Camp 1
More people have lived while climbing the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. Over 5,000 people have reached the summit and made it back down to base camp alive. Just over 200 have died while climbing on Mount Everest.
Every year hundreds and hundreds of climbers from all over the world arrive at Mount Everest base camp hoping to reach the summit.
Some people on mt Everest do some wacky things. They either climb and try to get to the top or maybe at the base, it`s good for sledding or sleigh rides.
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.
If you were at Base Camp on Mount Everest you would hear many different languages from all over the world. Climbing season on Everest is truly an international affair.
The Base Camp at the bottom of Mount Everest is used as a 'home' for the climbers who intend to climb to the summit and back. In Base Camp the climber would prepair themselve for their climb, eat and drink well, get plenty of rest and sleep and also let their body aclimatise to the high altitude. Base Camp is a very important part of climbing Mount Everest.
You cant just go to Mount Everest and start climbing it. You have to allow your body to get use to the altitude, this is done by climbing up to a certain height then descend back down to Base Camp. You do this a few times then if you are ok you go for the summit.
On the 21st May 2004 saw Pemba Dorje Sherpa make a speed record of 8 hours and 10 minutes from base camp to summit of 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.
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.
The British Mount Everest expedition that Edmund Hillary was a member of reached base camp on the 12th April 1953. They would have rested for a few days before starting on there climb of the mountain.
The altitude for Mount Everest Base Camp is as follows: North Side: 17,000ft South Side: 17,400ft