Everest and Lhotse - Southwest Faces

What needs to be said about the highest and fourth highest mountains of the world? This poster features a gigapixel photo taken by Tim Mosedale from Camp III on Nuptse and shows the Southwest Faces of both peaks, including the entire Lhotse Face. The normal route on Everest is visible from Camp II (above the Icefall) to the South Col, and then again from the South Summit to the true Summit, but the Balcony section is hidden out of sight. It also features some legendary routes like the Hard Way (Bonington's 1975 route) and the West Ridge Direct, as well as some never repeated lines. The normal route on Lhotse and Urubko's variant on the West Flank are also visible.

With the extreme resolution, you can see individual climbers heading up the Lhotse Face, and a few sherpas on or near the actual summit, some of the very first of the 2022 season!

Free download link - medium resolution, personal use only (no printing allowed)

Route List

1: West Ridge via Hornbein Couloir, Hornbein, Unsoeld, 1963

2: West Ridge Direct, Belak, Bozic, Phu, Stremfelj, Zaplotnik, 1979 

3: Korean Route, Jin, Kang, Park, Shin, Park, 2010

4: Soviet Buttress, Balyberdin, Berrshov, Ephimov, Golodov, Ivanov, Khomutov, Khrishchaty, Myslovsky, Puchkov, Turkevich, Valiev, 1982

5: Southwest Face (The Hard Way), Boardman, Burke, Haston, Pertemba, Scott, 1975

6: South Pillar, Czok, Kukuzcka, 1980

7: Southwest Ridge (Normal Route), Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, 1953

8: Lhotse West Flank, Urubko, 2010

9: Lhotse Main via Reiss Couloir (Normal Route), Luchsinger, Reiss, 1956

Photo

Nuptse Camp III - ©Tim Mosedale - www.timmosedale.co.uk

May 8, 2022

Updates

March 7, 2024: Added Camp II, III and IV labels, minor graphic update.

Sept 5, 2025: Graphic design update

Sources

The American Alpine Journal:

• “Two Polish Ascents of Everest”, Marek Brniak and Józef Nyka, Vol. 23, Issue 55, 1981
  
• “Mount Everest, New Route on Southwest Face”, USSR Sports Committee, Vol. 25, Issue 57, 1983
  
• “Everest, Southwest Face, Park’s Korean Route”, Christine Pae, Elizabeth Hawley, Vol. 52, Issue 84, 2010
  
• “Lhotse, West Flank”, Denis Urubko, Vol. 53, Issue 85, 2011

The Alpine Journal:

• “Everest, 1953: Narrative of the Expedition”, John Hunt and Michael Westmacott, Vol. 59, Issue 287, 1953 
  
• “British Everest expedition SW face 1975”, Pete Boardman, Ronnie Richards, Vol. 81, Issue 325, 1976
  
  
  
• “Mountain Profile: Mt Everest (Part I)”, Ed Webster, Alpinist Magazine, Issue 26, Spring 2009
  
• “Everest the Hard Way”, Chris Bonington, Hodder and Stoughton, 1976
  
• “Nine Lives: Expeditions on Everest”, Robert Mads Anderson, Bateman Books, 2020
  
• Outside Magazine - Climbing Magazine
• Wirtualne Muzeum Jerzego Kukuczki
  
• twitter.com/Russia
• Mount-Everest3d.com
  
• Alan Arnette
• Stipe Bozic
• Tone Skarja
• Pete Stetson