Mount.+Everest

Mt.Everest Geography

There are different facts on geography of Mt.Everest. Mt.Everest is located in countries Nepal, China, Tibet and Sara math. Mt.Everest is 29,028 ft (8,848) meters. Mt.Everest is 5 miles high above sea level. Mt.Everest is in the cold Himalayas. An interesting fact is that Mt.Everest rises a few millimeters each year. There is a trek, that is a 100 mile hike from Kathmandu to the base of Mt.Everest. There is 6 camps on Mt.Everest that start from the bottom. First one 17,600ft, second 19,500ft, third 21,300ft, fourth 24,000ft, fifth 26,000ft and finally the summit 29,028ft. Tools when you climb Mt.Everest are special plastic boots, down suits and layers of polar fleece, ice axes, oxygen tanks, climbing ropes and climbing hardware including anchoring devices to secure ropes and rescue pulleys. History on Mt.Everest

There is a lot of history when people climb Mt.Everest. Mt.Everest was named after Sir George Everest, the first leader of the British survey. There has been about 1,400 people that climbed Mt.Everest and about 180 have tryed to reach the summit of Mt.Everest. On May 29, 1953 two men named Emund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were first that climbed Mt.Everest. Some people said that they weren’t the first one to climbed Mt.Everest. They said In 1924 British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine were the first to climb Mt.Everest but no one knows if they reached the summit. On May 25,2001 the first blind person that climbed Mt.Everest. The oldest person that climbed Mt.Everest on May 25,2001 named Sherman Bull. In 1975, a women named Junko Tabei was the first women that climbed Mt.Everest. Reinhold Messner was the first to climb Mt.Everest alone. On May 21,2010 a 13 year old boy climbed Mt.Everest with his father.

Conditions on Mt.Everest

Conditions on Mt.Everest are cold and dangerous. In the summer temperature can go -20F and during the day and at night -100F. The dangerous part on Mt.Everest is the ice fall. Nineteen people have slipped and died. An avalanche is the coldest and most dangerous event on Mt.Everest. Winds can blow 250 miles per hour. Conditions on Mt.Everest are powerful temperatures and weather.

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