Mount Everest

Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world can be found on the border of Nepal and Tibet in the Himalayan mountains.

Your body is not designed to stay any length of time in the thin air on Mount Everest. Eventually your body will start to shut down, which without proper care and acclimatization you could die.

On the 16th May 1975 Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

On the 16th 1975 May Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest.

Bachendri Pal was 30 when she reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1984

The Blue Mosque, known as the Sultanahmet Camii in Turkish, or Sultan Ahmed Mosque, is an historical and dramatically beautiful mosque, located in Istanbul Turkey. Its title, 'The mosque,' is because of the lapis-lazuli blue tiles surrounding the walls of interior design.

The Mosque was built between 1609 and 1616 years, during the rule of Ahmed I. just as with most other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasa (school), and a hospice. Besides still being used as a mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque has also become a popular tourist attraction in Istanbul.

The Mosque can accommodate up to 10,000 people and maintains facilities for all cycles of daily prayer. The first call to prayer begins at sunrise and the last at nightfall. The Mosque is closed for ninety minutes during prayer time.

Daily visitor numbers average in the thousands. Anyone visiting not for prayer should avoid arriving during prayer times, especially mid-day, on Fridays, and within a half-hour after the ezan (call to prayer) is chanted from the Mosque's minarets.

Mount Everest sits at 8848 Metres above sea level, while Mount Kosciuszko sits at 2228 metres above sea level. Making Everest 6620 metres higher than Kosciuszko.

Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay were the first who are known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. There were others who earlier climbed part of the way up Mount Everest, such as UK climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine who made an attempt in 1924 to reach the summit - an attempt from which they never returned alive. Because they died, it is unknown whether or not they succeeded.
The first offical people to reach the summit of Mount Everest is Edmund Hillary and his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay, they stood on the highest summit in the world at 11.30 in the morning of the 29th May 1953.
The first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest was Edmund Hillary from New Zealand. He reached the top on the 29th May 1953 as a member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition.
Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 followed by Tenzing Norgay
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest on 29th May 1953
A New Zealander Edmund Hillary. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest
a guy named Sir Edmund Hillary
If you mean who was the first one to reach the summit of Mount Everest then that was Edmund Hillary in 1953.
George Mallory

Steve Backshall is a rock climber and mountaineer, does adventure races, fell runs and endurance sports. He has climbed such peaks as Cho Oyu 8201m, Cholatse and is an advanced Himalayan Expedition leader.

But he has not climbed Mount Everest.

The higher you get the harder it is to breathe. Mount Everest is 8848 meters tall. Therefore it is in a zone called the "death zone" (the death zone is 8000 meters and above). Only 14 mountains are in this zone. Most climbers use oxygen from around 7000 meters to 8000 meters. But others try without. The first two climbers to do this were Reinhold Messner and Peter Habler. Mount Everest is also in line with jet stream winds. This causes the summit to be untouchable most of the year.

It is difficult to predict the weather on Mount Everest. However one thing can be safely predicted the weather can change in an instant and can get worse as you reach closer to the top of the world.

Read the article given in the link for more details

The region above 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) is called the death zone. The reason for this name is because nothing lives at that altitude or above and no human can survive long there due to the lack of oxygen in the thin air.

It is thought that the summit of Mount Everest started at the bottom of the ancient Tethys Sea, the motion of the Indian sub continental plate and the urasian continental plate colliding, about 30 - 50 million years ago, caused the mountain to rise up and become the highest mountain on the Earth.

In 2011 Bhakta Kumar Rai from Nepal spent 32 hours on top of Mount Everest. He reached the top at 5:30am on May 20th and stayed there till 1pm the next day. In that time he mediated for 27 hours for world peace.

It is difficult to predict the weather on Mount Everest. However one thing can be safely predicted the weather can change in an instant and can get worse as you reach closer to the top of the world.

You can view the weather chart to see what the weather is like right now on Mount Everest at the link given.

Due to the fact that the climate on Mount Everest is so harsh, it is no surprise that very little lives on the mountain itself. No humans live on the slopes of Mount Everest. However, there are some things that have been found on Everest. Of course, the vast majority of these things have been found at the bottom of the mountain, but some are surprisingly much higher up.

The Euophrys omnisuperstes is a small jumping spider that lives 22,000ft up Mount Everest.

The Bar-Headed Goose has been seen flying around Everest at up to thirty thousand feet.

Another bird that has been known to survive on Everest is the Chough, this bird has been seen as high as 7,920 meters.

The youngest person to climb Mount Everest was Jordan Romero aged 13 years 10 months 10 days old on the 22nd May 2010.

This would be impossible to answer here as there has been around 5,000 people from all over the world have reached the summit of Mount Everest to date.

The main reason people want to climb Mount Everest is to live out their dream. Some do it for the adventure and thrill, others do it because they are paid as a guide and some see how far they can push their body to the limits.

Up to the end of 2014 a total of 418 woman have reached the highest summit in the world, Mount Everest. However, out of the 418 woman 6 had died on the way back down the mountain after reaching the summit.

The people who died on Mount Everest during the terrible storm on the 10/11th May 1996 were:

Andrew Harris

Doug Hansen

Rob Hall

Yasuko Namba

Scott Fischer

Subedar Tsewang Samanla

Lance Naik Dorje Morup

Tsewang Paljor

Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 followed by Tenzing Norgay.