This article is about the Himalayan area in Tibet. For the Tibetan ceremonial scarf, see Khata.
Tibetan region east of Mount Everest
Sketch map of Kharta and environs
Kharta[note 1] (Chinese: 卡达) is a region in Tibet lying to the east of Mount Everest and centred on the Kharta valley and Kama valley.[note 2] The 40-kilometre (25 mi) Kharta valley starts at the col at Lhakpa La at the head of the Kharta Glacier from which the Kharta Chu (Chinese: 卡达曲) river flows east to join the Phung Chu just beyond Khata village. Nearby to the south, the Kama valley starts at the Kangshung Glacier at the foot of Everest's Kangshung Face, and the Kama Chu flows southeast to the Phung Chu. The 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition discovered Kharta when reconnoitring ways to climb Mount Everest and managed to reach the North Col via the Lhakpa La. Since that time Kharta has not been used as a way to approach the summit of Everest but the two valleys have become a popular area for trekking.
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The 40-kilometre (25 mi) Kharta valley starts at the col at Lhakpa La at the head of the Kharta Glacier from which the Kharta Chu (Chinese: 卡达曲) river...
north, through Tibet. A feasible route was discovered from the east up the Kharta Glacier and then crossing the Lhakpa La pass north east of Everest. It was...
camp at approximately 20,000 ft (6,096 m). From the western head of the Kharta Glacier, they ascended to the col of Lhakpa La, at 22,470 ft (6,849 m),...
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days to reach the Kangshung Glacier from the nearest road at Yeuba (near Kharta.) A 1981 American attempt led by Richard Blum and Louis Reichardt, including...
the Kama Valley, and grew up in Thame. He spent his early childhood in Kharta, near the north of the country. Norgay went to Nepal as a child to work...
reached from the east, the whole expedition decamped to the Kharta region, hoping that the Kharta Chu river and valley would reach up to the North Col from...
realizations do not occur. For example, /ˈkɑ̂ːrta/ ('map') is realized as [ˈkʰɑ̌ʁta] (note that Tone 2 in Malmö sounds like Tone 1 in Stockholm), etc. An /r/...
eastern approaches to Everest. They decided the Kharta valley was suitable. Heron separately surveyed from Kharta back to Tingri and went on to make several...
La is the starting point of the Kharta Glacier which descends eastwards along the valley towards Kharta. The Kharta River is a tributary of the Arun...
with Indian Everest Expedition 1965 as seventeenth. Gombu was born in the Kharta region to the north-east of Everest. His early life was marked by the complexities...
har/khar, meaning "path" or "road." Nicholas Adontz proposed a connection with Kharta, a city mentioned in Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions, putatively having...
Amar Singh Thapa (Sardar), Bhotu Pande and in the second battle from the Kharta Axis. In 1794, King Rana Bahadur Shah came of age, and his first act was...
attempt, had been sent over the 22,000-foot (6,700 m) Lhakpa La to the Kharta valley to recuperate and now the rest of the team joined them there to enjoy...
Glacier can only be reached following an approach march of several days from Kharta, including crossing via the Shao La or Langma La passes into the Kama valley...
is the col that was traversed by the 1921 expedition after ascending the Kharta valley. The party then split up to take part in what Shipton described as...
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