Rongbuk

If you look at Rongbuk, one of the largest Everest glaciers, the mass loss is huge.

Rebecca Novick: Global Warming: The Un-tellable Story Rebecca Novick 2012

If you look at Rongbuk, one of the largest Everest glaciers, the mass loss is huge.

Rebecca Novick: Global Warming: The Un-tellable Story Rebecca Novick 2012

Ultimately, the most fitting epitaph may have been given by the abbot of the Rongbuk Monastery in Tibet, Dzatrul Rinpoche, who commented on one of the earlier British attempts on the mountain.

Ascent to Immortality Michael J. Ybarra 2011

Farther around to the west, flowing down valleys so huge that the eye could not appreciate their scale, were the jumbled ice rivers of the Khumbu and Rongbuk glaciers.

The Wind from The Sun Clarke, Arthur C. 1962

These slides illustrated the enormous ice pinnacles (100-200 feet high) formed on the Himalayan glaciers through the effect of the tropical sun, and also the great difference in appearance between the northern (Rongbuk and Kyetrak) and eastern (Kharta and Kama) valleys, due to the change in the rocks from shales and granite to gneiss, and to the greater effect of the monsoon in the eastern valleys.

The Mount Everest Expedition 1923

Past the monastery, one could walk along the Rongbuk Glacier toward the upper base camps, passing large needles of ice en route.

NYT > Home Page By EDWARD WONG 2011

Certainly that was the way I regarded the Rongbuk Glacier when I first visited it in the fall of 2001.

NYT > Home Page By EDWARD WONG 2011

Certainly that was the way I regarded the Rongbuk Glacier when I first visited it in the fall of 2001.

NYT > Home Page By EDWARD WONG 2011

Rongbuk, one of the largest Everest glaciers, the mass loss is huge.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rebecca Novick 2012

Past the monastery, one could walk along the Rongbuk Glacier toward the upper base camps, passing large needles of ice en route.

NYT > Home Page By EDWARD WONG 2011