Sherpas and Everest climbers praying at Rongbuk Monastery

Rongbuk Monastery also known as Dzarongpu or Dzarong is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nyingma, Basum, Tibet. It is an important pilgrimage site of the sherpas which can be accessed in a few days travel across the Himalaya through the Nangpa La. Rongbuk monastery lies near the base of the north side of Mount Everest at 4980 metres (16340 ft) above sea level, at the end of the Dzakar Chu valley. The monastery was also regularly visited by the early expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s and 1930s after a five weeks journey from Darjeeling in the Indian foothills of the Himalaya. Most past and current expeditions attempting Mount Everst from the north Tibetan side do establish their Base Camp near the tongue of the Rongbuk Glacier about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of the Monastery. Nowadays, the monastery is accessible by road in a two to three hour drive from the Friendship Highway from either Shelkar (New Tingri) or Old Tingri. From Rongbuk monastery, there are dramatic views on the north face of Mount Everest, and one of the first British explorers to see it, John Noel, described it: "Some colossal architect, who built with peaks and valleys, seemed here to have wrought a dramatic prodigy—a hall of grandeur that led to the mountain." The climatic conditions in the Sagarmatha region change without prior signs. The team gears up for the summit attempts as the weather clears up and the men set out for the top. There is no time to waste, it's a now or never situation as ...

 

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