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Xegar (aka as new Tingri, or Shekar) at 14268 feet is a very small town and closest town to the checkpoint to the Mt Everest region. So its importance is its role as the gateway to Mt Everest base camp, or more generally the Chomalungma Nature Reserve which includes Mt Everest. Historically this has also been the jump off point for the climbing expeditions. The town does have electricity, which is not always true of towns in Tibet.

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Sakya, Shegar and first sighting of Mt Everest
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Sep 21, 2007 – Oct 12, 2007
We left Xigaze for Xegar (Shegar or Shekar, also known as the new Tingri probably because it's the top political town in Tingri prefecture) today. Our drive took us further west and to more unpaved roads. There were occasional small villages and we stopped when we saw a farmer plowing the field wit…
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This trip was featured on Saturday October 27th, 2007

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