Cho Oyu

Proper noun

Cho Oyu

1. A mountain in the Himalayas, on the border between Solukhumbu district, Koshi, Nepal and Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the world’s sixth highest mountain.
   • I had a good view of the glacier from here : the East side is very steep and broken, with several tributary glaciers flowing down from Cho Oyu and Pk. 25,909, and from a 23,000-foot Peak (not triangulated) to the North of the latter.1922, E. O. Wheeler, “Appendix II: The Photographic Survey”, in Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 332
   • This may seem a strange and unprofessional way of beginning the story of the ascent of a 26,000-foot mountain, but it was not just the wish to conquer a high peak that turned our thoughts to Cho Oyu; it was the longing for the boundless peace of evening such as these.
     "Next year, Cho Oyu?" Pasang...1957 [1955], Herbert Tichy, “Turquoise Goddess”, in Basil Creighton, transl., Cho Oyu: Gnade der Götter by Ullstein Verlag [Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods], London: Methuen & Co, →OCLC, page 14