Some Facts About Mt. Everest

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I want to give you some facts about Mt.Everest! Have any of you ever heard of Double Decker busses? (Waits for people to raise their hands.) Well, wrap your head around this: Mt. Everest it at least as high as 664 Double Decker busses stacked on top of each other! In order to reach the summit, you have to climb 29,034 feet, or, that would be 8848 meters tall! The summit is on the Nepal side, and and the base is on the Tibet side, which is in China, and, for the last fun fact, there are at least 18 different climbing routes on Everest, but all are equally as dangerous!

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