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Nuptse or Nubtse ( Sherpa :    , Wylie : Nub rtse ) is a ___MASK100___ in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal , in the Nepalese Himalayas . It lies two kilometres WSW of ___MASK11___ . Nubtse is Tibetan for " west peak ", as it is the western segment of the Lhotse - Nubtse massif . Lhotse ( Nepali :        ) is the fourth highest ___MASK100___ in the world at , after ___MASK11___ , K2 , and Kangchenjunga . Part of the Everest " massif ", Lhotse is connected to the latter peak via the South Col . Lhotse means  South Peak  in Tibetan . In addition to the main summit at above sea level , the ___MASK100___ comprises the smaller peaks Lhotse Middle ( East ) at , and Lhotse Shar at . The summit is on the border between China , Tibet and the Khumbu region of Nepal . Good faith , in human interactions , is a sincere intention to be fair , open , and honest , regardless of the outcome of the interaction . While some Latin phrases lose their literal meaning over centuries , this is not the case with " bona fides "; it is still widely used and interchangeable with its generally accepted modern day translation of " good faith ". It is an important concept within ___MASK8___ , philosophy , and business . The opposed concepts are bad faith , " mala fides " ( duplicity ) and perfidy ( pretense ). In contemporary English , the usage of " bona fides " ( note the " s ") is synonymous with credentials and identity . The phrase is sometimes used in job advertisements , and should not be confused with the " bona fide " occupational qualifications or the employer ' s good faith effort , as described below . Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mt . Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling non - ___MASK32___ book written by Jon Krakauer . It details the author ' s presence at ___MASK11___ during the 1996 ___MASK11___ disaster , when eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a `` rogue storm '' . The author ' s expedition was led by the famed guide Rob Hall , and there were other groups trying to summit on the same day , including one led by Scott Fischer , whose guiding agency , Mountain Madness , was perceived as a competitor to Rob Hall ' s agency , Adventure Consultants . In ___MASK6___ , a massif ( or ) is a section of a planet ' s crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures . In the movement of the crust , a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole . The term is also used to refer to a group of mountains formed by such a structure . Changtse ( Tibetan : " north peak ") is a ___MASK100___ situated between the Main Rongbuk and East Rongbuk Glaciers in Tibet , China , immediately north of ___MASK11___ . It is connected to ___MASK11___ via the North Col . Jon Krakauer ( born April 12 , 1954 ) is an American ___MASK62___ and mountaineer , primarily known for his writings about the outdoors , especially ___MASK100___ - ___MASK93___ . He is the author of best - selling non - fiction books " Into the Wild ", " Into Thin Air ", " Under the Banner of Heaven ", and "" as well as numerous magazine articles . He was a member of an ill - fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996 , one of the deadliest disasters in the history of ___MASK93___ Everest . The 1996 ___MASK11___ disaster occurred on 10  11 May 1996 , when eight people caught in a blizzard died on ___MASK11___ during attempts to ascend to or descend from the summit . Over the entire season , 12 people died trying to reach the summit , making it the deadliest day and year on ___MASK11___ prior to the 16 fatalities of the 2014 ___MASK11___ avalanche and the 18 deaths resulting from avalanches caused by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake . The 1996 disaster gained wide publicity and raised questions about the commercialization of Everest . Edmund Viesturs ( born June 22 , 1959 ) is a high - altitude mountaineer and corporate speaker . He is the only American to have climbed all 14 of the world ' s eight - thousander ___MASK100___ peaks , and the fifth person to do so without using supplemental oxygen . Along with Apa Sherpa , he has summitted peaks of over 8 , 000 meters on 21 occasions , including ___MASK11___ seven times ; only four other climbers , Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa , Juanito Oiarzabal , Namgyal Sherpa , and Ang Dorje Sherpa , have more high - altitude ascents . Tibet ( Tibetan Pinyin : " boe ", ; / i t  s¹ /) is a region on the Tibetan Plateau in Asia . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa , Qiang , and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people . Tibet is the highest region on Earth , with an average elevation of . The highest elevation in Tibet is ___MASK11___ , Earth ' s highest mountain , rising 8 , 848 m ( 29 , 029 ft ) above sea level . ___MASK11___ , also known in Nepal as Sagarmth and in China as Chomolungma /  , is earth ' s highest mountain . Its peak is above sea level . ___MASK11___ is in the Mahalangur Range . The international border between China ( Tibet Autonomous Region ) and Nepal runs across Everest ' s summit point . Its massif includes neighbouring peaks Lhotse , ; Nuptse , , and Changtse , . Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal , is a landlocked central Himalayan country in South Asia . It has a population of 26 . 