizon from Makalu to Dhaulagiri. The name is now invariably to mean 'Goddess of Turquise', the peak glowing turquoise when seen from Tibet in the light of an afternoon sun. As goddess is chomo in Tibetan, and turquoise is yu, the construction of chomo yu to Cho Oyu seems conclusive.Dhaulagiri Expedition
Peak XLII of the Indian survey is named from the Sanskrit ' Dhavala Giri', meaning White Mountain. It is often, and correctly, said that travelers to the Himalaya, when asking the name of a prominent peak, were told it was Dhaulagiri. It seems that when needing a name quickly, the local people chose an obvious one: most Himalayan peaks are, after substantially white.Kanchenjunga Expedition
Kanchenjunga, Peak IX of the Indian Survey, is the most easterly of the 8,000m peaks, standing on the border between Nepal Sikkim. There are a number of subsidiary summits, at least three over 8,000m: the south summit - occasionally called Kanchenjunga II - was given a unique designation (peak VIII) by the Indian survey. The central (between the south and main tops) and west summits are both over 8,400m, the west (Yalung Kang ) having been the specific object of several expeditions.Lhotse Expedition
Lhotse was EI of the Indian Survey, but appears to have had no local name either in Tibet or Nepal when Charles Howard-Bury's Everest reconnaissance team advanced advanced along the Kama valley and northern edge of the Kangshung Glacier in August 1921. In the absence of an alternative, Howard-Bury's christened it Lho-tse, south peak in Tibetan as it laid to the south of Everest, separated from it by the South Col. Because of the name's Tibetan derivation it has stuckMakalu Expedition
Makalu was peak XIII of the Indain survey, the survey suggesting, in 1884, that its name was Khamba Lung. This seems to have derived from the local area being called Khamba, through the valley to the north of the peal was called Kama Ling (the valley of the Rive Kama).The French had negotiated permission for an attempt on Makalu from Tibet as easy as 1934 but the Tibetans had changed their minds before any significant planning was underway.
