Geneva Spur

Looking up at Lhotse, Geneva Spur on the left bank

For other uses, see Geneva (disambiguation).

Geneva Spur, or Eperon des Genevois,^[1] is a geological feature on Mount Everest—it is a large rock buttress near the summits of Everest and Lhotse.^[2]^[3] The Geneva spur is above Camp III and the Yellow Band, but before Camp IV and South Col.^[2] The Geneva Spur name comes from the 1952 Swiss Mount Everest Expedition.^[2] The spur provides a route to the South Col, and is usually traversed by climbers heading for Lhotse or Everest summits.^[4]^[2]

On the 1956 Swiss Everest–Lhotse Expedition, the spur was the location of the last high camp before Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss achieved the first known ascent of Lhotse summit, on May 18th 1956.^[5]

Far bigger than it looks from a distance, Geneva Spur was a welcome mixture of snow and rock scrambling.
— G. Plimpton, As Told at the Explorers Club^[3]

From the top of Geneva Spur, South Col can be seen, and when looking at it Mount Everest is on the left and Lhotse to the right.^[3] Lhotse climbers typically head southeast from Geneva Spur, and on to a couloir to ascend that summit.^[3] The spur is between 25,000 and 26,000 feet altitude.^[3]

References

↑ Baron John Hunt Hunt & John Hunt (1993). The Ascent of Everest. p. 132. ISBN 9780898863611.
1 2 3 4 Grylls, Bear (2004). The Kid Who Climbed Everest. p. 226. ISBN 9781592284931.
1 2 3 4 5 Plimpton, George (2005). As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure. pp. 155–156. ISBN 9781592286584.
↑ "Dave Hahn Achieves His 13th Summit of Mt. Everest". May 24, 2011. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
↑ Aargauer Zeitung, 25 April 2006

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