Pangboche or
Panboche is a village in
Khumjung VDC of
Solukhumbu District,
Nepal at an altitude of . It is located high in the
Himalayas in the Imja Khole valley, about 3 kilometres northeast of
Tengboche and is a base camp for climbing nearby
Ama Dablam and trekking. It contains a monastery, famed for its purported
yeti scalp and
hand, the latter of which was stolen. The village is inhabited mainly by
Sherpas, and
Sungdare Sherpa, a native of the village, had the record for conquering Everest five times in the Sherpa climbing history and in the world history of mountaineering in 1989. The Pangboche school was built by Sir
Edmund Hillary's
Himalayan Trust in 1963. North of the village is the
Dughla lake and pass.