Rongbuk Glacier

The Rongbuk Glacier locates in the Himalaya of southern Tibet, only 300 meters away from the Rongpuk Monastery. It has two large tributary glaciers, the East Rongbuk Glacier and the West Rongbuk Glacier, respectively, flow into the main Rongbuk Glacier.The main Rongbuk Valley and its glacier was first explored by an English climber, George Mallory, while searching for possible routes to the summit of Mt. Everest in 1921. The East Rongbu Glacier was explored by Edward Oliver Wheeler in the same year. He found that the East Valley provided the key to a possible route to the summit of Mt. Everest.