The two normal routes to climb Mount Everest are the South Col - South East Ridge from Nepal and the North Col - North East Ridge from Tibet. There are other routes that will get you to the summit of Everest, although these are not very often used now a days. Other routes that have been climbed although not very often include: West Ridge Hornbein Couloir, South West Face, West Ridge Direct, Japanese Couloir, South Pillar, South West Pillar, North East Ridge - North Face - Norton Couloir 1, North East Ridge - North Face - Norton Couloir 2, East Face American Butress, The Great Couloir, East Face - South Col, Below North Col - North Face - Norton Couloir, The Complete North East Ridge, North - North East Direct, Central North Face Direct.
Every year thousands of tourists visit the bottom of Mount Everest. It is a very popular place to trek too and see one of the natural wonders of 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.
Over 20,000 people reach its summit each year
Many thousands of people have failed to reach the summit of Mount Everest. There are many reasons why a climber fails, such as illness, an avalanche, a fall, the weather, equipment failed, not being fit enough, not being in the right frame of mind and not having the correct type of climbing experience.
Every year on the North and South side of Mount Everest in total there are around 25 to 30 groups who wish to climb the mountain.
There were five deaths on Mount Everest in 2009. Lhakpa Nuru Sherpa from Nepal Kazi Lama Sherpa from Nepal Veslav Chrzaszcz from Czech Republic Wen-Hong Wu from China Frank Ziebarth from Germany
The two normal routes to climb Mount Everest are the South Col - South East Ridge from Nepal and the North Col - North East Ridge from Tibet. There are other routes that will get you to the summit of Everest, although these are not very often used now a days. List of other routes can be found in the link.
Every year thousands of tourist visit Mount Everest to see the tallest mountain in the world. There are many company's that offer trekking holidays taking different routes to the base of Mount Everest.
There are many climbing routes to the summit of Mount Everest but the two mostly used are the South Col route and the North Col route. To read about the other routes see the article in the link given.
The two main routes to climb Mount Everest are the South Col - South East Ridge from Nepal and the North Col - North East Ridge from Tibet.
The two main routes used to climb Mount Everest are the North Col route (Tibet side) and the South Col route (Nepal side). There are many other routes to the summit but today these are not used very often. Take a look at the article at the link given to see all the routes.
The two main routes to climb Mount Everest are the South Col - South East Ridge from Nepal and the North Col - North East Ridge from Tibet.
Mount Everest has a height of 885,000cm
There are no shops on Mount Everest. On the way to Mount Everest you will pass through many villages where you can buy things.
Mount Everest stands at 8.848m high
At the end of 2012 approx five thousand have climbed Mount Everest.
Nobody goes to Mount Everest for a holiday. Mount Everest is a serious and deadly climb.
How many people attempt to climb Mount Everest every year?