Rongbuk Monastery: It was founded in 1902; this largest monastery of the region once had over 500 monks and nuns.  It is located at the foot of the Rongbuk Glacier, near Mt. Everest’s North face Base Camp.  A couple of centuries before the complex was built, a small group of nuns in meditation huts braved the severe conditions regularly experienced at the sobering altitude of 4980m.  By 1940 the year of Ngawang Tenzin Norbu death, he had established seven chapels at the Rongbuk complex, four Sherpa monasteries near Tingri.

Hotels:

• Everest View Hotel
• Monastery Guesthouse