Amazing Facts &
Information about
Mount Everest-
The Highest Mountain on
Earth
Facts & Information about
Mount Everest,
General Knowledge about Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the worlds highest
mountain.
Royal Geographical Society adopted
mount
Everest as the highest mountain in
1965.
* Mount Everest was earlier known as
Peak XV.
* In 1852 an
Indian mathematician
Radhanath Sikdar first identified Everest
as the highest peak of world.Before that
Kanchenjunga was considered as the
highest peak of world.
* Mount Everest is not static.It is moving
and it's height is also increasing.
Mount
Everest's height is increasing 4 mm per
year and it is moving toward northeast at
a rate of 3-6 mm per year.
1. In
1953,
Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. To this date, people doubt whether
Hillary did reach the summit as although photographic evidence of Norgay at the top was provided – that of Hillary was not.
2. The last year prior to
2015 that no one climbed to the Everest summit was
1974.
3. The mountain is named after
George Everest – a retired
Surveyor General who never saw the peak
4. In May
1975,
Junko Tabei earned the ‘first woman’ title when she reached the top of the 29,035-feet mountain.
5
. Doug Scott and
Dougal Haston created the first ‘new route’ in
September 1975 which was separate to that provided by Hillary and Norgay. The path was dubbed ‘
England 1975’ as the duo were the first
British nationals to reach the summit.
6. Mount Everest stands at 29,035ft, 10 times the height of the world’s tallest building –
Burj Khalifa in
Dubai.
7. In 1978,
Reinhold Messner and
Peter Habeler conquered the peak without supplemental oxygen. Messner later repeated and reached the summit alone.
8. The youngest person to reach the summit is
Jordan Romero who climbed the peak age 13.
9. In
1980,
Leszek Cichy and Krysztof
Wielicki became the first to reach the summit in winter. Ignoring the recommended periods to climb, which are between April and June and September and October, the duo tackled the peak in February and battled against temperatures as low as -42 degrees.
10. In
1990,
Peter Hillary – Edmund Hillary’s son – climbed to the summit, making them the first father and son duo to both complete it.
11. The oldest person to climb Everest is 80 year-old
Yuichiro Miura of
Japan.
12. The first two men to snowboard down the peak were the
Frenchman Marco Siffredi and
Austrian Stefan Gatt in May
2001.
13. In 2004, the fastest time climbed to date was set by Pemba Dorjee
Sherpa 12 years ago. He set the time of eight hours and 10 minutes to reach
Base Camp – a trek that would usually take climbers at least four days.
14. In May
2005,
Didier Delsalle claimed to be the first helicopter pilot to land on the summit of Everest.
15. The temperature at the summit never rises above freezing. It averages at -36 degrees in winter and -19 degrees in summer.
16. The rock at the top of the mountain used to be on the seafloor - 450million years ago.
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- published: 23 Mar 2016
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