Facts of Mount Everest

Mount Everest is that the tallest mountain in the world that placed Solukhumbhu district of Nepal. Excellent Himalaya Trek and Expedition here presents some fascinating facts of this world’s tallest peak.

Facts of Mount Everest

1. The height of Mount Everest is 29,035 feet or 8848 meters from the ocean level.
2. Mount Everest was shaped by the movement of the Indian tectonic plate pushing up and against the Asian plate.
3. Geologists say Mount Everest is over sixty million years old.
4. Everest is termed Chomolungma by the Tibetan people. It means that mother divinity of the universe.
5. Everest was named Sagarmatha by the Nepal Government. It means that divinity of the sky.
6. Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843, discovered Everest in 1841. At that time this peak was called Peak 15.
7. In 1865, it had been named Mount Everest, after Sir George Everest.
8. Everest grows 4mm higher each year because of geological uplift.
9. Sir Edmund Hilary, from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, from Nepal, were the first to summit Mt. Everest, on May 19^th They climbed from the south side on a British expedition led by Colonel John Hunt.
10. The first woman to summit Everest was Junko Tabei of Japan in 1975.
11. Over 2000 people have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
12. Over 4,000 individuals have tried to climb Mount Everest.
13. Over 260 individuals have died on Everest (exact variety unknown).
14. In 2014, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake triggered the associate avalanche that base camp killed sixteen Sherpa and climbers and wounded sixty-one. This can be the greatest tragedy ever seen on Mount Everest.
15. In 2014, an avalanche killed sixteen Sherpa higher than the Khumbu ice. At the time this was the worst accident in Everest history.
16. During 1996, around fifteen individuals lost their lives whereas making an attempt to descend from the summit of Mount Everest.
17. Avalanches are the greatest reason behind death for climbers scaling mountain peak
18. The youngest person to succeed in the summit was thirteen and the oldest was eighty.
19. Reinhold Messner and Peter Habler were the first climbers to summit Everest without bottled oxygen in 1978
20. It takes 40 days to climb Mt. Everest in order for the body to adjust to the high altitude.

Wonderful Trips to Mount Everest

• Everest Base Camp Trek
• Classic Everest Trek
• Everest View Trek
• Everest Three Pass Trek