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North Face (Everest)

North side of Mount Everest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ17012778 ↗
Source-derived summary

The North Face of Mount Everest is the northern aspect of the highest mountain in the world. It can partly be seen from North Base Camp. George Mallory's body was found on the North Face during the 1999 Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition. Major features of the face are the Hornbein Couloir and the Norton Couloir. Notable on the left end, the northeast ridge of Everest, are the Three Steps and the Three Pinnacles.

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Routes

Location

View from above

See also

Kangshung face (East side)

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “North Face (Everest)” is north side of Mount Everest. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through North, Face and Everest, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, North, Face and Everest is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17012778. Authority coordinates are 27.998, 86.931. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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