Mountain and Rock Climbing

The first ascent of Mount Logan was in 1925 by A.H. MacCarthy

When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 there were no deaths of any team members.

The most dangerous peak to climb is the Annapurna. The peak has a fatality rate of 41%. While the mountain has ben summitted more than 130 times, 53 people have died trying. The mountain was climbed for the first time in 1950 by a French group led by Maurice Herzog, who nearly died during the ascent. No commercial climbing has been reported on Annapurna yet. The most dangerous face of the mountain is the North Face. The other faces ar equaly dangerous and difficult. Avalanches, bad weather, rockfalls are the majpr reason behind the fatalities.

The highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest is located on the border of Nepal and Tibet in the Himalayan mountains. It can be found at these coordinates 27°59′17″N 86°55′31″E 27°59′17″N 86°55′31″E

Credit is given to Hudson Stuck, Walter Harper and Harry Karstens in 1913.

The northern peak was first scaled in 1910, and in 1913 Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens ascended the southern peak, the true summit.

Denali (Mount McKinley) was first climbed on the 7th June 1913 by Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper and Robert Tatum

The first known ascent was on 29 May 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

We climb Mount Everest for many reasons, these might include one or more of the following I have listed below:

Because it has been a life long dream

Maybe to see how far you can push your body and mind beyond its comfort zone

For the challenge

Perhaps you are a born risk taker and enjoy beating the odds

For the experience

Being obsessed with the mountain

You enjoy mountaineering

For the adventure

To prove to yourself that anything is possible if you try

It is my job, I am a mountain guide/leader

Climbing for charity

About 3 million people visit it a year. But lots of 2 million attempt it a year.

To actually climb a mountain takes from 2 to 7 days (round trip) but for mountains such as Mount Everest there is more time spent in the base camp and resupplying at advance camps on the way up. Some mountains, such as Everest and K2, have restrictions on the numbers of climbers and permits are required.

There has been around 265 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.

Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni were the first climbers to reach the summit of K2.

In 1889 Hans Meyer returned to Kilimanjaro with the celebrated Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller for a third attempt. Their climbing team included two local headmen, nine porters, a cook, and a guide. The success of this attempt, which started on foot from Mombasa, was based on the establishment of many campsites with food supplies so that multiple attempts at the top could be made without having to descend too far. Meyer and Purtscheller pushed to near the crater rim on October 3, but turned around exhausted from hacking footsteps in the icy slope. Three days later they reached the highest summit on the southern rim of the crater on Purtscheller's 40th birthday, October 6, 1889.

It was decided that Peak XV should be named as Mount Everest, after George Everest, the Surveyor General of India.

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

The first person to climb Australia's tallest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, was Paul Edmund de Strzelecki.

300 people have summited on K2 and 80 people have died trying

The highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest can be located on the border of Nepal and Tibet in the Himalayan mountains. It can be found at these coordinates 27°59′17″N 86°55′31″E 27°59′17″N 86°55′31″E

1. Experienced limbers no longer use oxygen tanks as a matter of course.

2. It is possible to manage without oxygen, even on top of Everest, if you aren't doing anything but standing around. It is very hard to exert yourself, however, without an adequate supply of oxygen.

3. The higher you get, the "thinner" the air and the less oxygen. Taking in oxygen is the basic purpose of breathing in the first place.

4, There are now devices and techniques which can help climbers breathe without the need for "bottled" oxygen. For example, anyone planning to climb Everest these days is likely to spend several weeks at altitude beforehand, to give their body time to adapt (like producing extra red blood cells which can then absorb oxygen).

This would be impossible to say, there are thousands of mountains all over the world that are climbed every year, with many climbers having died on them. Most of these mountains probably have no list of deaths etc, we only ever read or here about the big mountains.

The main activity done on Mount Everest is climbing/mountaineering.

Henry Pittock, Wilbur Connel, T.A. Wood and W. Lymen Chittenden were the first four to climb Mount Hood. The mountain is located in Oregon.

Today they use satalites to measure the height of Mount Everest. When the mountain was first measured by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India in 1847 they used a very large Theodolites weighing up tp 1100lbs and needing 12 men to carry them.

Expedition Everest is located at Disney World, not Disneyland. It has a top speed of 50 miles per hour.

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