snow plume

[′snō ‚plüm]

(meteorology)

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Everest is in view with a huge snow plume blowing away to the East and from here it towers over the Lhotse Nuptse wall (a wall over 25,000 ft high).

Letters from the top of the world: in a collection of edited extracts from letters written during the 1953 expedition, and recently published in book form, George Lowe provides a fascinating first-hand insight into one of the triumph's of human exploration

It adds that early morning flights are scheduled to take advantage of better weather conditions before winds blow up snow plumes that can obscure the Himalayan panorama.

Everest tour plane crash kills all 19 on board

Amanda Richmond, 54, battled electrical storms, giant snow plumes and freezing temperatures to scale the 8,850m mountain, the highest on earth.