This mountain contains the Cornice Traverse and a section of pale metamorphosed limestone known as the Yellow Band, which lies above a series of black schist studied by Bill Wager. It also contains an anvil-shaped portion called the Geneva Spur. This peak was sighted and surveyed by John Noel over 20 years after an expedition by Francis Younghusband and Charles Bruce. It was originally referred to
This mountain contains the Cornice Traverse and a section of pale metamorphosed limestone known as the Yellow Band, which lies above a series of black schist studied by Bill Wager. It also contains an anvil-shaped portion called the Geneva Spur. This peak was sighted and surveyed by John Noel over 20 years after an expedition by Francis Younghusband and Charles Bruce. It was originally referred to as Peak XV by Andrew Waugh, and it is surrounded by the Pumori glacier, which translates as "Unmarried Daughter," a name provided by George Mallory. Its height was established by the Great Trigonometric Survey, and its alternate names include Sagarmatha and Zhumulangma. Named in honor of a British surveyor general from 1830 to 1843, for 10 points, name this mountain scaled by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary.
This mountain contains the Cornice Traverse and a section of pale metamorphosed limestone known as the Yellow Band, which lies above a series of black schist studied by Bill Wager.
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