NEPAL

NEPAL / नेपाल

Tourism.
Mount Cho-oyu.
Third stamp in a set of 3, issued on 30.12.1983.
Face value: 6 Nepalese rupee.
Design: M. N. Rana.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 437.
- Scott No. 419.
- StampWorld No. 433.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 441.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 407.

Cho-oyu (Nepali: चोयु; Tibetan: ཇོ་བོ་དབུ་ཡ; Chinese: 卓奥友峰) is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at 8,188 meters (26,864 ft) above sea level. It is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalayas 20 km west of Mount Everest. The mountain stands on the China–Nepal border. The northern and southern slopes of the mountain are part, respectively, of the Qomolangma Nature Reserve (Tibet) and the Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal). The mountain was first climbed on October 19, 1954, via the north-west ridge, by Herbert Tichy, Sepp Jöchler and Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama of an Austrian expedition.