Age of Everest:
Everest was formed about 60 million years ago
Elevation:
29,035 (8850m)-found to be 6' higher in 1999
Name in Nepal:
Sagarmatha (means: goddess of the sky)
Named after:
Sir George Everest in 1865 ,the British surveyor-general of India. Once known as Peak 15
Location:
Latitude 27° 59' N.....Longitude 86° 56' E It's summit ridge seperates Nepal and Tibet
First Ascent:
May 29,1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ and Tenzing Norgay, NP, via the South Col Route
First Solo Ascent:
Aug. 20,1980, Reinhold Messner, IT, via the NE Ridge to North Face
First winter Ascent:
Feb. 17,1980 -L.Cichy and K. Wielicki, POL
First Ascent by an American:
May 1,1963, James Whittaker, via the South-Col
Mt. Everest rises a few milimeters each year due to geological forces
Everest Name:
Sir George Everest was the first person to record the height and location of Mt. Everest, this is where Mt."Everest" got its name from(In american language)
First Ascent by a Woman:
May 16,1975, Junko Tabei, JAP, via the South-Col
First Ascent by an American Woman:
Sep.29,1988, Stacey Allison, Portland, OR via the South-East Ridge
First Oxygenless Ascent:
May 8, 1978- Reinhold Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the South-East Ridge
First woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both north & south sides:
Cathy O'Dowd (S.A.) South May 25,1996/North '99
Fastest Ascent from South:
Babu Chhiri Sherpa 34, NP-16 hours and 56 minutes (5-21-2000)
Fastest Ascent (north side):
Hans Kammerlander (IT) May,24,1996, via the standard North Col Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp
Youngest person:
Temba Tsheri (NP) 15 on May,22,2001
Oldest Person:
Sherman Bull May,25,2001 -64 yrs
First Legally Blind Person:
Erik Weihenmeyer May,25,2001
Most Ascents:
Eleven, 24th May 2000 Appa Sherpa became the first person to climb Everest 11 times-Ten, Ang Rita Sherpa, Babu Chiri Sherpa all ascents were oxygen-less.
Best and Worst Years on Everest:
1993, 129 summitted and eight died (a ratio of 16:1); in 1996, 98 summitted and 15 died (a ratio of 6½:1)
Highest cause cause of death:
Avalanches-about a (2:1) ratio over falls
Country with most deaths on mountain:
Nepal-46
Most dangerous area on mountain:
Khumbu Ice Fall-19 deaths
First ski descent:
Davo Karnicar (Slovenia) 10-7-2000
Last year without ascent:
1974
Last year without ascent:
1977
Corpses remaining on Everest:
about 120
Longest stay on top:
Babu Chiri Sherpa stayed at the summit full 21 hours and a half
Largest team:
In 1975, China tackled Everest with a 410-member team.
Fastest descent:
In 1988, Jean-Marc Boivin of France descended from the top in just 11 minutes, paragliding.
Only climber to climb all 4 sides of Everest:
Kushang Sherpa, now an instructor with Himlayan Mountaineering Institute
First person to hike from sea level to summit, no oxygen.:
11th May 1990,Tim Macartney-Snape, Australian
Largest number to reach the top in one day:
40, on May 10, 1993
First person to summit Everest twice:
Nawang Gombu-Nepal(once with Whitaker in '63,and again two years later in '65)Gombu now works for the Himalayan mountaineering institute
The oldest woman to summit
Anna Czerwinska May 22, 2000.1852 First Height Recorded: 29.002ft 8.839m
1955 Revised Height: 29.028ft 8.848m
1999 Revised Height: 29.035ft 8.850m
2005 Revised Height: 29.017ft 2inches 8.844.43m
or: Sea Level to Mount Everest Summit is 5.5 Miles
The Sides of Everest: The North Face, The South West Face, The East (Kangshung) Face
1841: Andrew Waugh records the location of Mount Everest it was then called Peak XV
1859: Peak XV renamed Mount Everest to honour Sir George Everest
1921: First British Expedition to Mount Everest
1924: George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen going for the summit on the 8th June
1953: On the 29th May Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to stand on the summit of Mount Everest
1963: Jim Whittaker became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 1st May
1975: The Everest Expedition from China had a record number of members, 410 in total
1975: On the 16th May Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
1975: Doug Scott became the first Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 24th September
1978: The 29th May marks the 25th Anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest
1978: Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to climb Mount Everest without any Artificial Oxygen on the 8th May
1980: Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki from Poland made the first Winter ascent of Mount Everest on the 17th February
1980: Reinhold Messner without Artificial Oxygen (for the second time) reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 20th August by going Solo
1982: Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker from Briton disappear whilst high on the Northeast Ridge on the 17th May
1985: On the 21st April Chris Bonington stood on the summit of Mount Everest
1986: Tenzing Norgay aged 72 passed away on the 9th May
1988: On the 12th may Stephen Venables was the first Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest without any Artificial Oxygen
1988: The first American woman Stacy Allison reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 29th May
1988: Lydia Bradey from New Zealand was the first woman to summit Mount Everest without any Artificial Oxygen
1990: Andrej and Marija Stremfeij from Slovenia became the first married couple to reach the summit of Everest
1990: British actor Brian Blessed made his first trip to Everest this year and also in 1993, 1996, although he has never stood on its summit
1991: October 21st saw Andy Elson and Leo Dickinson piloted the first Balloon Flight over Mount Everest
1993: The first female Sherpa Pasang Lhmhu reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 23rd April but died during her desent
1993: The first British woman Rebecca Stephens reaches the summit of Mount Everest on the 17th May
1995: Alison Hargreaves was the first British woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest Solo and without any Artificial Oxygen but later the same year died while descending from the summit of K2
