Because it's still there.
At the end of 2012 approx five thousand have climbed Mount Everest.
Probably around 300 - 400 climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest this year, 2012 from all over the world.
For adventure, achievment, fame, personal reasons or because it is there.
2012 was a bad year for publicity about Mount Everest due to 10 climbers losing there lifes while on the mountain.
As of 2012 there has been approx five thousand people reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Japanese climber Tamae Watanabe, became the oldest woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 19th May 2012, at the age of 73 years and 180 days.
Hundreds of people climb it every year.likely the only ones you've heard of are sir edmund hillary (first ever) and bear grylls (has a tv show).Many people including but not limited to Sir Edmund Hillary and Jon KrakauerAnswer #2There have been close to 2,000 people climb it and close to 200 die trying.Sir ranulf fiennes also climbed mount Everestmany people climb (but that does not mean its easy) but the first was Mr.HillaryThe first person to climb Everest was Sir Edmund Hillary, with Tenzing Norgay in 1953.I'd absolutely love to be able to do it one day. I'm thinking of doing the Everest Base Camp trek as a starting point, apparently it's still quite a difficult climb and the views from the bottom of Everest are still pretty fantastic! Apparently these people run a really good trek taking you from Kathmandu to Lukla then on to the base camp in twenty dayshttp://www.mountainkingdoms.com/itinerary_info.ihtml?schedid=919,think I'm going to have a go next year!The youngest person to summit Mount Everest was Jordan Romero.He got to the top on April 2010 when he was 13 years old.His name was yung-je-su at 13 years old
Japanese climber Tamae Watanabe, became the oldest woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 19th May 2012, at the age of 73 years and 180 days old
The first to reach the summit of Mount Everest without artificial oxygen were Reinhold Messner and Peter Habler on the 8th May 1978.
Death Zone Cleaning Mount Everest - 2012 was released on: Nepal: April 2012 (premiere) USA: May 2012 (limited)
There has been about 3,000 people who've climbed it, and about 5,000 ascents up it
There are approx. 120 corpses left on Mt. Everest. There has now been 203 deaths on Everest With just over 2290 making it to the summit, you have a 1 in 10 chance roughly of making it.