Awesome Facts about Mount Everest
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Mt.Everest is named after George Everest in 1856, a retired British Surveyor General of India.Ironically George Everest never even saw the peak and didn't even know that the peak existed during his term.He also objected naming the peak after him.
Mount Everest was not known to outside world until 1847 because Nepal and Tibet were closed to foreigners.Before that Kangchenjunga was considered the highest peak in the world.
Nepalese and Tibetans were aware of it in the name of "Chomolungma" for centuries.But they didn't know that Everest is the highest peak on the earth as they had little contacts with outside world.
In 1852,height of the Mt.Everest (8848 m) was calculated by Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor,without even going near to it by using trigonometric calculations.
Everest is the highest mountain on earth but it's not the tallest mountain on earth!!.This is because Mt.Everest measures 8848m when measured from sea level. But Mauna Kea in Hawaii is tallest when measured from its base.Its height is 10,200 m from its sea base but it projects to only 4205 m above sea level.
The international border between Nepal and Tibet (part of china) runs exactly across the summit point of Mt.Everest.
The international border between Nepal and Tibet (part of china) runs exactly across the summit point of Mt.Everest.
Due to Tectonic plates movement,the height of peak is increasing by 4mm per year and location by 6mm/year towards northeast.
On 26th may 1953,just 3 days before the historic ascent by Tenzing and Hillary, a pair of climbers (Bourdillon and Evans) came within 100 m of summit but (,bad luck,) lack of oxygen forced them to return back.
Sir Edmund Hillary also explored both the Poles in the late 1950s. This made him the first person to have reached both poles and climbed Everest.
At least one person died every year on Everest from 1969 except on 1977 and 1974. In fact in 1974 no one climbed Everest!
At summit,the amount of oxygen available will be one third of what a human being requires because of less pressure.
Temperature at summit is always below freezing point ranging between -36C to -18C.
By the end of 2010,there had been 5104 ascents,of which 633 were made in just year 2007.
World's tallest manmade structure (by end of 2013),Bhuj Khalifa is 829m high.So man should develop ten times the present to 'reach the GOD'!
Everest has now even been mapped by Google,although it did not get to the summit.Just the base camp and regions around it are mapped at present.
Wanna see 2 billion megapixel resolution image of Mt.Everest (made by combining 477 images): Visit this
There is a 4G network coverage at 5200m of Mt.Everest.And here we are struggling to get 3G coverage to post this article :-)
A weather station was started at 8000m height on mount everest in 2008.This ofcourse makes it the world’s highest automatic weather station
There's a webcam that live covers the Mount everest.It located on another peak (Kala Patthar) at 5675m,making it highest webcam in the world. See Live Stream on this
More than 50 tonnes of rubbish is present on top of Mount Everest, making it world’s highest rubbish dump.Eight tonnes of rubbish including remains of a helicopter were collected from Everest that were turned into works of art and sculpture.It took 65 porters and 75 yaks to carry down that rubbish.
There's a controversy that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are the first to successfully ascent the peak in year 1924 but died while descending.The reason behind this belief is that Mollary was first person to reach 7000 m mark on Everest and the one who discovered the northern approach to climb the mountain.They were known to have carried a Kodak camera with them.
Mallory's body was found in 1999.The only way controversy can be settled would be if the camera were ever found.
The most controversial moment in Everest's history: a climbing party and many others had passed a distressed,oxygen deficit climber (David Sharp) without rescuing him because they too will become low on oxygen.
First on Mt.Everest - (chronologically)
#Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India was first to notice this peak in 1847.
#Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor of Bengal was first to calculate the height of peak in 1852.
#George Finch,the first time a human climbed higher than 8,000m in 1922.
#Col. Felix Norton,the first time a human climbed higher than 8,000m in 1924.
#Douglas-Hamilton and David Fowler,first to fly a plane (Westland PV-3) over the summit in April 1933.
#Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay,first to reach the summit on 29 May 1953.
#Junko Tabei,first women to ascent Everst in 1975.
#Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler are the first to climb the mountain without bottled oxygen in 1978.
#Again Messner was first solo climber to reach summit without bottled oxygen in 1980.
#Andrzej Zawada, Leszek Cichy, and Krzysztof Wielicki became the first to reach the summit during the winter season in 1980.This is a record because all previous succesful attempts were made only during summer monsoons.
#Jean-Marc Boivin,first to descent by paraglider on 26 September 1988.
#Peter Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary's son, climbed the mountain in 1990, making the pair the first father and son to do so.
#Tim Macartney-Snape,first person to climb from sea level to the summit in 1990.
