Changtse: Elevation, First Ascent, Everest Connection & Fast Facts

Changtse

Immediately north of Mount Everest rises Changtse, one of the world’s highest 7,000-meter mountains and one of the most geographically fascinating peaks in the Everest massif. Its Tibetan name means “North Peak,” an appropriate description for a mountain connected directly to Everest through the famous North Col.

Changtse reaches approximately 7,543 meters (24,747 feet) according to a widely used modern mapping figure, although published elevations vary. Peakbagger currently uses 7,553 meters, while other mountaineering records have reported figures ranging from roughly 7,519 to 7,580 meters or more.

The mountain stands entirely within the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, between the Main Rongbuk and East Rongbuk glaciers. Although Changtse has less than 500 meters of topographic prominence and is therefore technically subordinate to Everest, its immense elevation makes it higher than almost every independent mountain outside High Asia.

Its climbing history is unusually complicated. Dutch mountaineer Johan Taks appears to have made the first known ascent on October 3, 1982, but he did so without a permit while participating in an Everest expedition. German climber Udo Zehetleitner made the first authorized ascent eleven days later, on October 14.

⚡ Fast Facts

Fact	Details
Mountain	Changtse
Name Meaning	“North Peak”
Alternate Name	Bei Peak
Chinese Name	章子峰
Continent	Asia
Country	China
Region	Tibet Autonomous Region
Mountain Range	Himalayas
Subrange	Mahalangur Himal
Mountain Group	Everest Massif
Commonly Cited Elevation	7,543 m / 24,747 ft
Peakbagger Elevation	7,553 m / 24,780 ft
Prominence	Approximately 497 m / 1,631 ft in Peakbagger data
Isolation	Approximately 2.39 km / 1.48 mi
Key Col	North Col
Parent Peak	Mount Everest
Nearest Higher Neighbor (NHN)	Mount Everest
Coordinates	Approximately 28.025° N, 86.916° E
Classification	Seven-thousander
First Known Ascent	October 3, 1982 — Johan Taks, without a climbing permit
First Permitted Ascent	October 14, 1982 — Udo Zehetleitner
Classic Route	Northeast/East Ridge
Major Glaciers	Changtse Glacier, East Rongbuk Glacier, Main Rongbuk Glacier

📍 Where Is Changtse?

Changtse stands immediately north of Mount Everest in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

Unlike Everest itself, which straddles the border between Nepal and China, Changtse lies entirely on the Tibetan side.

The mountain occupies a remarkably important position within the Everest landscape. The Main Rongbuk Glacier lies to its west, while the East Rongbuk Glacier lies to its east and southeast. A smaller glacier descending from Changtse feeds into the East Rongbuk system.

South of the mountain is one of the most famous high-altitude passes on Earth: the North Col.

The North Col connects Changtse directly with Mount Everest. Anyone climbing Everest by the traditional northern route from Tibet must therefore travel through terrain immediately beneath Changtse.

This relationship makes Changtse far more familiar visually to Everest climbers than its relatively obscure name might suggest.

🏔️ Changtse and Mount Everest

Changtse is essentially Everest’s great northern neighbor.

Mount Everest reaches 8,848.86 meters (29,031.7 feet), more than 1,300 meters above Changtse. The two are joined by a high ridge descending from Everest’s North Ridge to the North Col before rising again toward Changtse.

In topographic terms, Everest is both Changtse’s parent peak and Nearest Higher Neighbor.

Their summits are only a few kilometers apart.

Peakbagger places higher terrain on Everest approximately 2.39 kilometers from Changtse’s summit, while the two summit points themselves are roughly four kilometers apart.

The closeness creates an unusual situation. Changtse is taller than almost every mountain in the world, yet it rises so close to Everest that its independent topographic prominence is comparatively modest.

🧭 Nearest Higher Neighbor: Mount Everest

Everest and Changtse sunset. Taken in the Flannelette temple of north side Everest.

The Nearest Higher Neighbor (NHN) of Changtse is Mount Everest.

There is no mystery in this case.

Everest stands immediately southeast of Changtse and towers more than a kilometer above it.

Peakbagger identifies Everest as Changtse’s:

Nearest Higher Neighbor
Line parent
Prominence parent
Island parent

The two mountains are connected through the North Col, making Changtse one of the clearest examples of a very high summit whose topographic identity is strongly tied to an even larger neighboring mountain.

