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Kunde and Khumjung with rock slide deposit |
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The villages of Kunde (left side) and Khumjung (right centre) have been built on a huge ancient rock slide. Part of the rock slide deposit can be seen in the right portion of the photo. Mt. Everest (8848 m), Lhotse (8516 m), and Ama Dablam (6812 m) appear in the background in NE direction.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Monday 12 November 2012 by Martin Mergili
- Keywords
- cultural landscape, eight-thousander, glacial processes, landslide, landslide deposit, mountainscape, mountaintop, non-tropical montane forest, rock avalanche, snowscape, villagescape, Zonobiome VII
- Visits and license
- 15458 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license