Gokyo is a small village in Solukhumbu District in the of Nepal, at the foot of Gokyo Ri, located on the eastern shore of the third Gokyo Lakes, Dudh Pokhari. To the southeast is the village of Chharchung. Gokyo is best viewed on Google Earth at .
Located at an elevation of , the village is one of the highest settlements in Nepal and in the world. Almost all the buildings are guest houses for trekkers. The people who live in the village leave during the winter and move to other (lower) villages, or Kathmandu.
In 1995, an avalanche killed 42 people, including 17 foreign nationals (13 Japanese, two Canadians, one Irish woman and a German). A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal had resulted in of snow being dumped into the mountains during the previous week, significantly increasing the avalanche hazard.
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