📐 The North Col

The North Col is the key saddle separating Changtse from Mount Everest.

Peakbagger gives the col an elevation of approximately 7,056 meters (23,150 feet), although other mountaineering sources commonly use figures around 7,000 to 7,020 meters.

That means the saddle itself is higher than many famous mountains.

The North Col was first reached by members of the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition, which included George Mallory, Guy Bullock, and Edward Oliver Wheeler.

It later became the gateway to Everest’s classic northern route.

Modern climbers approaching Everest from Tibet generally travel up the East Rongbuk Glacier toward Advanced Base Camp before ascending steep snow and ice to the North Col.

From there, Everest climbers turn south toward the North Ridge.

Changtse rises immediately to the north.

📏 How High Is Changtse?

The elevation of Changtse is not completely settled.

A commonly accepted figure based on modern Chinese mapping is:

7,543 meters / 24,747 feet

Peakbagger currently lists:

7,553 meters / 24,780 feet

Historical expedition reports have used figures including:

7,519 meters
7,543 meters
7,550 meters
7,553 meters
7,580 meters
7,583 meters

This variation is not particularly unusual for high Himalayan summits.

Different maps have relied on different survey datasets, vertical reference systems, photogrammetry, satellite measurements, and historical altimeter readings.

For Mountain Field Guide, 7,543 meters is a reasonable primary figure because it has long been associated with modern Chinese mapping, but readers should understand that several reputable mountaineering databases use slightly different elevations.

📐 How Prominent Is Changtse?

Peakbagger calculates Changtse’s prominence at approximately 497 meters (1,631 feet).

That places the mountain below the common 500-meter threshold used by some lists when deciding which high summits should be regarded as independent mountains.

Its modest prominence explains an apparent paradox.

Changtse is often described as one of the world’s roughly 50 highest summits by elevation, yet it may disappear entirely from lists requiring substantial topographic independence.

Neither description is necessarily wrong.

The difference depends on whether the list is ranking every significant summit or only mountains exceeding a particular prominence threshold.

🏔️ The Mahalangur Himal

Changtse belongs to the Mahalangur Himal, one of the most spectacular sections of the entire Himalayan chain.

The Mahalangur Himal contains an extraordinary collection of high mountains, including:

Mount Everest
Lhotse
Makalu
Cho Oyu
Nuptse
Pumori
Changtse

Four of the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter mountains occur within the broader region.

Changtse’s location next to Everest places it at the center of this exceptional concentration of high terrain.

The Tibetan side of the range is generally drier and more open than the southern Nepalese side, providing sweeping views of the immense north faces and glaciers of the Everest massif.

❄️ The Rongbuk Glaciers

Changtse stands between two major branches of the Rongbuk Glacier system.

The Main Rongbuk Glacier extends through the valley west and north of Everest.

The East Rongbuk Glacier occupies the valley east of Changtse and provides access toward Everest’s North Col.

A separate Changtse Glacier descends from the mountain and flows toward the East Rongbuk Glacier.

These glaciers have been crucial to the history of Everest exploration.

Early British expeditions used the Rongbuk valleys to gain access to the northern side of Everest because Nepal remained closed to most foreign travelers during the first half of the twentieth century.

The same approach routes also gave mountaineers their first close examination of Changtse.

🪨 Geology of Changtse

Changtse was created by the immense continental collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates.

India began moving northward after separating from Gondwana and eventually collided with Eurasia around 40 to 50 million years ago.

Because both plates contained relatively buoyant continental crust, neither could simply descend beneath the other like dense oceanic crust.

Instead, the collision compressed and thickened Earth’s crust.

Rock layers were:

Folded
Faulted
Metamorphosed
Stacked along thrust faults
Uplifted thousands of meters

These processes created both the Himalayan mountain chain and the Tibetan Plateau.

The collision continues today. Modern geophysical measurements indicate ongoing convergence between India and Eurasia, contributing to continuing Himalayan uplift and frequent earthquakes.

🪨 Geology of the Everest Massif

The Everest massif contains several major geological units exposed at extraordinary elevations.

Broadly, these include high-grade metamorphic rocks, granitic intrusions, and sedimentary rocks that were originally deposited in ancient marine environments.

