Mount Everest is in a mountain range with other mountains called the Himalayas.
All expeditions that go to Mount Everest take there own portable generators with them which gives them electric at Base Camp.
Teams on Mount Everest use local food where possible brought in by there cook. They also ship tons of food over from there own country.
Those who live close to the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest tend to do farming. They usually grow their own vegtables in small holdings.
Mount Everest is in many colours. Apart from a lot of the mountain being white due to the snow and ice some of the different types of rock have there own colours.
Just like climbers today, Edmund Hillary wanted to climb Mount Everest for the adventure and challenge.
Now in 2009, well over 3000 people have conquered* Everest. It's rather sad really, as many inexperienced people are just paying to be guided to the top instead of getting there from their own skills. *no one actually 'conqueres' Mount Everest. If anything, Mount Everest conqueres the people
George Everest was not particularly excited about the idea of having Peak 15 renamed after him, as he was reportedly unaware of the designation until later in his life. Everest, a British surveyor, focused more on his work than on personal recognition. The name change occurred in the 1860s, long after he had retired, and he had mixed feelings about the honor, preferring to emphasize the importance of his team's contributions rather than his own.
Reinhold Messner was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest as a 'solo' climb. He did so on the 20th August 1980.
Climbers usually bring tin and packet food from their own country and buy fresh food on the trek to Everest in the villages they pass through.
Mount Everest lies in Nepal you can visit this site as well you can watch history of Nepal and Tibet. Tibet ask forest of Nepal and Nepal take mount Everest in its own land you can visit and watch map of Nepal.................. http://www.pacifichumanresource.com/pages.php?ref=about-nepal&&menu-id=2 l Tibet is far from Nepal border you can check this map.......
There has been no real evidence to show that Mallory and Irvine did or did not make it to the summit of Mount Everest. Everything that you read about it is the writers own idea and theory to what had happen. If the body of Irvine is found and the camera is with him it 'might' show how far they really got.