I would say the one thing you need to reach the summit of Mount Everest is luck. There are many things that can destroy your summit dream such as:
Bad weather, avalanches, illness, faulty equipment, willpower, accident and much more.
Absolutely no one has ever summitted Mount Everest in winter.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 and they both came down safely.
Zero, which is to say absolutely no one.
All sorts of people from all over the world goes to Mount Everest every year. Sightseers: They walk to Base Camp at Mount Everest to see one of the world Wonders. Climbers: There dream is to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.
Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest first followed by his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay.
He was one of the first people to reach the summit of Mt. Everest
Erik WeihenmayerErik Weihenmayer was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001.
Edmund Hillary was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953
Apa Sherpa has reached the summit of Mount Everest twenty one (21) times, he has now retired from climbing.
Sir Edmund Hillary climbed to the summit of Mount Everest only the one time.
In 2009 there had been 50 American mountaineers who reached the summit of Mount Everest.
No one has died on the summit of Mount Everest. The highest place on the mountain that a climber has died is the Hillary Step at 28,840 feet.