Map. Full-color lithograph. Sheet measures 22 1/2" x 36" Incredibly detailed topographical map of Mount Everest issued in 1988 by the National Geographic Society in a joint research effort with the Boston Museum of Science with the support of His Majesty's Government of Nepal, and the National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping the People's Republic of China. Extensively labeled, the map shows stone walls, shelters, and houses, trails, ruins, lakes, rivers, crevasses, moraines, rocks, screes, sparce vegetation areas, depressions, forest, low forest, and bushes. Spot heights are indicated. Chinese and Nepali place names are used throughout. Verso features a computer-generated landscape portrait of the surrounding region, colored to indicate land cover. An impressive map exemplifying an international cartographic effort.

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Title

Mount Everest / Sagarmatha / Qomolangma

Publisher

National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.

Publication Date

1988

Binding

unbound

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Benjamin Lowry
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