Southwest China
Everest Base Camp (North, Tibet)
珠峰大本营 · Tibet, Shigatse
The Tibetan (north) side base camp beneath the world's highest peak, at 5,200 metres.
The north Everest Base Camp in Tibet offers one of the planet's great mountain views: the full north face of Mount Everest (Qomolangma, 8,849 m) rising above the high Rongbuk valley. Visitors reach a tent-camp and viewpoint by road from Shigatse, often at dawn when the peak turns gold, with the Rongbuk Monastery, the world's highest, on the approach.
Everest is the world's highest mountain, first climbed in 1953; the north (Tibetan) route via the Rongbuk glacier saw major Chinese expeditions from the 1960s. The base camp area is a protected tourism zone in Qomolangma National Nature Reserve, with strict access managed for conservation and altitude safety rather than as a conventional scenic-ticket site.
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