Photos of from Shigatse to Qomolangma National Nature Reserve, Tibet

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From Shigatse to Qomolangma National Nature Reserve

An excellent road, National Highway 318 (also named the Friendship Highway), leads west from Shigatse to Sa’Gya county and the town of Gêding and, 98 kilometres west of Shigatse in Lhatse county, to a memorial indicating one has reached a point 5,000 kilometres from Shanghai. The road rises to an altitude of over 4,000 metres above sea level, where it crosses the Peta Pass, with masses of prayer flags, as on every auspicious location. It is the gateway to Qomolangma National Nature Reserve. Qomolangma is the Tibetan name for Mount Everest.

Everest International Mountaineering Centre
 
Town gate at Shangmu
 
Surveillance cameras
 
On the road at Sa'Gya
 
On the road at Sa'Gya
 
On the road at Sa'Gya
 
The town of Jiding,
 
Memorial 5000 km
 
Peta Pass view
 
Prayer flags, Peta Pass
 
Peta Pass view
 
House, Lhatse County
 
Quxar, Lhatse County
 
Mountain landscape, Lhatse County
 
Gate Qomolangma National Nature Reserve
 
Prayer flags, Gyatso La Pass
 
Himalayan view, Gyatso La Pass
 
Prayer flags, Gyatso La Pass
 
Yak and a sign
 
River in Tingri County
 
Village in Tingri County
 
Road to Zangmu
 
Father and son
 
Village view
 
Village, Tingri county
 
Village, Tingri county
 
Prayer flags, Guywula Pass
 
Tibetan man , Guywula Pass
 
Prayer flags, Guywula Pass
 
Prayer flags, Guywula Pass
 
View of the Himalayas
 
Prayer flags, Guywula Pass
 
View of the Himalayas
 
Tunnel in the road
 
Tunnel in the road
 
Tunnel in the road
 

The new town of Quxar in Lhatse County is 150 kilometres west of Shigatse. Further on, an ornamental gate announces entering Qomolangma National Nature Reserve and the road rises to the Gyatso La Pass, at 5,255 metres above sea level, 180 kilometres west of Shigatse. Here too, masses of prayer flags and views to the snow-topped Himalayas.

The road enters Tingri County and, passing the small town of Shelkar, a turnoff to the south leads to Guywula Pass at 5,206 metres above sea level, with prayer flags and spectacular mountain views. This road leads to the Everest Base Camp, at the foot of Qomolongma - Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak in the world.