The summit of Everest itself contains sedimentary rocks associated with the ancient Tethys Ocean, illustrating the astonishing scale of Himalayan uplift.

Changtse belongs to the same intensely deformed central Himalayan tectonic region.

However, detailed descriptions of the exact summit lithology of Changtse are much less widely published than those of Everest.

It is therefore safest to discuss Changtse within the broader geology of the Everest massif rather than assume that every rock unit exposed on Everest occurs identically on Changtse.

🌦️ Climate

Changtse experiences one of the harshest climates on Earth.

Its position north of the main Himalayan crest gives it a relatively dry, high-altitude Tibetan climate, but its enormous elevation means snow and ice persist throughout the year.

The South Asian monsoon delivers tremendous moisture to the southern side of the Himalayas.

Much of that precipitation falls before moist air masses cross the highest ridges, creating a rain-shadow effect across Tibet.

The Rongbuk Valley is consequently much drier than Nepal’s Khumbu Valley on the opposite side of Everest.

At Changtse’s summit, however, low temperatures ensure that precipitation falls primarily as snow.

Climbers must contend with:

Extreme cold
Strong winds
Blowing snow
Rapid weather changes
Avalanche conditions
Low atmospheric pressure
Intense ultraviolet radiation

Winter conditions can be especially severe when the Himalayan summit region is exposed to the subtropical jet stream.

🔭 Early Exploration of Changtse

Changtse became known to mountaineers through the early exploration of Mount Everest.

Because it stands directly beside the northern Everest route, climbers repeatedly crossed its lower slopes and glaciers while searching for a route to the world’s highest summit.

The mountain was initially referred to by some English-language expeditions as Everest’s North Peak.

Its Tibetan name, Changtse, expresses essentially the same idea.

The history of Changtse therefore became intertwined with Everest decades before anyone seriously attempted to reach its summit.

🧗 Mallory and Irvine on Changtse

During the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine traveled onto terrain associated with Changtse while examining the northern approaches to Everest.

The mountain itself was not their objective.

Instead, climbers were studying the East Rongbuk Glacier and possible camp locations required for an Everest attempt.

This early exploration illustrates Changtse’s unusual role in mountaineering history.

Long before it became a climbing objective in its own right, the mountain served as part of the access terrain to Everest.

🧗 The 1935 Attempt

One of the earliest serious attempts on Changtse came during the 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition.

Eric Shipton, Edmund Wigram, and Bill Tilman were among the climbers who explored the mountain.

On August 21, they climbed to within approximately 460 meters, or 1,500 vertical feet, of the summit.

Deep, soft snow ultimately stopped the attempt.

At extreme Himalayan elevations, deep unconsolidated snow can make progress painfully slow while simultaneously increasing avalanche danger.

The summit remained unclimbed.

🧗 Hillary and Lowe in 1952

Changtse was examined again in 1952 by Edmund Hillary and George Lowe, accompanied by Sherpa climbers.

This took place one year before Hillary and Tenzing Norgay completed the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest from Nepal.

The group explored Changtse Glacier and reached an estimated elevation of approximately 6,600 meters (21,500 feet).

They eventually turned back after supplies ran low.

Once again, Changtse remained without a summit ascent.

🏆 The Complicated First Ascent of Changtse

The first-ascent history of Changtse is more complicated than a simple date and name.

The mountain was formally assigned to a German expedition in 1982.

But before that expedition completed its climb, Dutch mountaineer Johan Taks apparently reached the summit while participating in a separate Dutch Mount Everest expedition.

Taks did not hold permission to climb Changtse.

According to accounts from the Dutch expedition, he reached the summit on October 3, 1982.

This is generally regarded as the first known ascent of the mountain—but an unauthorized one.

🇩🇪 The First Permitted Ascent

A German expedition led jointly by Eduard Geyer and Hansjürgen Tauscher was officially authorized to climb Changtse that autumn.

The climbers established Base Camp near the terminal moraine of the Rongbuk Glacier at approximately 5,100 meters.

They followed the historic approach up the East Rongbuk Glacier toward Changtse and Everest.

Camp II was established at approximately 6,100 meters near the base of Changtse’s long northeast ridge.

The route climbed an approximately 600-meter snow-and-ice slope with some rock before continuing onto the high ridge.

