Irka Bauer

There is a "2 o'clock rule" when climbing Mount Everest.
Because of its cold and unpredictable weather, climbers must be sure to get to the summit by 2 pm, or else experience has shown that they should turn back to avoid being caught in the death zone or short of camp in failing light and falling temperatures, not to mention bad weather.

Sherpas are the only people who can climb Mt. Everest without oxygen
Sherpa is a people group who have settled on both sides of the Himalayas. Living in mountainous areas with thin air, a unique physical characteristic has been inherited by the Sherpa people: increased hemoglobin production.

This inherent factor, which allows them to function well in the Himalayas’ low-oxygen environment.

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There were more than 5,000 different people who have stood on the top of Everest over 9,000 times.

Mount Everest was first climbed on May 29, 1953, by Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal.

Mount Everest is about 60 million years old.
In 1924, explorer Noel Odell was the first to discover marine fossils on Mount Everest, which proved that the Mount Everest area was originally covered by an ocean.

The limestone and sandstone on the summit were found to be submarine sedimentary rocks formed approximately 450 million years ago.

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Mount Everest rises 40 cm per century!
The Himalayas are being formed by the uplift of the Eurasian Plate caused by the Indian Plate sliding underneath. Everest grows on average 4 mm (0.2”) a year or about 40 centimeters (16 inches) per century.

Mount Everest is NOT the tallest!
Mount Everest is now 8,848.86 meters high. Although Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level, Hawaii's Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain base-to-peak at 10,210m (33,500 ft), but only 4,205m (13,796 ft) is above sea level.

Everest's Summit is not the farthest point from the Earth Center either. The farthest point from the Earth’s center is atop Mount Chimborazo (elevation 6,310 m) in Ecuador, South America.

Mount Everest is also called Chomolungma or Sagarmatha
Mount Everest is the highest peak in the Himalayan mountains locates on the border of Nepal and Tibet (China). Mount Everest was given a Tibetan name as Qomolangma or Chomolungma, which means "mother of the earth".

In Nepalis, it was called Sagarmatha which means the "God of the Sky". In western countries, it was named after George Everest, a director of the British Surveyor General of India, who was responsible for surveying the Himalayas in the 19th century.