Lhotse Middle

Lhotse Middle
Lhotse Middle Lhotse, Khumbu, Nepal Lhotse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Highest point
Elevation	8,410 m (27,590 ft)
Prominence	60 m (200 ft)
Parent peak	Lhotse
Isolation	0.43 km (0.27 mi)
Coordinates	27°57′39.21″N 86°56′20.08″E / 27.9608917°N 86.9389111°E / 27.9608917; 86.9389111Coordinates: 27°57′39.21″N 86°56′20.08″E / 27.9608917°N 86.9389111°E / 27.9608917; 86.9389111
Geography
Location	Lhotse, Khumbu, Nepal Lhotse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Parent range	Himalayas
Climbing
First ascent	May 23, 2001
Easiest route	Snow/rock climb

Lhotse Middle is a subsidiary peak to Lhotse, and was the final eight-thousander to be summited. It is a sharp, jagged peak rising 8,410 metres (27,590 ft) high, and has been described as the most difficult peak over eight thousand meters to climb.^{[citation needed]}

First ascent[]

Lhotse Middle was first climbed in 2001 by three groups of Russian climbers.^[1] Its first ascent was made on 23 May 2001 by Eugeny Vinogradsky, Sergei Timofeev, Alexei Bolotov, and Petr Kuznetsov of a Russian expedition. On May 24, the ascent was made by Nikolai Zhilin, Gleb Sokolov, and Yuri Koshelenko. Vladimir Yanochkin and Victor Volodin reached the summit on May 27. That Russian expedition was led by Nikolay Cherny and Victor Kozlov. Vasily Elagin and Yuri Ermachek were other expedition participants.^[2]

At the time, it was the last unclimbed named eight-thousand-metre summit.^[3] Several members of the 2001 expedition had attempted to reach the summit in 1997, but bad weather forced them to abandon the attempt, and one climber, Vladimir Bashkirov, died during the descent.^[4]

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