Gokyo

Gokyo गोक्यो
Village
Approaching Gokyo
Gokyo Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27°57′16″N 86°41′43″E / 27.95444°N 86.69528°E / 27.95444; 86.69528Coordinates: 27°57′16″N 86°41′43″E / 27.95444°N 86.69528°E / 27.95444; 86.69528
Country	Nepal
Zone	Sagarmatha Zone
District	Solukhumbu District
VDC	Khumjung
Elevation	4,750 m (15,580 ft)
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Gokyo is a small village in Solukhumbu District in the Himalayas of Nepal, at the foot of Gokyo Ri and located on the eastern shore of the third Gokyo Lake, Dudh Pokhari. Gokyo Cho (Dudh Pokhari). The village is located at an elevation of 4,750 m (15,584 ft),^[1] making it one of the highest settlements in Nepal and in the world. Almost all the buildings are guest houses for trekkers. The people who live in the village leave during the winter and move to other (lower) villages such as Namche Bazaar. The village is best viewed on Google Earth at

27°57′16″N 86°41′43″E / 27.95444°N 86.69528°E / 27.95444; 86.69528. To the southeast is the village of Chharchung.

In 1995, an avalanche killed 42 people, including 17 foreign nationals (13 Japanese, two Canadians, one Irish woman and a German). A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal had resulted in 6 ft (1.8 m) of snow being dumped into the mountains during the previous week, significantly increasing the avalanche hazard.^[2]

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• Photograph of the village and lake