35 interesting facts about Mount Everest

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We share the most interesting facts about Mount Everest, collected over the years of reading, writing and dreaming about his slopes

I recently was in Nepal for the first time to complete the Trek to the Everest base camp. I hope to go one step further one day and climb the Everest itself as part of my trip to climb the seven peaks.

Until my next summit test, I focus on gaining as much climbing experience as possible and taking as much information as possible on the way through the notorious summit.

The highest mountain on earth, which has captivated the dreams of men and women like me for decades - if not centuries - has a thousand stories to tell. From record peaks to false speeches, we take a look at the most interesting facts about Mount Everest.

interesting facts about Mount Everest

  1. The Mount Everest is the highest mountain on earth at 8,848 m. The summit is just below the travel flight of a jumbo jet. (Source: Britannica)

  2. The exact height of the Everest summit was discussed for a long time. Over the years, a number of surveys have been carried out that were led to different heights:

    • 8,848 m from the Survey of India between 1952 and 1954
    • 8,872 m from an Italian survey in 1987
    • 8,846 m from another Italian survey in 1992
    • 8,850 m by an American investigation in 1999
    • 8,844.43 million of China in 2005
    Finally, a common Chinese-Nepalese calculation resulted in 8,848.86 m (29,032 feet)-slightly higher than in previous measurements. (Source: Britannica, The Guardian)

    1. Mount Everest is one of the 14 eight -thousanders, the only mountain in the world over 8,000 m (26,247 ft). (Source: NASA Earth Observatory)

    2. Everest is also one of the Seven Summits, the highest mountains of all continents. (Source: Britannica)

      3. alt = “Interesting facts about the Mount Everest-Everest summit”> Atlas & Boots The summit of Mount Everest

      1. The mountain was "discovered" by Radhanath Sikdar in 1852 as the highest in the world. Sikdar, an Indian, worked in the British ruled India on the Great Trigonometrical Survey. It originally measured the mountain to 8,840 m (29.002 ft). (Source: BBC News)

      2. Until then, the immeasurable mountain was known as Peak XV. It was later named after Sir George Everest, the General Verhable of India. (Source: BBC News)

      3. in all likelihood, Sir George Everest never saw the mountain named after him. (Source: BBC Wales)

      4. everest is often wrongly pronounced. The last name by Sir George is pronounced (Eva's wrench with 'Eve' as on Christmas Eve), while the mountain has been called Everest as in Everlasting for a long time. Sir George himself refused to name the mountain "Everest" because he could neither be written in Hindi nor "the native of India". (Source: Weltatlas)

        5. Alt = “Radhanath Sikdar and George Everest”> Guide Free Radhanath Sikdar and George Everest

        1. The Mount Everest is known on Nepali as "Sagarmatha", which means "goddess of heaven", and in Tibetan as "chomolungma", which means "holy mother". (Source: Britannica)

        2. One of the most interesting facts about Mount Everest is that due to the shift in tectonic plates, it grows by 4 mm every year. (Source: The Guardian)

        3. The summit of Everest is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet (China). Nepal is located in the south and China in the north. (Source: Google Earth)

        4. Everest was created about 55 million years ago when India's continental plate fell into Asia. The collision was so violent that India's plate was pushed under Asia, raised the land mass up and created the Himalaya. (Source: National Geographic)

          5. alt = “The imja Khola Valley above Dingboche”> Atlas & Boots of the Himalaya was created about 55 million years ago

          1. The ice -cold, mighty winds that whip the tip of Everest are actually a jet stream, a very cold, fast -moving wind high in the atmosphere. (Source: National Geographic)

          2. The highest recorded wind speed at the summit of the Everest was 175 MPH (282 km/h), recorded in February 2004. The reference is that a hurricane of category 5 is defined than a hurricane with persistent wind speed of more than 157 mph (253 km/h). (Source: Popular Mechanics)

          3. The coldest month on Everest is usually January when the average summit temperature is around -36 ° C (-33 ° f). Most mountaineers climb their peaks in May, although there are also climbs in the autumn months and occasionally in winter. (Source: Mount Everest (2009))

            4. alt = "When we arrived, it snowed in the base camp"> Atlas & Boots January is the coldest month at Everest

