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about 9 months i think
About 11 feet each year.
Yes. And the permanent snow fields are sometimes called glaciers. The altitude is high enough -- making the temperature permanently below freezing -- so that whatever moisture is in the air falls or collects as snow or ice crystals.
10-13 feet per year
In the Upper Peninsula, every month but July has seen snow, hence the motto: "eleven months of winter and thirty days of rain."
Yes. It can. The snow leopard just lives in snow for six months of the year!
It is covered in snow all year round. It was first climbed by a British expedition in 1953. So many people want to climb it that there are severe restrictions on how many expeditions can climb each year.
Mount Everest is usually icy and covered in snow all year round. Read more about the weather on Mount Everest at the link.
No. It most certainly does not.
The snowline on Mount Everest is actually reducing. This year (2016) during the climbing season on Mount Everest climbers found very little snow on the Hillary Step just below the summit. It is usually covered in snow and ice yet some climbers said it was more of a rock climb.
How many people attempt to climb Mount Everest every year?
Some parts are covered for 3 or 4 months while others are covered for most of the year. If the highest latitudes were land rather than ocean, these would be covered all year. However, if the snow never melted, glaciers/ice sheets would form as you see in Greenland and higher elevations in the Arctic. However, in many places where snow melts, the ground is still frozen throughout the year - this is called permafrost.