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Kangshung Face

Kangshung Face proper noun: a face on the east side of Mount Everest.

Proper noun

Kangshung Face

  1. a face on the east side of Mount Everest
    • On the right, great contorted cornices, overhanging masses of snow and ice, stuck out like twisted fingers over the 10,000-foot drop of the Kangshung Face. Any move on to these cornices could only bring disaster.1953, Edmund Hillary, “The Summit”, in The Ascent of Everest, Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC, page 202
    • For the Vaseline Intensive Care line of lotions, he helped create a campaign centering on a 1994 expedition to climb Mount Everest; a television commercial, a newspaper coupon insert and a direct-mail brochure all hailed Sandy Hill Pittman's efforts to become the first American woman to climb the...1995 March 7, Stuart Elliott, “THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; In the artificial world of Madison Avenue, a few campaigns dare to embrace reality in their pitches.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN...

Examples of Kangshung Face in a sentence

  • You won’t meet anyone at the Kangshung Face too.2015 February 14, “Kaltenbrunner: “All Everest parties around one table!””, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023:
  • We dropped a few steps down the windward side of the ridge as we continued, hyperaware of the overhanging cornices that could so easily lure us too close to the Kangshung Face.2017, Matt Dickinson, chapter 12, in Killer Storm: A Terror Attack at Everest Base Camp, Shrine Bell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 273:
  • The wind edged them to the lip of a 7,000ft drop down the Kangshung Face.2018 June 21, “Charlotte Fox obituary”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2018, Obituary:

Origin of Kangshung Face

Partial calque of Mandarin 康雄壁 (Kāngxióng Bì); compare with Wade-Giles romanization: Kʻang¹-hsiung².

Questions about Kangshung Face

What does Kangshung Face mean?
Kangshung Face means a face on the east side of Mount Everest.
How do you use Kangshung Face in a sentence?
You won’t meet anyone at the Kangshung Face too.
What part of speech is Kangshung Face?
Kangshung Face is a proper noun.

Words near Kangshung Face in the dictionary

  1. Kangpokpi
  2. Kangra
  3. kangri
  4. kangris
  5. kangs
  6. Kangshung Face
  7. Kangting
  8. Kangujam
  9. kanguroo
  10. kanguroos
  11. kanguru

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