            1. The first summit attempt was made from the north side from a British expedition in 1921. (Source: History)

            2. 1924 13 men died during an expedition to Everest. This included George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, who is known to disappear during a summit in 1924. Whether they reached the summit or not has remained a mystery, although this is generally considered unlikely. (Source: BBC News Magazine)

            3. 1933 David Mcintyre and Sir Douglas Douglas-Hamilton flew as the first people over the summit of Everest. (Source: The Guardian)

            4. The first confirmed success of Everest took place on May 29, 1953 by the Nepali Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand Edmund Hillary on a British expedition from the south side. (Source: BBC)

              5. Alt = “Interesting-Facts-Uber-Everest-Norgay-Hilary”> GuShefrei Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to climb Everest

              1. Nepalese citizen Kami Rita Sherpa holds the record for most Everest summits. He reached the summit for the 23rd and 24th times in May 2019 at the age of 49 after making his first ascent in 1994. (Source: Washington Post)

              2. There are at least 18 named climbing routes on Everest, including a couple who have not yet climbed. (Source: Outside Magazine)

              3. 1975 the Japanese Junko Tabe as the first woman as the first woman. Since then, more than 500 women have reached the summit, including the youngest woman, Malavath Poorna, who was 13 years old when she climbed the summit, and Lhakpa Sherp, who climbed the summit nine times - more than any other woman. (Source: National Geographic)

                4. alt = "interesting facts-over-the-ever-junko work"> GuShefrei junko Tebeit on the summit of Everest

                1. Jordan Romero from California is the youngest person who has climbed Mount Everest. He climbed the summit in 2010 when he was just 13 years and 11 months old. (Source: The Telegraph)

                2. The oldest person who has climbed Everest is Yuichiro Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese who completed the trick in 2013. (Source: The Independent)

                3. until December 2018 there were 9,159 Everest summit on all routes of 5,294 different people. (Source: Himalayan Database)

                4. by December 2018, 295 people have died of Everest since 1924. This corresponds to a mortality rate of about 3.2 % (at the summit). Unlike in 1977, at least one person has died of Everest every year since 1969. (Source: Himalayan Database)

                  5. alt = “The Everest monument in Chukpi Lhara”> Atlas & Boots A monument to fallen climbers in Chukpi LHARA in Nepal

                  1. 2018 was a record year for Everest summit with 802 documented. The previous record year was in 2013 with 670. 2019 the record is to be broken again. (Source: Himalayan Database)

                  2. It takes an average of 39-40 days to climb Mount Everest from its base camp. This does not include the time for trekking to the basic camp that is between 10 and 14 days. The entire expedition lasts six to nine weeks. (Source: Alan Arette)

                  3. It costs between $ 30,000 and $ 85,000 to climb Everest depending on the necessary support. The average costs are around $ 67,000. (Source: Alan Arette)

                  4. The deadliest year on Everest was in 2015 when 19 people died on the mountain. A devastating earthquake of the strength 7.8 shaken Nepal, killed almost 9,000 people and triggered avalanches at Everest. An avalanche swept through the base camp and killed or injured dozens of mountaineers and workers there. (Source: Britannica)

                    5. alt = "Interesting facts about the Nuptse West wall of Mount Everest"> Atlas & Boots The Everest massif

                    1. At the summit of Everest, only a third of the amount of oxygen at sea level is available at the level of the atmospheric pressure at this height. Climbers usually use breathing devices and bottle oxygen to withstand the effects of a reduced oxygen supply. (Source: CNN)

                    2. The last 848 m long section of the mountain is known as the "death zone". There is not enough oxygen available above 8,000 m so that people can survive for a long time without additional oxygen. (Source: Washington Post)

                    3. 1978 the Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner was the first to increase the Everest without additional oxygen. In 1980 he also achieved the first successful Soloobes' inclusion of Everest. (Source: The Telegraph)

                    4. There are now "Flash expeditions" for the summit of Everest for those who are willing to issue $ 110,000. Such expeditions use height -simulation tents beforehand to reproduce acclimatization in the mountains and to shorten the expedition period to only 21 days. (Source: The Telegraph)

                    5. Although Mount Everest is the highest mountain over the sea level, Hawaiis Mauna Kea is the highest mountain from the base to the top. Mauna Kea is largely hidden below the surface of the sea, but is a monumental height of 10,203 m (33,476 feet) from its submerging base to its summit. (Source: Guinness World Records)

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