Interesting Facts about Mount Everest

Mount Everest, also known in Nepal as Sagarmāthā 

and in Tibet as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain in the world. Here are some interesting facts about Mount Everest.

1)  Everest grows 4mm higher every year due to geologic uplift.

2) Over 4,000 people have attempted to climb Everest.

3) Mount Everest is also home to a very minute black jumping spider. These spiders hide in crevices and      feed on frozen insects. Their food depends largely upon what is blown by the    wind into the specific area.They live as high as 22,000 feet.

4) In Nepal the mountain is called Sagarmatha, meaning ‘forehead of the sky’.

5)  Everest was created about 60 million years ago.

6) The Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar was the first to put a figure on the height of the mountain. He calculated that it reached 29,002 feet (now adjusted to 29,035 feet), the highest point ever recorded on earth.

7) The mountain has even been skied down. On October 7, 2000, a 38-year-old Slovenian, Davorin Karnicar, skied 12,000 feet back to the south-side Base Camp.

8) The most dangerous area of the mountain is often considered to be the Khumbu Ice Fall, which is particularly dangerous due to the unpredictable movement of the icefall.

9) The youngest person to reach the summit is 13 year old Jordan Romero. In May 2010, the young American broke the record previously held by 15 year old Ming Kipa of Nepal.

10) In 2010, Dubai broke the record for both the world’s tallest building and tallest man-made structure of any kind with the Burj Khalifa at 829m high. Everest is more than ten times its height.

11) -  The lowest temperature on the peak is -40°C (-40°F); with wind chill -60°C (-76°F)!

        -  Coldest month: February — average -27°C (-17°F) over 7,500m

      Warmest month august :— average -20°C (-4°F) over 7,500m 

-         Snow line: From 5,300m (17,400 ft) there's snow and ice all year.

      -    The death zone: in mountaineering is above 8,000m (26,000 ft), where oxygen is           insufficient to sustain human life (25% that of sea level). 844m of Everest is in the death    zone.

12) The youngest person to reach summit was 13 and the oldest 76.

12) In 1865, The Royal Geographical Society gave Mt Everest its English name in honour of George Everest, a Welsh surveyor who was the British Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. The mountain has other names in languages such as Nepali and Tibetan.

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In 1953 the first successful ascent to the summit of Mt Everest was achieved by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

13) In 1865, The Royal Geographical Society gave Mt Everest its English name in honour of George Everest, a Welsh surveyor who was the British Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. The mountain has other names in languages such as Nepali and Tibetan.