The skying EVEREST

Mount Everest, Nepal

Mount Everest is perhaps the nature’s most magnificent creation – certainly it’s the raison d’etre in the climbing world, offer the travel planners at geographic expeditions. Part of the Mahalangur Himal- a link planners at Himalyan chain-Everest, soaring to 26,035 feet, is the highest mountain on Earth.

“The Tibetan word for Everest is Chomolungma, which means ‘Mother of Universe,’ & the Nepalese, Sagarmatha means ‘Goddess of the Sky.’ Both are perfectly fitting, as there is no other mountain as grand as Everest.”

Its height is 29,028 feet, or 5 and a half miles above sea level. This is equivalent to the size of almost 20 Empire State Buildings. Named for: Sir George Everest, a British surveyor-general of India.

"Once in their lifetime, every person should journey to a place where legends live, where everything is bigger than life. Everest has always represented nature at its most powerful, most awe-inspiring, most unconquerable." --- An American Mountain Climber

Interesting facts about Mount Everest

·       Mount Everest remains to be the highest mountain on Earth as is measured by its height from the summit, which is above sea level. (8,848 metres)

·       Edmund Hillary along with Sherpa Tenzing Norway was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest on 29th May, 1953. They reached at 11:30 a.m. and although they attributed the success to the whole group, Tenzing later admitted it was Edmund Hillary who first set his foot on the summit!

·       Mount Everest is a part of the Himalayan range and is located between the Sagarmatha Zone, Tibet, Nepal and China.

·       Mount Everest is known by several other names as well! In Tibet, Mount Everest is known as Chomolungma or Qomolangma. The Chinese translated this as Shèngmǔ Fēng, a name that is rarely used. Locals in Darjeeling named it as Deodungha, which means Holy Mountain.

·       Australian climber Christian Stangi was recorded to have made the fastest ascent in 2007. He used the northeast ridge to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

·       Bahadur Sherchan remains to be the oldest climber at 76 years to successfully climb Mount Everest. He achieved this feat on 25 May 2008.

Mount Everest was also shrouded in controversy in 2006 when a climber claimed to have passed a distressed climber-David Sharp, who needed help at that moment. This incident caused a furor about the ethics displayed by climbers.