Mount
Everest is situated in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas on the Nepalese-Chinese
border and is also known in as Nepal as Sagarmāthā and in China as Chomolungma.
Mount Everest attracts various mountaineers and climbers; some of them are extremely
skilled mountaineers. Here we are giving you are some interesting facts about
Mount Everest.
1. It
was first recognized for the western world by a survey team of Britain which
was lead by Sir George Everest in 1841.
2. Mount
Everest according to a research continues to grow about 4 millimeters every
year (4mm). The reason behind its growing is that the Indian subcontinent was initially
an independent landmass which collided with the Asia and leads to the forming
of Himalayas and that continental are still moving that’s why pushing the Mount
Everest ever higher.
3. During
the warmest month in Nepal that is August, the temperature of Mount Everest is
about -20 degrees, and drops to the -27 in the month of February. The lowest
temperature on peak of the mountain is about -60 degrees, along with a wind chill
feature of -76.
4. In
Mount Everest where you cant even breathe properly, you will find the spiders
there. There the tiny spiders manage well to feed on whatsoever stray insects
the harsh winds blow there. They are almost the only animals which are
permanently based at this high altitude.
5. There
is a dispute about the height of Mount Everest. According to China, the height
of the mountain is 8,844 meters (29,016 ft) while as per the Nepal its height
is 8,848 meters (29,029 ft). But in the year 2010, both the countries came to
an agreement that the official height of Mount Everest is 8,848 meters.
6. The
mountain was formed approximately 60 million years ago.
7. Tenzing
Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first human beings to go up the mountain. They
climb the Mount Everest on May 29 in the year 1953. The annual celebrations
are held in Nepal for commemorating the initial climb made by the Edmund
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
8. The
first woman to climb the Mount Everest was Junko Tabei from Japan in the year
1975.
9. Avalanches
on the Mount Everest are the main cause of death. In the year 1996, 15 climbers
lost their lives as they tried to move down from the mountain because of an
avalanche.
10. There
are about 4 thousand people who have tries to climb up on the mountain but out
of 4ooo only 660 have succeeded. About 140 climbers died while trying as the
peak is the 5 ½ above the sea level.
11. There
is also a human traffic jam on the Mount Everest. Yes, during the climbing season
in the year 2012 about 234 climbers reached to the peak on a single day in the
month of May; whereas the hundreds of other turned around. Moreover, the mass
of the climbers cause some to wait for about 2 hours for starting the climb to
the summit.
12. It
takes approximately 40 days for climbing Mt. Everest in order for the body to change
or adjust to the high height.
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