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40 unusual facts about Mount Everest


Arlene Blum

She was also a deputy leader of the first all-woman ascent of Mount McKinley and the first American woman to attempt to ascend Mount Everest.

She participated in a 1976 expedition up Mount Everest as part of the American Bicentennial Everest Expedition, but did not reach the summit.

Audubon, New Jersey

William Siri (1919–2004), co-leader of the first American expedition to successfully climb Mount Everest who served as President of the Sierra Club (1964–1966).

BetOnline

In 2009, the company set out to place and accept the first wager from the summit of Mount Everest.

Bristol Pegasus

It was used for the first flight over Mount Everest in the Westland Wallace, and in 1938 set the world's long-distance record in Vickers Wellesleys.

Bristol Type 138

Between 1929 and 1934, there were a number of altitude records established by rival machines including a Junkers W.34, a Vickers Vespa and a Caproni Ca.113 biplane, as well as the first flight over Everest by a pair of Westland Wallaces in 1933; all these aircraft used Bristol or Bristol-designed engines.

Christopher Paul Baker

His articles included first-person reports on such activities as bicycling in Bali, hiking to Mount Everest, whitewater rafting in Papua New Guinea, and natural history cruising in the Galapagos Islands.

Craig Calonica

During the winter of 1981/82 Calonica was a member of the Everest Grand Circle expedition the goal was to circumnavigate Everest, his was the first team that trekked, skied, around the peak in both Tibet and Nepal.

David Breashears

In 1985, he became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest twice.

Economy of Nepal

With eight of the world's 10 highest mountain peaks, including Mount Everest at 8,848 m.

Eugène Berger

On 1 October 1992, he became the first Luxembourger to climb Mount Everest, for which he won the title of Luxembourgian Sportsman of the Year.

Everest '82

Everest '82 tells the true story of the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest.

Everest Syndrome

The Everest Syndrome, named by Maddux (cited in Gallo & Horton, 1994, p. 17) refers to the tendency of teachers to feel the need to use technology, specifically the Internet, in their classrooms simply because it exists (Maddux's choice of words may have been influenced by a reason attributed to George Mallory for wanting to climb Mount Everest).

Fyodor Konyukhov

Konyukhov is the only person to have reached such extreme points of the planet as the North Pole (three times), the South Pole, the Pole of Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean and the top of Mount Everest (twice) and also sailed around the world via Cape Horn.

Into Fat Air

When Ross brags about their family vacations and that they plan to climb Mt. Everest, Peter decides the Griffins will also climb the mountain.

Laurie Skreslet

Laurie Skreslet (born October 25, 1949) is a mountaineer best known for his ascent of Mount Everest.

M. Moorthy

Moorthy (Moorthy Maniam), also known as Mohammad Abdullah, was a corporal in the Malaysian Army and a member of the first group of Malaysians to successfully climb Mount Everest.

Mayoi Neko Overrun!

Through many hardships including Chise and Fumino's dispute regarding music and extreme filming sites such as the top of Mount Everest, the final product was a success.

NanoMission

Common items such as bicycles and people and famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Mount Everest are used to help the player be able to gain a better understanding of comparative sizes.

Newry Town Hall

The granite monument in the forefront of the picture was erected in honour of local man Terence Bannon, who, on June 1, 2003, became the first citizen of Newry to conquer Mount Everest.

Per Wimmer

On Oct 6, 2008, Per Wimmer participated in the World's first tandem skydive above Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, with Ralph Mitchell as tandem master.

Peter Athans

He is best known for being, with Dave Hahn, William Crouse, and Ed Viesturs, one of only four non-Sherpa (as of May 18th, 2013) to summit Mount Everest seven times, and has been given the moniker "Mr. Everest".

Philip J. K. James

He has also climbed on five continents and climbed Mount Everest in 2003 and played a role in the high altitude rescue of Conan Harrod from Everest's North Face.

Richard Bass

On that date, he also held the record for being the oldest person to have climbed Mt. Everest.

Rocco Rossi

He has kayaked 490 km solo from Toronto to Ottawa, cycled the entire 1,900 km length of Yonge Street from Rainy River, Ontario to Toronto and twice climbed Toronto’s seven tallest office towers over three days to equal the height of Mount Everest.

Samantha Larson

On May 16, 2007, at the age of 18, she became temporarily the youngest non-Nepalese woman to summit Mount Everest.

Siegfried Eifrig

He saw China's 2008 plan to carry the torch across the summit of Mount Everest as a "pointless gesture that makes a nonsense of the relay as an athletic challenge."

Sophia Danenberg

Sophia Danenberg (born 1972) is an American mountain climber best known as the first African American and the first black woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.

St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove

Sir George Everest, the geographer who undertook the Great Trigonometric Survey in India while acting as Surveyor-General, was the first person to determine the exact height of the world's highest mountain, which was then named after him.

Stacy Allison

Stacy Allison is most famous for becoming the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, in 1988.