#Davo Karnicar,first to completly skidown in 2000.
#Marco Siffredi and Stefan Gatt,first to snowboard down Everest in 2001.
#Didier Delsalle,first to land a helicopter (Eurocopter AS350) on the summit of Mount Everest in 2005.
#Rod Baber,first to make a voice call (2G) and send text message from summit in 2007 (used a motorola's mobile)
#Kenton Cool,first to send a tweet and first to make a 3G call from top of summit (used Samsung Galaxy S2) in 2011.
#Daniel Hughes, made first ever video-call (live to BBC news) in May 2013 (used HTC one).He is also the first person to place a red nose at the top of Everest.
On 26th may 1953,just 3 days before the historic ascent by Tenzing and Hillary, a pair of climbers (Bourdillon and Evans) came within 100 m of summit but (,bad luck,) lack of oxygen forced them to return back.
Sir Edmund Hillary also explored both the Poles in the late 1950s. This made him the first person to have reached both poles and climbed Everest.
At least one person died every year on Everest from 1969 except on 1977 and 1974. In fact in 1974 no one climbed Everest!
At summit,the amount of oxygen available will be one third of what a human being requires because of less pressure.
Temperature at summit is always below freezing point ranging between -36C to -18C.
By the end of 2010,there had been 5104 ascents,of which 633 were made in just year 2007.
World's tallest manmade structure (by end of 2013),Bhuj Khalifa is 829m high.So man should develop ten times the present to 'reach the GOD'!
Everest has now even been mapped by Google,although it did not get to the summit.Just the base camp and regions around it are mapped at present.
Wanna see 2 billion megapixel resolution image of Mt.Everest (made by combining 477 images): Visit this
There is a 4G network coverage at 5200m of Mt.Everest.And here we are struggling to get 3G coverage to post this article :-)
A weather station was started at 8000m height on mount everest in 2008.This ofcourse makes it the world’s highest automatic weather station
There's a webcam that live covers the Mount everest.It located on another peak (Kala Patthar) at 5675m,making it highest webcam in the world. See Live Stream on this
More than 50 tonnes of rubbish is present on top of Mount Everest, making it world’s highest rubbish dump.Eight tonnes of rubbish including remains of a helicopter were collected from Everest that were turned into works of art and sculpture.It took 65 porters and 75 yaks to carry down that rubbish.
There's a controversy that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are the first to successfully ascent the peak in year 1924 but died while descending.The reason behind this belief is that Mollary was first person to reach 7000 m mark on Everest and the one who discovered the northern approach to climb the mountain.They were known to have carried a Kodak camera with them.
Mallory's body was found in 1999.The only way controversy can be settled would be if the camera were ever found.
The most controversial moment in Everest's history: a climbing party and many others had passed a distressed,oxygen deficit climber (David Sharp) without rescuing him because they too will become low on oxygen.
First on Mt.Everest - (chronologically)
#Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India was first to notice this peak in 1847.
#Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor of Bengal was first to calculate the height of peak in 1852.
#George Finch,the first time a human climbed higher than 8,000m in 1922.
#Col. Felix Norton,the first time a human climbed higher than 8,000m in 1924.
#Douglas-Hamilton and David Fowler,first to fly a plane (Westland PV-3) over the summit in April 1933.
#Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay,first to reach the summit on 29 May 1953.
#Junko Tabei,first women to ascent Everst in 1975.
#Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler are the first to climb the mountain without bottled oxygen in 1978.
#Again Messner was first solo climber to reach summit without bottled oxygen in 1980.
#Andrzej Zawada, Leszek Cichy, and Krzysztof Wielicki became the first to reach the summit during the winter season in 1980.This is a record because all previous succesful attempts were made only during summer monsoons.
#Jean-Marc Boivin,first to descent by paraglider on 26 September 1988.
#Peter Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary's son, climbed the mountain in 1990, making the pair the first father and son to do so.
#Tim Macartney-Snape,first person to climb from sea level to the summit in 1990.
#Davo Karnicar,first to completly skidown in 2000.
#Marco Siffredi and Stefan Gatt,first to snowboard down Everest in 2001.
#Didier Delsalle,first to land a helicopter (Eurocopter AS350) on the summit of Mount Everest in 2005.
#Rod Baber,first to make a voice call (2G) and send text message from summit in 2007 (used a motorola's mobile)
#Kenton Cool,first to send a tweet and first to make a 3G call from top of summit (used Samsung Galaxy S2) in 2011.
#Daniel Hughes, made first ever video-call (live to BBC news) in May 2013 (used HTC one).He is also the first person to place a red nose at the top of Everest.
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