Kangshung Face

On the right, great contorted cornices, overhanging masses of snow and ice, stuck out like twisted fingers over the 10,000-foot drop of the Kangshung Face. Any move on to these cornices could only bring disaster.

1953, Edmund Hillary, “The Summit”, in The Ascent of Everest, Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC, page 202

For the Vaseline Intensive Care line of lotions, he helped create a campaign centering on a 1994 expedition to climb Mount Everest; a television commercial, a newspaper coupon insert and a direct-mail brochure all hailed Sandy Hill Pittman's efforts to become the first American woman to climb the mountain's Kangshung Face.

1995 March 7, Stuart Elliott, “THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; In the artificial world of Madison Avenue, a few campaigns dare to embrace reality in their pitches.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Business

I don’t know whether someone will go to the North Face this year. There you can find pure loneliness. In the base camp, you are only joined by snow grouses. Otherwise, it is extremely quiet, and you have the view of the North Face. You won’t meet anyone at the Kangshung Face too.

2015 February 14, “Kaltenbrunner: “All Everest parties around one table!””, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023

Unable to see, they lost their bearings in the dark. The wind edged them to the lip of a 7,000ft drop down the Kangshung Face. “One mis-step here and it was a one-way ticket to Tibet,” Fox said.

2018 June 21, “Charlotte Fox obituary”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2018, Obituary