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People can earn money on Mount Everest by doing the following things:

1: Being a guide - guiding someone to the summit

2: A Sherpa - prepairing the route

3: Porter - carrying gear to camps higher up the mountain

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Only if you wear a parachute ! The thin air at the summit means you will reach terminal velocity very quickly. However - your parachute wont become effective until there is sufficient air pressure to fill the canopy and slow you down.

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Once in the "death zone" people use bottled oxegen to breath ...

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Given the right equipment, yes. In fact, people have done so using hang gliders and paragliders; the first successful attempt was over 30 years ago.

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Where does Mount Everest stay?

Mount Everest can be found on the border of Nepal and Tibet in the Himalayan mountains


Where can people stay after climbing mout everest?

After climbing Mount Everest there are many villages on the trek back to Kathmandu that offer overnight accomodation if needed.


How many people go to Mount Everest?

Every year thousands of people visit Mount Everest Base Camp to view the highest mountain in the world.Around 300 - 400 people make it to the summit of Mount Everest every year if the conditions are right for climbing. Many more try but fail for different reasons.


Does anybody live on the peak of Mount Everest?

No one really "lives" on the peak of Mt. Everest, Sherpas can stay up there very long, but no one actually lives there. The conditions on the top of Mount Everest are not such that you would stay alive for long if you stayed on the top any longer than absolutely necessary. People die on a regular basis just trying to get up there. and nobody has ever been up there until 1953 and because of the cold and extremely low air pressure it is not a place where you can live for long.


How long did sir Edmund Hilary stay on top of mount Everest?

1 day


What is mount everest's population?

There is no population on Mount Everest.Due to the harsh weather conditions and climate it is impossible to be able to live on Mount Everest. Climbers stay on the mountain during the climbing season but then pack up and go home. Local people live in villages near by on the main trekking route to the mountain.


Is Mount Everest in habited?

Due to the harsh weather conditions and climate it is impossible to be able to live on Mount Everest. Climbers stay on the mountain during the climbing season but then pack up and go home.


Is their a man living on Mount Everest?

No one lives on Mount Everest. During the climbing season climbers stay at camps that have been built on the mountain. Once the season is over the camps are taken down.


Is Mount Everest easy to climb with modern equipment?

Mount Everest will always be a hard mountain to climb. But with all the improvements that have been made in not only equipment, but technology and communication for climbers, they can stay safer while on their dangerous climb to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Take a look at the article in the link.


Who lives at the base of Mount Everest?

Due to the harsh weather conditions and climate it is impossible to be able to live on Mount Everest. Climbers stay on the mountain during the climbing season but then pack up and go home.


Do people live on Mount Everest?

The depends if you're talking about the peak of Mount Everest or of its base. At the peak of Mount Everest, there is an extremely low amount of oxygen in the air to breathe, so therefore no one would be able to live at that high of an altitude. But at the base, however, it would be possible for humans to live.


Why did sir Edmund Hillary stay famous apart from climbing mount Everest?

Following his ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, Hillary devoted most of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan Trust, which he founded. Through his efforts, many schools and hospitals were built in Nepal.