page_title: Kangshung Glacier
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Kangshung Glacier / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Mount Everest from space, with local features annotated.
context_page_description: The Kangshung Glacier is one of the three main glaciers of Mount Everest, and is in the Tibet region Himalayas, within the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The other two are the Khumbu Glacier and Rongbuk Glacier.
context_section_description: The Kangshung Glacier's accumulation areas lie on the three main faces of Everest. The Kangshung Glacier is located on the eastern side of the world's highest mountain in the government district of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
  The common eastern face of Everest and Lhotse is called the Kangshung Face. Here, the Kangshung Glacier is fed and then becomes the Kama Chu river to flow through the Kama valley towards the east. South of the glacier and east of Lhotse lie the Pethangtse (6738 m), and the massif of the Makalu (8463 m) with its neighbouring peaks of Makalu II (7678 m − also called Kangshungtse) and Chomo Lonzo  (7818 m), whose imposing north face hides the view of the main Makalu summit. The border between Nepal and China runs over this summit.
caption: The east Kangshung Face of Everest (centre) and Lhotse (left). Kangshung Glacier in lower foreground.
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