Camp IV was established at approximately 6,900 meters on October 13.

🏔️ Udo Zehetleitner Reaches the Summit

On October 14, 1982, German climber Udo Zehetleitner reached Changtse’s summit.

He therefore completed the mountain’s first officially permitted ascent.

Two days later, on October 16, four more expedition members reached the summit:

Paul Braun
Rudolf Frick
Ludwig Hösle
Martin Engler

Interestingly, the original American Alpine Journal report describes these climbers collectively in connection with the “first ascent,” even though its own chronology places Zehetleitner on the summit two days before the others.

The cleanest historical interpretation is therefore:

First known ascent: Johan Taks, October 3, 1982, without a permit.

First permitted ascent: Udo Zehetleitner, October 14, 1982.

Additional first-expedition summiters: Braun, Frick, Hösle, and Engler, October 16.

🧗 Gino Casassa’s 1983 Solo Ascent

Chilean climber Gino Casassa made another remarkable ascent the following year.

Casassa was participating in an Everest expedition when high-altitude illness initially sent him back to Base Camp.

After recovering, he returned upward despite having been instructed not to climb high again.

On May 14, 1983, he left Camp II alone at approximately 3:30 a.m.

He climbed the long northeast ridge toward Changtse.

Near the summit, deep powder snow on a slope of approximately 70 degrees created serious avalanche danger.

Casassa found an alternative line on the north face and reached the summit at approximately 5:00 p.m.

He returned to Camp II around 11:00 p.m.

The ascent had not been authorized.

His own American Alpine Journal account states that he was subsequently expelled from his national mountaineering federation because of the illegal climb.

🇨🇳🇯🇵 The 1986 Chinese-Japanese Expedition

A large joint Chinese-Japanese expedition climbed Changtse in May 1986.

The expedition consisted of 17 Japanese climbers, 19 Chinese climbers, additional support staff, and members of the Chinese press.

After traveling up the Changtse Glacier, the team gained the east ridge.

On May 10, sixteen climbers reached the summit—eight Japanese and eight Chinese.

Another eight Chinese climbers reached the summit on May 11.

Among the summit climbers was Tibetan woman Gunsang, making the expedition particularly significant in the climbing history of Changtse.

🧗 Ed Webster’s Southeast Face

American climber Ed Webster opened one of the mountain’s most notable new routes in 1986.

Webster first attempted the southeast face on August 26 but encountered dangerous thin snow covering shale at approximately 23,500 feet.

He retreated.

After a rest day, he returned on August 28.

Webster climbed alone through a prominent snow gully between rock buttresses before angling across the face and joining the northeast ridge.

Because the lower gully was avalanche-prone, he deliberately climbed much of it at night, when colder conditions helped stabilize the snow.

He reached the summit and returned to Advanced Base Camp in approximately 15 hours round trip.

The ascent was the first American ascent of Changtse and a new route on the southeast face.

🇦🇺 The 1987 Australian Ascent

Australian climbers Rob Turner and Glen Nash reached the summit on September 29, 1987.

Their route followed a north-face ice line previously explored by Japanese climbers.

The ascent was far from straightforward.

The climbers encountered high winds, two avalanche incidents, and a fall into a bergschrund during the expedition.

Other members of the Australian team attempted a safer line farther east but turned back between approximately 7,100 and 7,200 meters.

Turner and Nash continued and reached the summit.

🏃 Fast Ascents in 2016

Changtse later became part of an unusual series of rapid high-altitude climbs during a 2016 Everest expedition involving Kilian Jornet, Jordi Tosas, Vivian Bruchez, and Sébastien Montaz-Rosset.

Jordi Tosas climbed Changtse via the east ridge in a round trip of approximately nine hours from camp.

Later, Kilian Jornet climbed a variation on the northeast slope before gaining the east ridge at around 7,200 meters and continuing to the summit.

His round trip took approximately 11 hours and 45 minutes.

These ascents demonstrate how differently elite acclimatized climbers can approach terrain that required multi-camp expeditions during the early climbing history of the mountain.

They do not make Changtse an easy climb.

Operating above 7,500 meters remains an extreme undertaking regardless of speed.

🥾 How Difficult Is Changtse?

Changtse is a serious expedition mountaineering objective.

