{"id":87338,"date":"2026-02-11T17:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=87338"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:10:05","slug":"lhotse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lhotse\/","title":{"rendered":"Lhotse, Location, Height, Mountain Range, Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain in the world. Its name in Tibetan means \u201cSouth Peak,\u201d reflecting its position just south of Mount Everest. It stands on the border between Nepal\u2019s Khumbu region in Solukhumbu district and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Lhotse forms a major part of the Everest massif and is connected to Everest by the South Col Mountain Pass at about 7,600 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also Read: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-manaslu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Manaslu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Lhotse Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lhotse is an opened Himalayan expedition peak within the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal. The major features of the peak are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is situated in Solukhumbu district, Province 1, along Nepal-Tibet border within the Everest massif of the Himalayas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Height<\/strong>: Its elevation reaches 8,516 metres or 27,940 feet, making it one of only fourteen eight thousanders globally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Global Ranking<\/strong>: It ranked fourth worldwide after Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga based on official elevation records.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mountain Range<\/strong>: It is part of the Khumbu range, forming a horseshoe arc with Everest and Nuptse.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Major Summits<\/strong>: It includes Lhotse Main 8,516 m, Lhotse Middle 8,414 m, Central II 8,372 m and Lhotse Shar 8,383 m.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Climate<\/strong>: It experiences extreme alpine climate with permanent snow, sub zero temperatures and high velocity winds year round.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>First Ascent<\/strong>: Lhotse was first successfully climbed on May 18, 1956 by Swiss mountaineers Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss via the standard route.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Human Settlement<\/strong>: Nearest villages include: Lobuche that lies 8.3 km away and Namche Bazaar is 34.1 km distant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mountaineering Significance<\/strong>: South Face and Northeast Face are technically demanding, whereas the Northeast face remains unclimbed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also Read: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pamir-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pamir Mountains<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lhotse is the world\u2019s fourth highest mountain at 8,516 m, located on the Nepal\u2013Tibet border near Everest, known for its South Face and extreme alpine climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":86563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[4935,5335],"class_list":{"0":"post-87338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-studies","8":"tag-geography","9":"tag-lhotse","10":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87339,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87338\/revisions\/87339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}