First Winter Ascent of Everest

Date: February 17, 1980 • Location: Lobujya, Nepal

First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.

Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. Its height was most recently measured in 2020 through a joint survey by Nepalese and Chinese authorities as 8,848.86 m.