North Face (Everest)

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| Standard route from north, mainly identical with Mallory's route in 1924; high camps on c.7700 m and 8300 m (indicated by two triangles), present day camp on 8300 m is located a bit further west (for general reference, the route's topographic map and elevation profile can be found [https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Everest%20Base%20Camp%20(Tibet%20side)%2C%20Tashi%20Dzom%2C%20China&point=Mount%20Everest%2C%20Khumjung%2C%20Nepal&locale=en-US&vehicle=hike&weighting=fastest&elevation=true&use_miles=false&layer=TF%20Outdoors here]).

| Zakharov Couloir.

| Messner's traverse from north ridge to Norton Couloir in 1980 ("Everest Solo by Fair Means") w/o O₂.

| Great Couloir or Norton Couloir.

| Complete northeast ridge with Three Pinnacles; Japanese route to the top. Climbed before by Russell Brice & Comp., but only the purple-marked part of the ridge, without going to the summit; descent via standard route.

| American 1963, "The West Ridge" on the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition.

| Yugoslavian route, 1979.

| Hornbein Couloir.

| Resting place of Mallory's body, discovered in 1999 (graveyard with more than 15 bodies, according to Conrad Anker).

| 1st Step, resting place of Francys Arsentiev, "Green Boots", David Sharp.

| 2nd Pinnacle, resting place of Peter Boardman (+1982) in 1992.

| 2nd step, base at 8605 m, c.30 m high, (difficulty: 5–9/10).

| Point at ca. 8321 m, reached by George Ingle Finch with supplementary oxygen in 1922.

| Point at 8572.8 m on the western side of the Couloir, reached by Edward Felix Norton 1924 without supplementary oxygen (Norton preferred climbing the wall rather than climbing the ridge).

| Area left out by the Yugoslavian party on their "complete West Ridge" ascent in 1979.

| Difficult area that forced Americans, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, to traverse from the west ridge to the north face in 1963.

| Changtse is in the foreground