4 million and is the 93rd largest country by area . Bordering China in the north and ___MASK91___ in the south , east , and west , it is the largest sovereign Himalayan state . Nepal does not ___MASK83___ Bangladesh , which is located within only 27 km ( 17 mi ) of its southeastern tip . It neither borders Bhutan due to the Indian state of Sikkim being located in between . Nepal has a diverse geography , including fertile plains , subalpine forested hills , and eight of the world ' s ten tallest mountains , including ___MASK11___ , the highest point on Earth . Kathmandu is the nation ' s capital and largest city . It is a multiethnic nation with Nepali as the official language . ___MASK32___ is the classification for any story or universe derived from imagination  in other words , not based strictly on history or fact . ___MASK32___ can be expressed in a variety of formats , including writings , live performances , films , television programs , animations , video games , and role - playing games , though the term originally and most commonly refers to the narrative forms of literature ( see " literary " ___MASK32___ ), including the novel , novella , short story , and play . ___MASK32___ constitutes an act of creative invention , so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed ; in other words , ___MASK32___ is not expected to present only characters who are actual people or descriptions that are factually true . The context of ___MASK32___ is generally open to interpretation , due to ___MASK32___ ' s freedom from any necessary embedding in reality ; however , some fictional works are claimed to be , or marketed as , historically or factually accurate , complicating the traditional distinction between ___MASK32___ and non - ___MASK32___ . ___MASK32___ is a classification or category , rather than a specific mode or genre , unless used in a narrower sense as a synonym for a particular literary ___MASK32___ form . Prose is a form of ___MASK97___ that exhibits a grammatical structure and a natural flow of speech , rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry . Where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme , the common unit of prose is purely grammatical , such as a sentence or paragraph . Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith is a nonfiction book by best - selling author Jon Krakauer , first published in ___MASK79___ 2003 . He investigated and juxtaposed two histories : the origin and evolution of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints ( LDS Church ), and a modern double ___MASK30___ committed in the name of God by brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty , who subscribed to a fundamentalist version of Mormonism . Earth , otherwise known as the world , is the third planet from the ___MASK25___ and the only object in the Universe known to harbor ___MASK75___ . It is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest of the four terrestrial planets . Scott Eugene Fischer ( December 24 , 1955  May 11 , 1996 ) was an American mountaineer and ___MASK100___ guide . He was renowned for his ascents of the world ' s highest mountains made without the use of supplemental oxygen . Fischer and Wally Berg were the first Americans to summit Lhotse ( 27 , 940 feet / 8516 m ), the world ' s fourth highest peak . Fischer and Ed Viesturs were the first Americans to summit K2 ( 28 , 251 feet / 8611m ) without supplemental oxygen . Fischer first climbed ___MASK11___ ( 29 , 029 feet / 8 , 848 m ) in 1994 and later died during the 1996 blizzard on Everest while descending from the peak . ___MASK100___ guides are specially trained and experienced mountaineers and professionals who are certified by a ___MASK100___ guide association , affiliated to the International Federation of ___MASK100___ Guides Associations ( IFMGA in English ). They are considered to be high - level experts in ___MASK40___ , and are hired to instruct or lead individuals or small groups who require this advanced expertise . Non - ___MASK32___ or nonfiction is content ( sometimes , in the form of a story ) whose creator , in good faith , assumes responsibility for the truth or accuracy of the events , people , and / or information presented . In contrast , a story whose creator explicitly leaves open if and how the work refers to reality is usually classified as ___MASK32___ . Nonfiction , which may be presented either objectively or subjectively , is traditionally one of the two main divisions of narratives ( and , specifically , prose ___MASK51___ ), the other traditional division being ___MASK32___ , which contrasts with nonfiction by dealing in information , events , and characters expected to be partly or largely imaginary . K2 , also known as Mount Godwin - Austen or Chhogori ( Balti :  ), is the second highest ___MASK100___ in the world , after ___MASK11___ , at above sea level . It is located on the China - Pakistan border between Baltistan , in the Gilgit  Baltistan region of northern Pakistan , and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang , China . K2 is the highest point of the Karakoram range and the highest point in both Pakistan and Xinjiang . A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 35 mph ( 56 km / h ) and lasting for a prolonged period of ___MASK20___  typically three hours or more . A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow is not falling but loose snow on the ground is lifted and blown by strong winds . Definition . In the United States , the National Weather Service defines a blizzard as a severe snowstorm characterized by strong winds causing blowing snow that results in low visibilities . The difference between a blizzard and a snowstorm is the strength of the wind , not the amount of snow . To be a blizzard , a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to or less and must last for a prolonged period of ___MASK20___  typically three hours or more . Robert Edwin " Rob " Hall ( 14 January 1961  11 May 1996 ) was a ___MASK96___ mountaineer best known for being the head guide of a 1996 ___MASK11___ expedition in which he , a fellow guide , and two clients perished . A best - selling account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer ' s " Into Thin Air ", and the expedition has been dramatised in the 2015 ___MASK60___ " Everest ".