Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Top of the mountain was originally established in 1856, in the investigation of different people, the height of Mount Everest is 29,029 feet. Nevertheless, the investigators were on duty in the light of the fact that Nepal does not allow products because of concerns that the nation would be attacked or conditioning. Mt. Everest is located int north of Nepal, due to  the peaks like Mt. Everest Nepal is known as nation of Himalayas. Increased recognized power was controlled by a review of India in 1955 and moved in 1975 by a Chinese estimate.

In 1865, Andrew Waugh, the Surveyor General of British India, suggested that the mountain is the name of his predecessor in the job, Sir George Everest. Tibetans was referred to the mountain as "Chomolungma" or Holy Mother, for a considerable time but Waugh did not know what in the light of the fact that Nepal and Tibet were closed to marginalized.

Climbing Mount Everest

Everest attracts climbers and experienced climbers least wizard preparations commonly called Sherpas register. Climbing more than 8,000 feet is not a simple realization. Altitude sickness, weather and wind are significant barriers to the summit for most climbers. More than 5,000 people have climbed Everest and 219 went to try. Approximately 77 percent of these increases were responsible since 2000. In 2007, a record number of 633 recorded ascents.

Everest has two main climbing courses, south-eastern border of Nepal and Tibet north of the border. Today the East Rand of course, which is actually less demanding, is occasionally used.

The northern approach was found in 1921 by George Mallory in the British reconnaissance expedition environment that was an exploratory campaign, it does not provide that the summit is difficult. Mallory was essentially, perhaps quoted visionary, like that to the question "Why should Mount Everest?" With the answer "Given the fact that it's there."

In 1922, George Finch uses a Brit oxygen increases fought miracles, but the campaign has been hampered by a heavy sliding.

In June 1924 Mallory and Andrew Irvine have not their attempt to reach the summit to survive. A 1999 campaign Mallory bodies was found.

The work first campaigns in the 1920s and 1930s to the rise was always achieved by the Tibetan side is closed after Tibet under Chinese control in 1950. These make asked Bill Tilman and a small meeting that Charles Houston, Houston Oscar included Betsy Cowles, to Everest from Nepal approach along the route, which formed in the standard for the handling of Everest from the south.

1952 persons from a Swiss company of Edouard Wyss-Dunant initiated, could a height of about 28,199 feet to reach (8595 m) on the southeast flank, a new altitude record climbing. Tenzing Norgay, an individual of this campaign and a Nepalese Sherpa, next year granted the British company.

In 1953, a British company of John Hunt led, returned to Nepal. Hunt selected two climbing sets to work to reach the summit. The main partner (Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans) was very close to 300 feet (100 meters) from the top, but rejected because the oxygen problems. After two days, to combine the second, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, reached the top, a few photos and left a couple of desserts and a cross.

Life on Everest

Everest is of several important tapas, including Lhotse is (27,940 feet / 8516 meters) surround; Nuptse (25.771 feet / 7,855 meters); and Changtobse (24.870 feet / 7580 meters).

These higher layers can not build living beings or plants; Anyway, birch, juniper, blue pine, fir, bamboo and rhododendron growing in lower areas. No plant of over 18.690 feet (5,750 meters).

Musk deer, wild yak, red panda, snow leopard and carrying the Himalayan mountains have lower heights. There are also small amounts of Hirsch Thars Himalayan langur monkeys, rabbits, foxes, martens, wolves and mountains of the Himalayas.

The mountain turning points

Different turning points between the campaigns of Mount Everest are:

On May 20, 1965: Sherpa Nawang Gombu is the first person twice to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

On May 16, 1975: Junko Tabei of Japan is the first woman to summit Mount Everest.

On May 3, 1980: The Japanese climbers Yasuo Kato is the first non-Sherpa to reach the top for the second time, after taking only peak in the year 1973rd

On August 20, 1980: Reinhold Messner is the first person to reach the summit alone.

In 1996 climbing season: quack 16 people jump on Mount Everest, the most amazing number of deaths in a year of separation. Eight climbers the spoon, 10 May in the middle of a storm. One of the survivors, Jon Krakauer, a columnist in the work for the magazine "Outside", along with the hit "Like a ghost," their experiences.

InMay 22, 2010: Apa Sherpa, who has reached the summit originally 10. May 1990 reached the summit of Mount Everest twentieth time.