Cause the air is too thin and too skinny as well. Satan lives at the top of the mountain as well.
A.S Cheema was the first Indian climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest, he did so on the 20th May 1965 using oxygen.
A.S Cheema was the first Indian climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest, he did so on the 20th May 1965 using oxygen.
No he was not. Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb Mount Everest without artifical oxygen in 1978.
Climbers usually descend from the summit of Mount Everest by the same route they took up.
Up to the end of 2014 there has been 193 ascents to the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen. Not very many when you consider that there has been around 5,000 people who have reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world.
When Sir Ranulph Fiennes reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 21st May 2009 he was using bottled oxygen.
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Although it was claimed to have been done in 2005, it would be difficult if not impossible due to the limitations of rotorcraft at high altitudes. There is also no suitably large landing space at the summit, so excursions using helicopters are extremely unlikely. (see related link)
Both Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest using artifical oxygen from cylinders they carried on there backs.
Yes he did. Edmund Hillary was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 and he also reached the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, for which he led the New Zealand section, on 4 January 1958. His party was the first to reach the Pole overland since Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912, and the first ever to do so using motor vehicles.
Edmund Hillarys biggest achievment in his life was to be the first person along with Tenzing Norgay to reach the summit of Mount Everest at 11.30am on the the 29th May 1953 with the British Mount Everest Expedition. He also reached the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, for which he led the New Zealand section, on 4 January 1958. His party was the first to reach the Pole overland since Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912, and the first ever to do so using motor vehicles.
Unles you have stood on the summit of Mount Everest it is hard to really know what the climber is thinking. Some would probably get very emotional for reaching their goal, others would pray, be happy or even scared at the thought of climbing back down.