Expedition 1 Mt Everest

Expedition 1 - Mt. Everest
Facts of the Mount Everest:

  • 8848 meter high (changing a few millimeters each year due to the geographical forces of the earth).
  • The height is equal to the height at which aircraft normally flies or 23 times the height of the Empire State Buidling (New York).
  • Also know as Chomolungma (Mother Goddess of the Earth) and Sagamartha.
  • Located in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and China (Tibet).
  • Stands indifferent to people, people do not understand him.
  • People from 41 different countries have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
  • They Mount Everest houses around 150 deaths on its snowy slopes.
  • First ascent: Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary, May 29, 1953.
  • First woman to summit: Junko Tabei (Japan), May 16 1975.
  • Costs climb about $65.000,- per persoon.
  • The motive for climbing is usually not the love of climbing or the mountains but only the satisfaction of a personal ego, so they can claim thaty they have stood at the highest point of the earth. That claim of having large egos already caused many quarrels and dramas.