Mountains

Hundreds of people climb it every year.

likely the only ones you've heard of are sir edmund hillary (first ever) and bear grylls (has a tv show).
Many people including but not limited to Sir Edmund Hillary and Jon Krakauer

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There have been close to 2,000 people climb it and close to 200 die trying.

Sir ranulf fiennes also climbed mount Everest
many people climb (but that does not mean its easy) but the first was Mr.Hillary
The first person to climb Everest was Sir Edmund Hillary, with Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
I'd absolutely love to be able to do it one day. I'm thinking of doing the Everest Base Camp trek as a starting point, apparently it's still quite a difficult climb and the views from the bottom of Everest are still pretty fantastic! Apparently these people run a really good trek taking you from Kathmandu to Lukla then on to the base camp in twenty days
http://www.mountainkingdoms.com/itinerary_info.ihtml?schedid=919,
think I'm going to have a go next year!
The youngest person to summit Mount Everest was Jordan Romero.

He got to the top on April 2010 when he was 13 years old.
His name was yung-je-su at 13 years old

Named After Josiah "Uncle Si" Merritt, a homesteader who lived at the base in the nineteenth century, but most famous for its starring role in the Twin Peaks credit sequence

Found Just over a half hour from Seattle, the North Bend's massif is a hugely popular destination for day hikers. You'll need a Discover Pass ($30 annually) and your stars in alignment to score a parking spot.

Conquer Ascending Si takes little more than a few hours, moderate fitness, and a granola bar, but the final scramble up a rocky pile is optional-much more dangerous than the gentle hike that precedes it.

Named By explorer John Meares, who thought the mountain looked like the home of the Greek gods

Found Rising from the center of the mountain range and peninsula both named after it. The Olympics are noted for rain forests and surly mountain goats, plus the elk herds that endeared them to onetime fan Teddy Roosevelt.

Conquer Though the peak is relatively puny in stature, Olympic glory comes only after crossing glaciers, climbing rock, and slogging 17.5 foot-numbing miles just to reach base camp. The ambitious do it in three days, while guided climbs take the better part of a week.

Named By explorer George Vancouver, for the 1st Baron St Helens, Alleyne FitzHerbert. The Cowlitz tribe, knowing her penchant for blowing up, called her Lawetlat'la, or "the smoker."

Found On the east side of the Cascades, about 50 miles northeast of Portland. You'll know her by the mile-wide crater formed by the May 18, 1980, eruption that killed 57.

Conquer Once the snow melts, block out eight to 12 hours and bring good ankle support to clamber over boulders on the most popular route to the crater rim. In winter bring traction or skis, and on Mother's Day climbers wear dresses; it's tradition. Permits ($22) are required April 1 through October 31.

Named Somewhat boringly after a third lieutenant on George Vancouver's ship Discovery. Its earlier names are much cooler: Koma Kulshan or "great white watcher" by Native Americans and La Gran Montaña del Carmelo by the Spanish.

Found On the very northern end of Washington's Cascade range, almost in Canada, and so close to Bellingham that its adjacent ski area is a Western Washington University favorite

Conquer Serious mountaineering skills are required to top Baker, though routes from the northwest (the Coleman-Deming route) and south (Easton Glacier) are popular on summer weekends; guiding starts at $850 from mountainguides.com but most folks go alone. Climbers usually camp halfway up the mountain and summit around sunrise to minimize avalanche risk.

Named When a rather hapless explorer tried to rename the Cascades after presidents; he meant to give John Adams's name to Oregon's Mount Hood. (Whoops.) Native Americans called it Klickitat.

Found East of St. Helens and halfway in the Yakima Indian Reservation, the peak is lesser known but still an active volcano that last erupted a mere 1,000 years ago.

Conquer Adams's glaciers are almost gone, shrinking by half in the last century, so the most popular route up the state's second-tallest mountain is actually nontechnical-no ropes needed, just a permit ($10 to $15). Most people take two days, camping overnight at the 9,500-foot flat Lunch Counter before a morning summit push and then glissading (i.e., butt sliding while screaming in terror and glee) all the way down.

Named After the beer. Kidding-Vancouver used the name of his buddy Rear Admiral Peter Rainier, who fought in the Revolutionary War. For the British side. One Puyallup tribal activist lobbied in 2010 to return it to its local name, Ti'Swaq, and previous campaigns have tried for Mount Tacoma or Tahoma.

Found On every state license plate and postcard. Any day the clouds clear, you probably gaze 60 miles southeast of Seattle and sigh.

Conquer Three guide companies offer regular trips up Rainier ($1,026 to $2,165), and countless other organizations do charity-themed ascents. Still more climbers attempt it independently (climbing pass $45), but there's a reason the most popular route is named after the rocky Disappointment Cleaver-half the comers turn around before the top. Glacier skills are required for the two- to three-day attempts at glory.

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Weather on a mountain is usually colder due to the higher elevations. The density of air particles in the mountains is lower than locations at sea level. In addition, depending on the side of a mountain you are on, the rain shadow effect can create wet conditions on the windward side of the mountain and dry conditions on the leeward side.

Mountain weather conditions can change dramatically from one hour to the next. For example, in just a few minutes a thunder storm can roll in when the sky was perfectly clear, and in just a few hours the temperatures can drop from extremely hot temperatures to temperatures that are below freezing.

Total money grossed? Soccer...there are too many players world wide, not to be the top money winners. Even if they averaged $100K per, they would easily exceed baseball totals.

Well Soccer (or Football for everyone else but the US) isn't actually a very high income grossing sport. Sure lot's of people play it, but most players make almost nothing for salary around the world, and the games are played in front of non-paying fans, the exception is the European Leagues such as the EPL.

Sport Leagues in the US by far exceed anything else in the world

The highest money making sports leagues in the world are they are as follows:

IN 2007

1) The National Football League - $6.3 Billion

2) Major League Baseball - $6.0 Billion

3) The National Basketball Association - $4.0 Billion

4)The Premier League - $3.05 Billion

5) National Hockey League - $2.56 Billion

6) Indian premier league grossing $1.8 billion per year.this competition will held less than 50 days

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