Norgay Montes
A mountain range on Pluto named in honor of Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two individuals to reach the summit of Mount Everest. These mountains rise up to 3,500 meters (11,000 feet) and were discovered by the New Horizons mission.
Source: jpl.nasa.gov
APODs including "Norgay Montes"
Pluto at Night
09/06/2016
The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. The spacebased view with the Sun behind the distant world was captured by New Horizons last July. The spacecraft was at a range of over 21,000 kilometers, about 19 minutes after its closest approach. A denizen of the Kuiper Belt in dramatic silhouette, the image also reveals Pluto's tenuous, surprisingly complex layers of hazy atmosphere. The crescent twilight landscape near the top of the frame includes southern areas of nitrogen ice plains informally known as Sputnik Planum and rugged mountains of water-ice in the Norgay Montes.