Susan Ershler

Susan Ershler (Susan Ellerman; born in March) is a public speaker, business executive, climber of Mount Everest, and author.

The Camels

The band returned to the studio in September 2005 to record the follow-up single "On Top Of The World", a tribute to Edmund Hillary& Tenzing Norgay, the first two people to climb Mount Everest.

The Conquest of Everest

The Conquest of Everest is a 1953 British documentary film directed by George Lowe about various expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest.

The Goodies and the Beanstalk

The beanstalk crosses the English channel and continues to grow along the ground until it reaches the foot of Mount Everest.

Tom Hornbein

Hornbein and his partner Willi Unsoeld attempted to climb Mount Everest in 1963 as part of the American Everest Expedition.

Westland PV-3

In November 1932, the PV-3 was chosen, together with the Westland PV-6 (the prototype of the Westland Wallace) for the Houston Mount Everest Flying Expedition to fly over and photograph Mount Everest.

The aircraft is best known as one of the first two to fly over Mount Everest.

Westland Wallace

The original PV-6 prototype, registered G-ACBR (and also known as the Houston-Wallace) along with Westland PV-3 G-ACAZ, was part of the Houston Everest Expedition, named after Lucy, Lady Houston the patron, an attempt to fly over Mount Everest.

Wheat and chessboard problem

On the entire chessboard there would be 264 − 1 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice, weighing 461,168,602,000 metric tons, which would be a heap of rice larger than Mount Everest.

Wreck diving

For technical divers there are fewer wrecks that have attracted widespread popularity, although for years the SS Andrea Doria was regarded as the "Mount Everest" of wrecks to challenge the diver.


1924 Winter Olympics

At the closing of the games a prize was awarded for a sport that did not lend itself very well for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to Charles Granville Bruce, the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922.

1993 in Ireland

Pat Falvey and Dawson Stelfox became the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal (Hindi: बचेंद्री पाल; born 24 May 1954) is an Indian mountaineer, who in 1984 became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Bergschrund

In a different variation, on the Himalayan mountain Lhotse, (whose ascent is part of the South Col route up Mount Everest) the bergschrund topping the glacier does not lie near the top of a ridgeline, but at the bottom of a high mountain face

Frank Wells

Wells was an avid alpinist and came close, but did not achieve his goal of the Seven Summits, climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents: Kilimanjaro in Africa, Denali (Mount McKinley) in North America, Aconcagua in South America, Elbrus in Europe, Mount Everest in Asia, Mount Kosciuszko in Australia, and Vinson in Antarctica.

Himalayan Mountaineering Institute

The first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary sparked a keen interest in establishing mountaineering as a well-respected endeavour for people in the region.

John Searle

Thus, "McKinley is prettier than Everest" is "epistemically subjective", whereas "McKinley is higher than Everest" is "epistemically objective.

Jorsale

The trail start at Lukla and Jorsale is the last settlement before Namche, the main stopping point for trekkers on their way to Sagarmartha (Mount Everest), one of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, via the Gokyo Ri route or Tengboche route.

Machhermo

Machhermo is often a stopping point for trekkers on their way to Sagarmartha (Mount Everest) via the Gokyo Ri route.

Matt Dickinson

In the pre-monsoon Everest season of 1996, amid the worst weather conditions on record, with Alan Hinkes, Britain's foremost high-altitude climber, Dickinson made a successful ascent of Mount Everest's notorious North Face, one of the most technically demanding climbs on the world's highest peak, beating hurricane force winds and temperatures of minus 70 degrees Celsius.

Monjo, Nepal

The trail start at Lukla and Monjo is often a stopping point for trekkers, as an alternative of Phakding, on their way to Sagarmartha (Mount Everest) via the Gokyo Ri route or Tengboche route.

Nick Leventis

He has also raised many thousands of pounds for charity by abseiling down The Shard in London (Western Europe's tallest skyscraper), raising money for the Commando Spirit Appeal on behalf of the Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund, and has ski-dived from 30,000ft above Mount Everest for the Global Angels charity

Osprey Packs

The world's first blind mountain climber to summit Mount Everest, Erik Weihenmayer, used an Osprey backpack, the Aether 60, and is pictured with it on the cover of Time Magazine's June 18th, 2001 issue.

Phakding

The trail start at Lukla and Phakding is often the main stopping point for trekkers on their way to Sagarmartha (Mount Everest) via the Gokyo Ri route or Tengboche route.

Tom George Longstaff

After the war, he took part in an Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen in 1921 and was chief medical officer and naturalist on the British Mount Everest Expedition of 1922.

Vanessa O'Brien

Having trekked to Mount Everest base camp and reached the summits of a number of notable mountains, including two of the world's fourteen 8,000 meter peaks (Shishapangma and Cho Oyu), she decided to build on her passion for mountaineering and set herself the challenge of achieving the Explorer's Grand Slam.