Lhotse
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Lhotse
a peak in the Great Himalayas. Elevation, 8,545 m. It is composed of crystalline rock. The peak was first climbed by the Swiss mountaineers E. Reiss and F. Luchsinger in 1956.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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That is the reason why few people have attempted to climb Mount
Lhotse.
Summit of
Lhotse was not part of his plan, however, he did the adventure as part of acclimatisation.
Vajpayee scaled Mount
Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world, to become the youngest in the world to climb it.
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