# Pangboche

_Village in Solukhumbu District, Nepal_

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Last updated: 2026-10-31

> Pangboche or Panboche is a village in Khumjung Village Development Committee of Solukhumbu District in Province No. 1 of Nepal at an altitude of 13,074 feet (3,985 m). It is located high in the Himalayas in the Imja Khole valley, about 3 kilometres northeast of Tengboche and is a base camp for climbing the nearby Ama Dablam and trekking. It contains a monastery, famed for its purported yeti scalp and hand, the latter of which was stolen. The village is inhabited mainly by Sherpas, and Sungdare Sherpa, a native of the village, held the record for summiting Everest five times in the Sherpa climbing history and in the world history of mountaineering in 1989. The Pangboche school was built by Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Trust in 1963. North of the village is the Dughla lake and pass.

## Quick facts

- **Type:** village ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7130918#P31))
- **Located in:** Khumbu Pasanglhamu (rural municipality of Nepal) › Solukhumbu District (district of Nepal) › Koshi Province (province of Nepal) ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7130918#P131))
- **Elevation:** 3,985 m ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7130918#P2044))
- **Coordinates:** 27.8564, 86.7897

## Questions

**Where is Pangboche located?**  
Pangboche is located in Khumbu Pasanglhamu, Solukhumbu District, Koshi Province, Nepal.

**What is the elevation of Pangboche?**  
Pangboche is at an elevation of 3,985 m above sea level.

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## Sources

- [Wikipedia (English): Pangboche](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangboche) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- [Wikidata item Q7130918](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7130918) — [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- [Image: Pangboche.JPG by Moralist (CC BY-SA 3.0)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pangboche.JPG)

## Licence and attribution

Text from the Wikipedia article Pangboche, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Pangboche.JPG — Moralist, CC BY-SA 3.0.

## Cite this page

"Pangboche". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/pangboche. Retrieved 3 November 2026.