Often called the "Valley of Silence," the Western Cwm is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face. The central section is cut by massive ...

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Professor Duncan Quincey will lead an expedition to Mount Everest, where the scientists will be camping on ice in nighttime ...

We can also make out a large periglacial landslide below it. There's a clue to the glacial past of this area in the name Cwm as in Cwm Idwal. It's the welsh word for corrie, and a corrie is a ...

Once settled on the glacier, the team will be camping on ice ... sub-freezing air temperatures high up within Everest's Western Cwm, but the possibility needs to be investigated and measured.

Once settled on the glacier, the team will be camping on ice with nighttime ... could be melting at sub-freezing air temperatures high up within Everest’s Western Cwm, but the possibility needs to be ...

Once settled on the glacier, the team will be camping on ice ... sub-freezing air temperatures high up within Everest's Western Cwm, but the possibility needs to be investigated and measured.