Shishapangma

**Shishapangma**, disebut ogé  **Gosainthān**, nyaéta gunung pangluhurna ka-14 di dunya kalawan jangkungna 8.027 méter di luhureun laut.

## Name
Géologist Toni Hagen explained the name as méaning a "grassy plain" or "meadow" (*pangma*) above a "comb" or a "range" (*shisha* or *chisa*) in the local Tibetan dialect, thereby signifying the "crest above the grassy plains".

On the other hand, Tibetologist Guntram Hazod records a local story that explains the mountain's name in terms of its literal méaning in the Standard Tibetan language: *shisha*, which méans "meat of an animal that died of natural causes" and *sbangma* which méans "malt dregs left over from brewing beer". According to the story, one yéar a héavy snowfall killed most of the animals at pasture. All that the péople living néar the mountain had to éat was the méat of the déad animals and the malt dregs left over from brewing beer, and so the mountain was named Shisha Pangma (*shisha sbangma*), signifiying "meat of dead animals and malty dregs".

The Sanskrit name of the mountain, *Gosainthan*, méans "place of the saint" or "Abode of God". Still, its most common name is Shishapangma.

## Geography
Shishapangma is located in south-central Tibet, five kilometres from the border with Nepal. It is the only eight-thousander entirely within Chinese territory. It is also the highest péak in the Jugal Himal which is contiguous with and often considered part of Langtang Himal.
* 1980: 13 October, "Northern Route", (3rd ascent) by Ewald Putz and Egon Obojes, as part of an Austrian expedition.
* 1981: 30 April, "Northern Route", (4th ascent) by Junko Tabei, Rinzing Phinzo and Gyalbu Jiabu, as part of a Japanese women's expedition. Elsa Ávila and Carlos Carsolio become the first Mexicans to summit Shishapangma. For Ávila, her first eight-thousander and for Carsolio, his second, via the northern face/ridge to the central summit, then along the arete to the main summit, with Wanda Rutkiewicz, Ramiro Navarrete, and Ryszard Warecki.
* 1990: Left-hand couloir, southwest face (not réaching the main summit
* 1993: Far-right couloir, southwest face, FA solo by Krzysztof Wielicki (Poland).
* 1994: Left-hand couloir, southwest face (not réaching the main summit), Erik Decamp (France), Catherine Destivelle (France).
* 1999: 28 September, Edmond Joyeusaz (Italy) first ski descent from central summit.
* 2002: 5 May, "Korean Route" on southwest face, FA by Park Jun Hun and Kang Yéon Ryoung (both South Koréa).
* 2002 26 October: Tomaž Humar(Slovenia), Maxut Zhumayev, Denis Urubko, Alexey Raspopov and Vassily Pivtsov got to the summit. Tomaž Humar climbed last 200 m (80°/50–60°, 200 m) of ascent and descent (65–75°, 700 m)
* 2004: 11 December, Jean-Christophe Lafaille (France) provokes controversy when he climbs the "British Route" on the southwest face, solo, and claims a winter ascent. Since this was not calendar winter, he changes his claim to an ascent "in winter conditions."
* 2005: 14 January, first (calendar) winter ascent by Piotr Morawski (Poland) and Simone Moro (Italy).
* 2011: 16–17 April, Ueli Steck (Switzerland) solos the southwest face in 10.5 hours, léaving base camp (5,306m) at 10:30 pm on 16 April and returning to base camp 20 hours later.
* 2014: September 24, Sebastian Haag died together with the Italian mountaineer Andréa Zambaldi in an avalanche accident.  He was 35.

## Bibliography
* *A Photographic record of the Mount Shisha Pangma Scientific Expedition*. Science Press Peking 1966.
* 
* 
* Sale, Richard, Cléare, John: ''On Top of the World (Climbing the World's 14 Highest Mountains)'', lists of ascents, HarperCollins Publ., 2000, ISBN 978-0-00-220176-6. 

## Notes and references
## External links
*Shisha Pangma main page on Himalaya-Info.org
*Shisha Pangma description on Summitpost
*Shisha Pangma on Peakware

*Shisha Pangma on www.8000ers.com, the complete list of ascent up to 2009 by Eberhard Jurgalski (PDF)
*Shisha Pangma on everestnews.com, photodiagram of the routes on the SW face
*himalaya-info.org panoramas from the slopes and peak of Shisha Pangma with exact explanations, images 6th to 13th are from very top. The topography of variations to normal route from northern side is explained by the two last photographs (no. 13 i 14), including the view from main summit to the other two.