Ama Dablam and Lhostche mountains, Himalayas, Hotel Everest view, Namche Bazaar, Nepal

Climbers on the Lhotse Face at 7000m on Mount Everest, Solu Khumbu Everest Region, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Climbers on the Lhotse Face at 7000m on Mount Everest, Solu Khumbu Everest Region, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

A line of climbers on the Lhotse Face, Mount Everest, Solu Khumbu Everest Region, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Climbers on the Lhotse Face at 7000m on Mount Everest, Solu Khumbu Everest Region, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

A line of climbers on the Lhotse Face, Mount Everest, Solu Khumbu Everest Region, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Mount Lhotse, 8501 metres and Mount Ama Dablam, 6856 metres,, Khumbu (Everest) Region, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

View from Gokyo Ri, 5300 metres, Mount Everest, 8850 metres and Mount Lhotse, (850 metres, Dudh Kosi Valley, Solu Khumbu (Everest) Region, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

View from Gokyo Ri (5300 metres), Mt Everest (8850 metres) / Mt Lhotse (8501 metres), Dudh Kosi Valley, Solu Khumbu (Everest) Region, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Tenzing Norgye Memorial Stupa with Mount Everest in the background on the right and Lhotse on the left, Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

A trekker on his way to Everest Base Camp with Everest the distant peak on the left and Lhotse the peak on the right, Khumbu Region, Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

View from Gokyo Ri of Mount Everest, 8850 metres, and Mount Lhotse, 8501 metres, Dudh Kosi Valley, Solu Khumbu (Everest) Region, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Camp 3 at 7100m on the Lhotse Face, Mount Everest, Solu Khumbu Everest Region, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Trekkers look up at Everest, the distant peak on the left, with Nuptse and Lhotse, Khumbu Region, Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

Everest, Lhotse and Makalu, view from Gokyo Ri, 5357m, Gokyo, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha, Eastern Region (Purwanchal), Nepal, Asia

Mount Everest, Nuptse and Lhotse, seen here from Gokyo Ri, Khumbu Region, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Ama Dablam, 6812m, Nuptse and Lhotse mountains, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Khumbu Valley, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Ama Dablam, 6812m, Nuptse and Lhotse mountains, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Khumbu Valley, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

A view of Mount Everest, distant peak to the left behind the Nuptse-Lhotse ridge, from Kongde, Khumbu Region, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

View to Mount Everest and Lhotse from the trail near Namche Bazaar, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Climbers on fixed ropes in the steep, icy Lhotse Face, 6900m, on the way to Camp III, 3, Mount Everest, Himalaya, Nepal

Mount Everest, Mt. Nuptse, left, and Mt. Lhotse, right, from the Gokyo Ri, Khumbu, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal, Asia

View from Gokyo Ri (5360) towards Mount Everest (8850), Nuptse (7861), Lhotse (8501) and Makalu (8463), Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu Himal, Nepal

View from Gokyo Ri (5360) towards Mount Everest (8850), Nuptse (7861), Lhotse (8501) and Makalu (8463), Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu Himal, Nepal

view from Lhotse Face direction west to the summit of Pumori, 7145m, Mount Everest, Himalaya, Nepal

Tengpoche monastery in front of Ama Dablam (6856) and Lhotse (8501), Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu, Nepal

View over Dudh Koshi valley towards Lhotse (8501) and Ama Dablam (6856), Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu Himal, Nepal

A yak skull is painted with Tibetan prayers on top of Mani stones in Nepal's Everest Region.

Climbers make their way to Advanced Basecamp (ABC) through the massive Western Cwm (glacial valley) on the Southeast Ridge route on Mt. Everest, Nepal. Everest's Southwest Face rises to the left with Lhotse and the Lhotse Face in the distance. Jake Norton, 4, 20, 2002, Western Cwm, Everest, Nepal.

Prayer flags wave in the wind at Mt. Everest base Camp.