Although its standard northeast/east ridge is less technically difficult than the hardest routes on Everest, the mountain presents numerous hazards.

These include:

Extreme altitude
Crevasses
Glacier travel
Avalanche terrain
Cornices
Deep snow
Steep ice
Strong winds
Extreme cold
High-altitude illness
Frostbite
Exhaustion
Difficult rescue conditions

Alternative routes on the north and southeast faces can involve significantly steeper snow and ice.

The mountain’s close relationship with the established northern Everest route may simplify access compared with more remote Tibetan peaks, but that does not reduce the seriousness of climbing above 7,500 meters.

🫁 Climbing at 7,500 Meters

Changtse rises into an elevation zone where the human body is under severe physiological stress.

Atmospheric pressure at 7,500 meters is less than half that at sea level.

The amount of oxygen available with each breath is dramatically reduced.

Climbers may experience:

Severe fatigue
Rapid breathing
Increased heart rate
Poor sleep
Appetite loss
Dehydration
Impaired judgment
Reduced coordination

More dangerous conditions include high-altitude cerebral edema and high-altitude pulmonary edema.

These conditions can become fatal if a climber does not descend quickly.

The history of Changtse includes numerous examples of climbers turning around not because of technical difficulty but because snow conditions, illness, or weather made continued ascent unsafe.

🌿 Flora and Fauna

There is effectively no conventional plant community on Changtse’s summit or upper slopes.

The highest mountain consists almost entirely of permanent snow, glacier ice, exposed rock, and periglacial terrain.

Conditions are simply too severe for normal vascular plants.

Temperatures are extremely low, soils are poorly developed or nonexistent, liquid water is scarce for much of the year, and powerful winds scour exposed slopes.

Vegetation increases dramatically at lower elevations within the wider Qomolangma region.

The enormous elevation range of the protected landscape produces ecological zones ranging from mountain forests and shrublands to alpine grasslands, periglacial terrain, and permanent snow.

🐆 Wildlife Around Changtse

The wider Qomolangma National Nature Reserve supports surprisingly diverse wildlife despite the extreme environment surrounding Everest.

Research has documented large mammals including:

Snow leopard
Blue sheep
Gray wolf
Eurasian lynx
Brown bear
Kiang
Tibetan gazelle
Himalayan tahr
Red fox

These animals do not inhabit Changtse’s 7,500-meter summit.

Instead, they occupy lower valleys, rocky ridges, shrublands, alpine grasslands, and cliffs where vegetation and prey are available.

Snow leopard habitat studies in the reserve have found particularly suitable conditions at elevations around 4,000 meters, especially where rugged terrain provides cover and prey.

🐏 Blue Sheep and Snow Leopards

One of the most important animals in the high Himalayan food web is the blue sheep, or bharal.

Blue sheep are well adapted to steep, rocky terrain and high-altitude grasslands.

They are also among the principal prey species of snow leopards.

The protected landscape around Everest therefore supports an ecological system very different from what exists only a few vertical kilometers higher on Changtse.

Below are grasslands, shrubs, herbivores, predators, birds, and other wildlife.

Above is a world increasingly dominated by rock and ice.

🌊 Changtse and the Himalayan Watershed

Snow and ice accumulating on Changtse eventually feed some of Asia’s great river systems.

Peakbagger places the mountain within the drainage basin of the:

Arun River
Kosi River
Ganges
Bay of Bengal

Although Changtse lies in China, water does not follow political boundaries.

Meltwater from the high Everest region ultimately moves through an enormous network of Himalayan rivers before reaching the plains of South Asia and eventually the Indian Ocean.

🌏 Why Is Changtse So Little Known?

Changtse’s obscurity seems almost impossible when its elevation is considered.

At around 7,543 meters, it is higher than every mountain in:

North America
South America
Europe
Africa
Antarctica
Oceania

Yet it is vastly less famous than many peaks only half its height.

The explanation is simple.

It stands next to Mount Everest.

Not merely in the same mountain range, but immediately beside it.

Changtse is connected directly to Everest through the North Col, and its topographic prominence is less than 500 meters.

As a result, geography treats Changtse partly as a subsidiary mountain of Everest even though its summit reaches more than seven and a half kilometers above sea level.

Its name captures that relationship perfectly.

Changtse—the North Peak—stands as Everest’s enormous northern companion.

