Geneva Spur
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Geneva Spur |
| photo | File:Western Cwm and Lhotse.jpg |
| photo_caption | Looking up at Lhotse, Geneva Spur on the left bank |
| elevation | Starts at about 24,000 ft |
| location | Mount Everest |
| range | Himalayas |
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| name = Geneva Spur | photo = File:Western Cwm and Lhotse.jpg | photo_caption = Looking up at Lhotse, Geneva Spur on the left bank | elevation = Starts at about 24,000 ft | traversed = | location = Mount Everest | range = Himalayas | coordinates =
The Geneva Spur, named Eperon des Genevois and has also been called the Saddle Rib is a geological feature on Mount Everestit is a large rock buttress near the summits of Everest and Lhotse. It is a spur near the south col. A related formation is the saddle between the peaks of Mount Everest and Lhotse.
The altitude of the spur is between 25,000 and.
The Geneva Spur name comes from the 1952 Swiss Mount Everest Expedition.
From the top of Geneva Spur, South Col can be seen, and when looking at it Mount Everest is on the left and Lhotse to the right. Lhotse climbers typically head southeast from Geneva Spur, and on to a couloir to ascend that summit.
History
On the 1956 Swiss Everest–Lhotse Expedition, the spur was the location of the last high camp before Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss achieved the first known ascent of Lhotse summit, on 18 May 1956.
::quote Far bigger than it looks from a distance, Geneva Spur was a welcome mixture of snow and rock scrambling. ::
Location on climbing routes to peaks of Everest and Lhotse
The Geneva spur is above the Yellow Band; on the Southeast Ridge climbing route, the Geneva Spur lies above Camp III, but lower than Camp IV (as of 2003) and South Col. The spur provides a route to the South Col, and is usually traversed by climbers heading for Lhotse or Everest summits.
Additional descriptions
The Geneva Spur, [in the 1955 translated edition of a 1952 book] "is now called the Saddle Rib. It is flanked on either side by two steep couloirs, which after fresh falls of snow become dangerously exposed to avalanches, but after dry spells turn to grooves of bare ice".
References
References
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- Baron John Hunt Hunt & John Hunt. (1993). "The Ascent of Everest".
- "To the Third Pole". Werner Laurie.
- Grylls, Bear. (May 2024). "The Kid Who Climbed Everest".
- "NOVA Online | Everest | Climb South | the Way to the Summit".
- (23 April 2003). "Erövringen av Mount Everest".
- ''Aargauer Zeitung'', 25 April 2006
- Plimpton, George. (May 2024). "As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure".
- [http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/05/24/dave-hahn-achieves-his-13th-summit-of-mt-everest/ Dave Hahn Achieves His 13th Summit of Mt. Everest]
- "To the Third Pole". Werner Laurie.
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