You know that Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world which
lies in Nepal. Here you can find 25 craziest facts about Mount Everest
which you will love to know about it.
1. 1974 was the last year that no one climbed
Mount Everest.
2. The mountain was named after George Everest
in 1856. He was a retired Surveyor General who never saw the peak.
3. Everest is well known for its “traffic
jams”. Sometimes several hundred climbers can be on the summit at the same time
4. Two Polish climbers, Leszka Cichy and
Krzysztof Wielicki, were the first two summit Everst during winter in February
of 1980.
5. In 2004 there was a wedding on the summit.
Moni Mule Pati and Pem Dorjee Sherpa, both from Nepal kept their plans a secret
from other climbers until they reached the peak.
6. The record for the longest time spent on the
summit is 21 hours, achieved by Babu Chiri Sherpa in 1999.
7. Bear Grylls, the youngest British climber to
summit the mountain, also flew higher than the peak in a powered paraglider in
2007.
8. The first phone call was placed from the
summit in summer of 2013. Nepalese officials, however, were less than impressed
and deemed it illegal.
9. Without extra oxygen, Australian Tim
Macartney-Snape became the first to climb from sea level to the summit, in May
1990.
10. Google has now mapped Everest, although it
did not get to the summit. In 2011 a team spent 2 weeks hiking over 70 miles to
reach base camp, capturing images along the way.
11. Officially, Mount Everest is 29,029ft based
on a 1954 ground measurement. A satellite-based measurement in 1999 found it to
be six feet taller but this was disputed.
12. The summit is just under the cruising altitude
of a passenger jet (around 31,000ft)
13. At Everest’s highest point, you are
breathing in a third of the amount of oxygen you would normally breathe. This
isn’t because of different air composition but rather because of less air
pressure.
14. Since 1969 at least one person has died on
Everest every year except for 1977
15. Winds on the mountain have been recorded at
more than 200mph.
16. One out of every 10 successful climbs to the
summit ends in death.
17. There are estimated to be 200 dead bodies on
the mountain and they are used as waypoints for climbers
18. Reinhold Messner was the first to climb the
mountain alone and without oxygen in 1980
19. Frenchman Marco Siffredi and Austrian Stefan
Gatt snowboarded down the mountain in 2001.
20. The oldest person to climb Everest is 80
year-old Yuichiro Miura of Japan
21. 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.
22. The worldís tallest man-made structure of
any kind with the Burj Khalifa in Dubai at 829m. Everest is more than ten times
its height.
23. The worldís second highest building, Taipei
101 in Taiwan would need to be stacked up more than 17 times to match Everest
24. The first tweet from the summit was sent by
Kenton Cool in 2011. He tweeted: “Everest summit no 9! 1st tweet from the top
of the world thanks to a weak 3G signalî
25. The mountain gets taller by 4mm every years
due to upward thrust created by two opposing tectonic plates.
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