At 8,013 meters, Mount Shishapangma is renowned as the fourteenth-highest mountain in the world. The Shishapangma is located in south-central Tibet, 5 kilometers from the border with Nepal. Since Shishapangma is on the north side of the Himalayan crest and further from the lower terrain of Nepal, it has less dramatic vertical relief than most major Himalayan peaks.

In Tibetan, "Shisha" means a "comb" or a "range" while "pangma" means "grassy plain" or "meadow". Therefore, Shishapangma means a "comb" or a "range" above a "grassy plain" or "meadow". Besides, "Shisha" also means "meat of an animal that died of natural causes"; and "pangma" means "malt dregs left over from brewing beer" in Tibetan dialect.

According to the story, one year a heavy snowfall killed most of the animals in the pasture, and all that the people living near the mountain had to eat was the meat of the dead animals and the malt dregs left over from brewing beer, and so the mountain was named Shishapangma, signifying "meat of dead animals and malty dregs".

Mount Shishapangma is 120 kilometers away from Mount Everest, it consists of three peaks. To the southwest of the main peak, which is 8012 meters high, there are two relatively lower peaks, one is 8008 meters high, and the other is 7966 meters high. Most of the perpetual snow and large-scale continental glaciers in the Himalayas were located in Mount Shishapangma and its surroundings. The covering area of snow and glaciers in the mountain reaches amazingly 6000 square kilometers.

The 13.5-kilometer-long Yebocangjiale Glacier stretches along the north ridge of Mount Shishapangma, and the Quda Glacier lies parallel to it. To the east of the north ridge, there is the Geya Glacier. Along the south ridge of the mountain, there are also many glaciers, for example, the 16-kilometer-long Fuqu Glacier. The glacier extends all the way down to the scrubland on the mountainside.

The most attractive scenery in the mountain is the ice tower forest. It lasts from 5000 to 5800 meters above sea level on the mountain. The glaciers here adopt various elegant forms by the power of nature, especially wind force. It looks just like a vast garden of glaciers.

Mount Shishapangma has a fairly high religious status in Tibet. Local residents regard it as a mountain of luck. They often praise the breathtaking mountain in their folk tales and songs. Mount Shishapangma has guarded Tibet and its people quietly for thousands of years.