Top 10 Facts About the Highest Mount Everest

Did you know that in Nepal and Tibet Mount Everest is not called as it is? Yes! the mountain has its local name there. You can climb Everest via two routes starting from Tibet or Nepal also. It is a very great deal when you wanted to climb the mountain and set a record for yourself because it is very dangerous to climb it. But some people pay some professional climbers to climb for them and set a fake a record for themselves. Mount Everest claimed so many climbers lives already and it is increasing as time passes by. A mountain is considered to be much way taller than Everest when measured from its base located on the ocean floor. This mountain is located in Hawaii, the mount Mauna Kea. And did you know that there are many living creatures living even in the very high and different altitudes of the Mount Everest? For this top ten list I listed some facts regarding Mount Everest, its history, people that explored it and more.

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TOP : 10
Mount Everest Fact : Mount Everest is "Sagarmatha" in Nepal and "Chomolungma" in Tibet. Sagarmatha means "the Head in the Great Blue Sky" while Chomolungma means “Goddess Mother of the World” or “Goddess of the Valley.”

Mount Everest photo

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TOP : 9
Mount Everest Fact : In 1856, the Great Trigonometric Survey of India established the first published height of Everest at 29,002 feet.

Mount Everest survey (Please right click the image and click "Open image in new tab" to see it more clearly)

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TOP : 8
Mount Everest Fact : The Royal Geographical Society named Everest after Sir George Everest in 1865.

Sir George Everest

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TOP : 7
Mount Everest Fact : The first recorded efforts to reach Everest's summit were made by the British mountaineers.

From left clockwise, George Mallory, A.F.R. Wollaston, Charles Howard-Bury, Alexander Heron, Harold Raeburn, Henry T. Morshead, Guy Bullock, and Oliver Wheeler

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Mount Everest Fact : Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal was the first to identify Everest as the world's highest peak.

Radhanath Sikdar photo

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Mount Everest Fact : Mount Mauna Kea (the White Mountain) in Hawaii is way much taller than Everest when measured from its base in the mid-ocean floor having the height of 33,464.6 feet.

Mount Mauna Kea

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Mount Everest Fact : Spiders have been found living in Everest's crevices at the height of 22,000 feet.

Everest's Euophrys Omnisuperstes (jumping spider)

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Mount Everest Fact : By March 2012, Everest has been climbed 5,656 times with 223 recorded number of deaths.

Mount Everest climbers

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Mount Everest Fact : George Mallory became the first European to set foot on Everest's flanks on 1921.

George Mallory and wife Ruth Audrey Salkeld

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TOP : 1
Mount Everest Fact : Mount Everest has two main climbing routes, the southeast ridge from Nepal and north ridge from Tibet.

Everest's southeast ridge route from Nepal

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DID YOU KNOW?

• Everest's altitude higher than 26,000 feet  is called the "Death Zone".
• There are top 10 climbing records on Mount Everest.
• In the year 2005, Eurocopter AS350 B3 (a helicopter piloted by Didier Delsalle from France) set a rotorcraft world records for highest of both landing and take off on the summit of Mount Everest.
• On May 29, 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ever ascent of Mount Everest.

Data Sources :

• www.en.wikipedia.org
• www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/197160/Mount-Everest
• www.kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-153200/The-mountaineers-of-the-first-expedition-to-Mount-Everest-in
• www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Indian-mathematician-1st-to-identify-Everest-as-highest-mountain-peak/articleshow/3091546.cms
• www.thehauntedcastle.weebly.com/whats-on-my-mind/5-things-you-may-or-may-not-know-about-mount-everest

Photo Sources :

• www.adventure.nationalgeographic.com
• www.snowbrains.com
• www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org
• www.kids.britannica.com
• www.dtp10list.com
• www.cfht.hawaii.edu
• Gavin Maxwell / naturepl.com
• www.indialive.today
• www.thetimes.co.uk
• www.alanarnette.com

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Please be noted that the top 10 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top ten lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.

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