💡 Changtse Fun Facts

Changtse means “North Peak” in Tibetan.
The mountain stands immediately north of Mount Everest.
It is located entirely within Tibet, China.
Changtse is connected to Everest by the North Col.
A commonly cited elevation is 7,543 meters (24,747 feet).
Peakbagger currently uses an elevation of 7,553 meters.
Published elevations have varied by more than 60 meters.
Peakbagger gives Changtse approximately 497 meters of prominence.
Its parent peak is Mount Everest.
Its Nearest Higher Neighbor is also Mount Everest.
The mountain lies between the Main Rongbuk and East Rongbuk glaciers.
Early Everest expeditions repeatedly explored Changtse’s lower slopes.
Eric Shipton, Bill Tilman, and Edmund Wigram attempted the mountain in 1935.
Edmund Hillary and George Lowe explored Changtse in 1952.
Johan Taks made the first known summit ascent on October 3, 1982, without a permit.
Udo Zehetleitner made the first permitted ascent on October 14, 1982.
Four more members of the German expedition summited on October 16.
Gino Casassa made an unauthorized solo ascent in 1983.
A Chinese-Japanese expedition placed 24 climbers on the summit over May 10–11, 1986.
Ed Webster established a new southeast-face route solo in August 1986.
Webster deliberately climbed the avalanche-prone lower face at night.
Australian climbers Rob Turner and Glen Nash summited in September 1987.
Kilian Jornet and Jordi Tosas made rapid ascents of Changtse during a 2016 Everest expedition.
Changtse is one of the highest mountains in the world to possess less than 500 meters of prominence.

❓ Changtse FAQ

How high is Changtse?

A commonly cited modern elevation for Changtse is 7,543 meters (24,747 feet). Peakbagger currently lists 7,553 meters, and other mountaineering sources use slightly different measurements.

Where is Changtse?

Changtse lies in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China immediately north of Mount Everest.

What does Changtse mean?

The Tibetan name means “North Peak,” referring to the mountain’s position north of Everest.

What mountain range is Changtse in?

Changtse belongs to the Mahalangur Himal, a subrange of the Himalayas containing Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, and numerous other major peaks.

Is Changtse part of Mount Everest?

Changtse is a separate named summit but is topographically closely connected to Everest. It is joined to Everest by the North Col and has only about 500 meters of prominence.

What is Changtse’s Nearest Higher Neighbor?

The Nearest Higher Neighbor (NHN) is Mount Everest.

What is Changtse’s parent peak?

Its topographic parent is Mount Everest.

What is the North Col?

The North Col is the high mountain pass connecting Changtse with Mount Everest. It forms a crucial part of Everest’s traditional northern climbing route from Tibet.

Who first climbed Changtse?

Dutch mountaineer Johan Taks made the first known ascent on October 3, 1982, but he did not have permission to climb the mountain.

Who made the first official ascent of Changtse?

German climber Udo Zehetleitner reached the summit on October 14, 1982, completing the first permitted ascent. Paul Braun, Rudolf Frick, Ludwig Hösle, and Martin Engler followed on October 16.

What was the first-ascent route?

The German expedition climbed from the Changtse and East Rongbuk glacier area onto the mountain’s long northeast/east ridge.

Has Changtse been climbed solo?

Yes. Gino Casassa climbed it solo in 1983, although without authorization. Ed Webster made another major solo ascent in 1986, establishing a new route on the southeast face.

Did Ed Webster climb Changtse?

Yes. Webster climbed a new route on the southeast face on August 28, 1986, before joining the northeast ridge and continuing to the summit.

Has Kilian Jornet climbed Changtse?

Yes. Jornet climbed Changtse during his 2016 Everest expedition, using a northeast-face variation to reach the east ridge before continuing to the summit.

Is Changtse higher than Nuptse?

No. Nuptse’s main summit reaches approximately 7,861 meters, making it more than 300 meters higher than Changtse.

Is Changtse higher than every mountain outside Asia?

Yes. At more than 7,500 meters, Changtse is considerably higher than the highest mountains of every other continent.

Can you hike Changtse?

No. Changtse is an extreme high-altitude mountaineering objective requiring glacier travel, snow and ice climbing, acclimatization, specialized equipment, permits, expedition support, and advanced mountaineering experience.

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