Cho Oyu

American  

[choh oh-yoo] / ˈtʃoʊ oʊˈyu /

Or Cho Oyo

1. a peak on the Nepal-Tibet border, in the Himalayas: sixth highest in the world. 26,906 feet (8,201 meters).

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Example Sentences

On Cho Oyu, another mountain which stands between China and Nepal, a team of climbers on the 8,201m peak retreated temporarily as snow fell unabated.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025

Stand at the lower end of Ngozumpa Glacier, which flows from 26,864-foot Cho Oyu, the world’s sixth-highest mountain, and you will see what appears to be a jumble of rocks filling the valley.

From National Geographic • Jan. 10, 2024

Last week, a Chinese expedition set up a series of weather stations on the 8,201-metre Cho Oyu on Tibet's border with Nepal to measure the impact of climate change in the Himalayas.

From Reuters • Oct. 8, 2023

Kami Rita has scaled several of the world’s highest peaks in addition to Everest, including K2, Cho Oyu, Manaslu and Lhotse.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

Dynamic and statuesque, thirty-eight years old, Fox was a ski patroller from Aspen, Colorado, who’d previously summitted two 8,000-meter peaks: Gasherbrum II in Pakistan, at 26,361 feet, and Everest’s 26,748-foot neighbor, Cho Oyu.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer