Mount Everest
The tallest mountain on Earth
Mount Everest is a peak in the Himalaya mountain range. It is located
between Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China. At 8,849 meters
(29,032 feet), it is considered the tallest point on Earth. In the
nineteenth century, the mountain was named after George Everest, a former
Surveyor General of India. The Tibetan name is Chomolungma, which means
“Mother Goddess of the World.” The Nepali name is Sagarmatha, which has
various meanings.
The first ever recorded people to climb Everest were Edmund Hillary (a
mountaineer from New Zealand) and his Tibetan guide Tenzing Norgay. They
climbed the mountain in 1953 and hold the record together. The first
records of Everest’s height came much earlier, in 1856. British surveyors
recorded that Everest was the tallest peak in the world in their Great
Trigonometrical Survey of the Indian subcontinent.
Mountain Facts
- You need a permit to climb the mountain. The permit can cost either $7,000 USD if you climb the north side and $11,000 USD if you climb the south side.
- Everest is over 60 million years old.
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Edmund Hillary might not have been the first person to summit.
Climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine attempted to summit Mount Everest back in 1924, however, they were last seen on July 8 of that year, just below the summit, making their way upwards. The pair were then never seen again after a storm rolled in - It is unknown as to whether the pair made it to the summit or not. - The total cost to climb Mount Everest is anywhere between $25,000 USD to $100,000 USD (with permit cost included).
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