Facts About the Highest Mount Everest

July 1, 2014 | Anonymous | 0 comments

Did you know that in Nepal and Tibet Mount Everest is not called as it is? Yes! the mountain has its local name there. You can climb Everest via two routes starting from Tibet or Nepal also. It is a very great deal when you wanted to climb the mountain and set a record for yourself because it is very dangerous to climb it. But some people pay some professional climbers to climb for them and set a fake a record for themselves. Mount Everest claimed so many climbers lives already and it is increasing as time passes by. A mountain is considered to be much way taller than Everest when measured from its base located on the ocean floor. This mountain is located in Hawaii, the mount Mauna Kea. And did you know that there are many living creatures living even in the very high and different altitudes of the Mount Everest? For this top ten list I listed some facts regarding Mount Everest, its history, people that explored it and more.

Fact - 1.

Mount Everest has two main climbing routes, the southeast ridge from Nepal and north ridge from Tibet.

Fact -2.

George Mallory became the first European to set foot on Everest's flanks on 1921.

Fact -3.

By March 2012, Everest has been climbed 5,656 times with 223 recorded number of deaths.

Fact -4.

Spiders have been found living in Everest's crevices at the height of 22,000 feet.

Fact -5.

Mount Mauna Kea (the White Mountain) in Hawaii is way much taller than Everest when measured from its base in the mid-ocean floor having the height of 33,464.6 feet.

Fact -6.

Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal was the first to identify Everest as the world's highest peak.

Fact -7.

The first recorded efforts to reach Everest's summit were made by the British mountaineers; George Mallory, A.F.R. Wollaston, Charles Howard-Bury, Alexander Heron, Harold Raeburn, Henry T. Morshead, Guy Bullock, and Oliver Wheeler.

Fact -8.

The Royal Geographical Society named Everest after Sir George Everest in 1865.

Fact -9.

In 1856, the Great Trigonometric Survey of India established the first published height of Everest at 29,002 feet.

Fact -10.

Mount Everest is "Sagarmatha" in Nepal and "Chomolungma" in Tibet. Sagarmatha means "the Head in the Great Blue Sky" while Chomolungma means “Goddess Mother of the World” or “Goddess of the Valley.”







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