Mountain and Rock Climbing

The mountains stood silently, glaring down at us with pure disdain.

The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma, it means goddess mother of the world.

Mt. Everest is named after Sir George Everest. He was a British military engineer who served as a surveyor general of India from 1829 to 1843. During this time he surveyed the peak, and became the first person to record the location and height of the mountain, which at that time was called Peak XV. Andrew Waugh, Everest's successor as the British Surveyor General of India, decided that Peak XV should be named after George Everest. George Everest was opposed to the idea, claiming to the Royal Geographical Society in 1857 that Everest could not be written in Hindi nor pronounced by 'the native of India'. Waugh's proposed name prevailed despite his objections, and in 1865, the Royal Geographical Society officially adopted Mount Everest as the name for the highest mountain in the world. Most people in Nepal call Mt. Everest, Sagarmtha, meaning forehead in the sky. Speakers of the Tibetan language call Mt. Everest Chomolungma. The translation is "goddess, mother of the world."

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Spikes or "crampons" are only fitted to the shoes and used when mountaineers climb so high that they encounter ICE on the ground on the mountain. The spikes dig into the ice and stop the mountaineers feet slipping.

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On the 25th April 2015, an earthquake measuring 7.8 M triggered an avalanche that hit Mount Everest Base Camp. 18 bodies were recovered from Mount Everest by the Indian army mountaineering team. The avalanche began on Pumori, moved through the Khumbu Icefall on the southwest side of Mount Everest, and slammed into the South Base Camp

Mount Everest climbers in the 1950Õs wore aviator style-goggles with darkened lenses, baggy and cotton-blend outer clothing with several inner layers, boots with insulation, and steel crampons. They also brought along external frame aluminum packs with canvas tents, nylon-shell sleeping bags, bulky radio communication sets, notebooks and pens, rangefinder cameras, steel ice axes, and tinned food.

On 16 May 1998, Bear Grylls achieved his childhood dream climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, 18 months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. At 23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achieved this feat. This is the only time he has been on the mountain.

The Himalayas. It's the 2nd highest mountain in the world.

The first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest was Jim Whittaker on the 1st May 1963.

because the air gets thinner and thinner the higher you go, the oxygen is for survival.

People have been living and climbing in the Himalayas since before recorded history.

The first recorded European attempt on the summit was made by the Irishman Rev. William S. Green and the Swiss hotelier Emil Boss and the Swiss mountain guide Ulrich Kaufmann on 2 March 1882 via the Tasman and Linda Glaciers

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Most people believe that Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, both from the 1953 British expedition, were the first to scale Mount Everest. However, it is possible that the peak was climbed first almost 30 years before by George Mallory and Sandy Irvine of the 1924 British expedition. Mallory and Irvine went missing on their final summit push, and despite Mallory being found high on the North Face in 1999, no one knows whether they got to the summit.

yes. It actually kills more people than Everest

If you mean the incense then at then to my knowledge k2 has not been proven to have any damaging effects and no reports of harm caused by it have been made. K2 kills more people than you think and they just stop breathing and die and i have a friend that is 19 years old and died twice from K2 and is still smoking it! and i dont understand why he see what its doing to him

^^^ Ya i think that your high...

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.

he did

73 year jappanese women named Kathmandu, Nepal
It was a 71 year old man, by the way, if this answer helped you in any way, please send me a message
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Yuichiro Miura from Japan became the oldest person to reach the top of the world on the 23rd May 2013 at the age of 80.

2 have to my knowledge. Brian Blessed and Bear Grylls.

its impossible to say because a different number summit every year and we have no records of people who have climbed in the past.

Up to the end of 2015 there have been 10 woman climbers die on Mount Everest. Hannelore Schmatz from Germany Mary Francis from USA Pasang Lhamu Sherpa from Nepal Yasuko Namba from Japan Francys Distefano-Arsentiev from USA Shoko Ota from Japan Mariana Maslarova from Bulgaria Shriya Shah-Klorfine from Canada Renu Fotedar from Australia Marisa Girawong from USA

This is hard to answer, there use to be many hundreds of canisters dumped in different camps on Mount Everest but today there are dedicated teams whos job it is to bring down any rubbish like this they find.

There has been around 200 people die on Mount Everest while trying to reach or return from the highest summit in the world. The most famous two are George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. Many of their body's are in view from the route used to ascend and descend from the summit.