The Rongpo Glacier is located in a wide, open area at the foot of Qomolangma(Mount Everest), extending between 5,300 and 6,300 meters above sea level. Consisting of two big glaciers, the Western Rongpo and Central Rongpo, it has a total length of 22,4 kilometers and covers a total area of 85.4 square kilometers. The largest glacier in the Qomolangma Nature Reserve, it is also the world's most completely developed and best preserved form of valley glacier.

The Rongpo Glacier is one of the most magnificent sights in Tibet. Its ice lobe has an average width of l.4 kilometers and an average depth of l20 meters, reaching over 300 meters deep at certain points. Looking southward from the glacier, Qomolangma appears as a gigantic pyramid standing above all the other mountains, while the two branches of the Rongpo Glacier look like a huge tree, holding the peak on its top.

The Rongpo Glacier has many bowl-shaped cirques and hanging glaciers. It boasts a great number of glacial lakes, ice cliffs, ice caves and crevasses, presenting marvelous and unique sights. Mountaineers have called it the world's largest "alpine parks." The action of three natural elements On the northern Side of the Qomolangma, namely low latitude, arid climate and high elevation, have helped create the world wonder of the high altitude continental Rongpo Glacier and its serac ice forest. According to glaciologists, the serac ice forests of the Qomolangma and Gasherbrum areas are the most magnificent in the world.

Standing surrounded by these crystal towers in every size, shape and pose-great sculptures made by nature, it is like being in a fairyland palace of jade.

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