Squaw Valley, CA Resident Aiming to Make First Ever Ski Descent of Lhotse, World’s 5th Highest Mountain A group of four Americans have announced plans to try to ski the world’s 5th highest mountain, Lhotse which summits at 27,940-feet (8,516m) and is close to Mt Everest in the Himalayas. Parts of Lhotse, one of the world’s 14 peaks above 8,000m (26,247-feet), have been skied already, but no one has made the full top to bottom descent reports snow-forecast. […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 14, 2018 0 Comments