Makalu
Americannoun
noun
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A US and a Czech climber died on Mount Makalu earlier this month.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
The research, published in Nature Geoscience, adds that this upward pushing force is causing Everest and other neighbouring summits, including the world’s fourth and fifth highest peaks, Lhotse and Makalu, to move upward.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2024
Tekieli was a climbing instructor who climbed in the Himalayas on the Makalu, the fifth highest mountain in the world, and on Broad Peak, as well as in the Alps.
From Washington Times • May 18, 2023
One of 11 children born to a shepherd and homemaker in the village of Makalu, Nepal, she grew up on the slopes of Mount Makalu, the world’s fifth-highest peak at 27,825 feet.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2023
Later still, I encountered a member of Mai Duff s commercial expedition, a twenty-eight-year-old Finn named Veikka Gustafsson whose record of previous Himalayan ascents included Everest, Dhaulagiri, Makalu, and Lhotse.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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