In addition to the main summit at 8, 516 metres ( 27, 940 ft ) above sea level, Lhotse Middle ( East ) is and Lhotse Shar is.

* 2001 First ascent of Lhotse Middle by Russian expedition.

Lhotse Middle was first climbed in 2001 by three groups of Russian climbers.

The list is somewhat out-of-date: for example Lhotse Middle, 8430 m, was first climbed in spring 2001.

Beckey seemed a likely choice as a member for the large, 1963 American Everest Expedition, but he was not chosen, even though he had been to Lhotse in 1955 with the International Himalayan Expedition.

Lhotse is best known for its proximity to Mount Everest and the fact that climbers ascending the standard route on that peak spend some time on its northwest face ; see below.

Imja Tse summit was first climbed in 1956 by a Swiss team as a training exercise in preparation for Mount Everest and Lhotse.

* Award of the Minister of Foreign Affaires of Bulgaria in recognition of his support for the expedition to the peak of Lhotse in Himalayas ( 1981 )

In 2011 he climbed Lhotse for a second time, which was his 25th eight-thousander.

Often called the Valley of Silence, the Western Cwm ( cwm, pronounced coom, is Welsh for a bowl shaped valley / cirque ) is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face of Mount Everest.

* May 18 – Lhotse ( main ), the fourth highest mountain, is first ascended.

Lhotse ( Nepali: ल ् ह ो त ् स े; ; ) is the fourth highest mountain on Earth ( after Mount Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga ) and is connected to Everest via the South Col.

Scott E. Fischer ( December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996 ) was an American climber and guide, and the first American to summit 27, 940-foot ( 8, 516 m ) Lhotse, fourth highest mountain in the world.

The South Col usually refers to the southern col between Mount Everest and Lhotse, the first and fourth highest mountains in the world.

Scenery along the highway features important cultural monuments, the upper valley of the Yarlung Tsangpo ( Brahmaputra ) River, vast grasslands and meadows, and mountain vistas including five of the world's highest peaks: Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu and Shishapangma as well as partially unexplored and unclimbed peaks east of Tong La reaching 7, 367 meters at Labuche Kang.

Together with Ernst Reiss he made the first ascent of Lhotse ( 8, 516 m ), the fourth highest mountain in the world, on 18 May 1956.

Kukuczka died attempting to climb the unclimbed South Face of Lhotse in Nepal on 24 October 1989.

Another woman Sherpa who is well known is the two-time Everest summiteer Pemba Doma Sherpa, who died after falling from Lhotse on 22 May 2007.

An early attempt on Lhotse was by the 1955 International Himalayan Expedition, headed by Norman Dyhrenfurth.

After a brief look at the dangerous southern approaches of Lhotse Shar, they turned their attention, during September and October, to the West Cwm and the northwest face of Lhotse, on which they achieved an altitude of about.

The main summit of Lhotse was first climbed on May 18, 1956 by the Swiss team of Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger from the Swiss Mount Everest / Lhotse Expedition.

* 1965 First attempt on Lhotse Shar by a Japanese expedition-reached 8, 100m.

* 1984 May 20 The first ascent of the south face of the mountain finished on Lhotse Shar Czechoslovakia

* Lhotse on Peakware

After several difficult routes in the Alps, she focused her attention on the Andes, and then the Himalayas, where she climbed K2 ( 1992 ; fourth woman overall, and solo climb ), Shisha Pangma ( 1993 ), Cho Oyu ( 1993 ), Lhotse ( 1996 ; first woman solo ), Manaslu ( 1996 ), and Gasherbrum II ( 1997 ), all without supplemental oxygen.

* Wally Berg-Ranger in 1970s and Director of Conservation ; first person to summit Lhotse in 1990.

On May 12, 1970, Sepp Mayerl and Rolf Walter of Austria made the first ascent of Lhotse Shar.

On May 2011 the Spanish climber Carlos Soria Fontán became the oldest person ever to summit Lhotse, at the age of 72 years and 105 days.

* 2011 May 14 – 15, Michael Horst, American guide, summits Mount Everest and Lhotse without descending below Camp IV ( South Col ) with less than 21 hours elapsing between the two summits.

* 2011 On 20 May 2011, Indian Mountaineer Arjun Vajpai became the youngest climber ever to summit Lhotse, aged 17 years, 11 months and 16 days.

* May 24-second group: Nikolay Zilin, Gleb Sokolov ( the first person to have climbed all the Lhotse peaks ), Yuri Koshelenko

** May 23 Lhotse ( 8, 501 m )

However, Lhotse is a dramatic peak in its own right, due to its tremendous south face.

* Wally Berg, first American mountaineer to summit Lhotse, in 1990

* 1988 December 31 Krzysztof Wielicki, a Polish climber, completed the first winter ascent of Lhotse.

* 1996 Chantal Mauduit becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Lhotse.

He is the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders and the first ever to climb Mount Everest, Kangchenjunga, and Lhotse in the winter.

In 1981, he was the first Bulgarian to climb Lhotse without the use of supplementary oxygen.

* 1956 – First ascent of Lhotse 8, 516 meters, by a Swiss team.

* 1970 First ascent of Lhotse Shar by Austrian expedition.

* 1981 October 16 Second ascent of Lhotse Shar Switzerland, Colin Molines

* 1990 October 16 First ascent of South Face of Lhotse, USSR Himalayan expedition Sergey Bershov and Gennadiy Karataev.