In Asia, there is a place called the Himalayas. In the himalayas, you can find the highest mountain in the world. It is called Mount Everest. It height is 29 035 feet, 8848 meters high. Everest is located in the border of Nepal to the south and China or Tibet on the north. It was formed 60 million years ago by the movement of the Indian tectonic plate pushing up and against the Asian plate. Its height increases 0.25 inches every year. The wind can blow over 200 miles per hour and the temperature is -80 F. With that weather, It sounds impossible to climb but in mid May each year, the jet stream moves north causing the winds the calm and temperatures to warm enough for people to try to summit. This is called the “summit window”. In November,
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The first people to see the Mount Everest were the indigenous people. In Tibet, Everest is called Chomolungma. It means mother goddess of the universe. In Nepal, it is called Sagarmatha and it means goddess of the sky. It was first identified for the western world by a British survey team lead by Sir George Everest in 1841. Everest was first named Peak 15 and measured at 29,002 feet in 1856. In 1865, it was named in his honour of Colonel Sir George Everest. In 1955, the height was adjusted to 29,028 feet and is still used by Nepal. In China, the official height today is 29,015 feet. In 1999, the summit was measured at 29,035 feet or 8850 meters. This was done by using GPS …show more content…
Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal were the first to summit on May 29, 1953. They climbed from the south side on a British expedition lead by Colonel John Hunt. The first north side summit was by Nawang Gombu (Tibetan) and Chinese climbers Chu Yin-Hau and Wang Fu-zhou on May 25, 1960. American Jordan Romero was the youngest person to summit on May 23, 2010 with 13 years 11 months, and he was from the north. The oldest person to summit was Japanese Miura Yuichiro, age 80 on May 23, 2013. It is necessary to summit Everest with bottled oxygen because at that altitude, the available oxygen is 33% of that at sea level. Italian Reinhold Messner with Peter Habeler in 1978 were the first climbers to summit Everest without bottled oxygen. Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi both hold the record for most summits with 21. American Dave Hahn has the most non-Sherpa summits with 15. The first woman to summit Everest was Junko Tabei of Japan in 1975. The oldest woman to summit was Japanese Tamae Watanabe, age 73, in 2012 from the north. On May 25, 2014, Indian Malavath Purna became the youngest woman to summit with 13 years 11 months from the south side. Through June 2016, 489 women have submitted. Nepali Lhakpa Sherpa holds the women's summit record with
The first people to see the Mount Everest were the indigenous people. In Tibet, Everest is called Chomolungma. It means mother goddess of the universe. In Nepal, it is called Sagarmatha and it means goddess of the sky. It was first identified for the western world by a British survey team lead by Sir George Everest in 1841. Everest was first named Peak 15 and measured at 29,002 feet in 1856. In 1865, it was named in his honour of Colonel Sir George Everest. In 1955, the height was adjusted to 29,028 feet and is still used by Nepal. In China, the official height today is 29,015 feet. In 1999, the summit was measured at 29,035 feet or 8850 meters. This was done by using GPS …show more content…
Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal were the first to summit on May 29, 1953. They climbed from the south side on a British expedition lead by Colonel John Hunt. The first north side summit was by Nawang Gombu (Tibetan) and Chinese climbers Chu Yin-Hau and Wang Fu-zhou on May 25, 1960. American Jordan Romero was the youngest person to summit on May 23, 2010 with 13 years 11 months, and he was from the north. The oldest person to summit was Japanese Miura Yuichiro, age 80 on May 23, 2013. It is necessary to summit Everest with bottled oxygen because at that altitude, the available oxygen is 33% of that at sea level. Italian Reinhold Messner with Peter Habeler in 1978 were the first climbers to summit Everest without bottled oxygen. Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi both hold the record for most summits with 21. American Dave Hahn has the most non-Sherpa summits with 15. The first woman to summit Everest was Junko Tabei of Japan in 1975. The oldest woman to summit was Japanese Tamae Watanabe, age 73, in 2012 from the north. On May 25, 2014, Indian Malavath Purna became the youngest woman to summit with 13 years 11 months from the south side. Through June 2016, 489 women have submitted. Nepali Lhakpa Sherpa holds the women's summit record with