1996: On the 23rd May Sherpa Ang Rita made his tenth ascent of Mount Everest all without Artificial Oxygen
1996: Jamling Norgay son of Tenzing reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 23rd May
1996: On the 24th May Hans Kammerlander made the fastest ascent on the North Side in 16 hours and 45 minutes from Base Camp to Summit
1996: Was the worst year for deaths on Mount Everest totalling 15
1998: Bear Grylls at the age of 23 became the youngest Briton to stand on the summit of Mount Everest on the 26th May
1998: Tom Whittaker from USA became the first disabled (has an artifical leg) person to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 27th May
1998: On the 8th November Sir John Hunt leader of the 1953 British Expedition paased away age 88
1999: The National Geographic Society revised the height of Everest from 29.028ft to 29.035ft
1999: On the 1st May Conrad Anker a member of the Mallory & Irvine research Expedition found the body of George Leigh Mallory at 26,700 feet/8,138 meters on the North Face
1999: On the 6th May Babu Chhiri Sherpa was the first person to bivovac on the summit of Mount Everest and doing so for 21 hours without any Artificial Oxygen. He died on Mount Everest in 2001
1999: On the 25th May Cathy O'Dowd stood on the summit of Mount Everest for the second time, the only woman to do so by different routes, the South Col in 1996 and now by the North Col
2000: A record of 145 climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest in this year
2000: Polly Murray became the first Scotswoman to stand on the summit of Mount Everest on the 16th May
2000: On the 21st May Babu Chhiri Sherpa made the fastest ascent on the South Side in 16 hours and 56 minutes from Base Camp to Summit
2000: On the 24th May Apa Sherpa reached the summit of Mount Everest for his 11th time
2000: On the 7th October Davo Karnicar was the first person to make a descent from the summit of Mount Everest on Skis
2001: Marco Siffredi made his descent from the summit of Mount Everest on a Snowboard on the 23rd May
2001: Temba Tsheri Sherpa became the youngest person to stand on the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 15
2001: The 23rd May saw 89 people stand on the summit of Mount Everest (not all at once)
2001: Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 25th May
2002: At the age of 70 Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 22nd May
2003: On the 25th May Peter Hillary son of Edmund phones his dad via satellite phone from the summit of Mount Everest
2003: On the 26th May Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa went from Base Camp to the summit of Mount Everest in a record time of 10 hours 56 minutes
2003: Apa Sherpa reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 26th May for his 13th time
2003: May 29th marks the 50th Anniversary of the First ascent of Mount Everest made by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
2004: On the 16th May Vicky Jack became the oldest British woman to climb Mount Everest at the age of 51
2004: Appa Sherpa made his 14th ascent of Mount Everest on the 17th May
2004: On the 18th May Clare O'Leary became the first Irish woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
2004: 21st May saw Pemba Dorje Sherpa make a speed record of 8 hours and 10 minutes from base camp to summit of Mount Everest
2005: A new height for Mount Everest was taken from GPS to be 29.017ft and 2 inches
2005: On the 30th May Moni Mulepati and Pem Dorjee became the first to exchange wedding vows on the summit of Mount Everest
2005: Appa Sherpa made his 15th ascent of Mount Everest on the 31st May
2005: Explorer Ranulph Fiennes reached a height of 27,560ft on Mount Everest before pulling out on his summit attempt on the 3rd June
2005: Jake Meyer at the age of 21 became the youngest Briton to summit Mount Everest on the 4th June
2006: Mark Joseph Inglis from New Zealand became the first 'double amputie' (has artificial legs) to reach Everest's summit on the 15th May
2006: On the 17th May Kenton Cool became the first Briton to have reached the summit of Everest 3 times
2006: Rob Gauntlet and James Hooper became the youngest Britons aged 19 to reach Everest's summit on the 17th May
2006: Pauline Sanderson became the first person to complete the longest climb on earth, from the Dead Sea and reaching the summit of Everest on the 18th May
2006: On the 19th May Apa Sherpa reached the summit of Everest for his 16th time
2006: On the 22nd May Will Cross from Pittsburgh became the first person with 'Type 1 Diabetes' to reach the summit of Everest
2006: Ming Kipa Sherpais the youngest girl at the age of 15 to reach the summit of Everest on the 24th May
2006: On the 24th May Lakpa Tharke Sherpa stood on the summit of Everest for 3 minutes 'bare chested'
2006: On the 25th May Austrian climber Christian Stangl made a speed ascent from the North side of Everest taking 16 hours 42 minutes from Base Camp to summit. He then took just 6 hours from the summit back to Base Camp on the same day
2007: Chhiring Dorje Sherpa climbed to the summit 3 times within 2 weeks. Summit dates were 2nd May, 15th May and 16th May
2007: On the 15th May David Tait became the first Briton to Traverse Mount Everest, starting from Tibet North side and ending in Nepal South side
2007: Apa Sherpa broke his own record on the 16th May by reaching the summit of Mount Everest for his Seventeenth time
2007: British climbers Kenton Cool and Robert Casserly reached the summit of Everest twice in the same week, on the 17th and 24th May
2007: On the 22nd May Katsusuke Yanagisawa from Japan became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He was 71
2007: On the 24th May Tori James became the first Welsh woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
2007: Dutchman Wim Hoff reached an altitude of 24,278ft on Mount Everest wearing a pair of shorts on the ? May
2008: Sir Edmund Hillary sadly passed away aged 88 on the 11th January
2008: On the 22nd January New Zealand hold a State Funeral for Sir Edmund Hillary
2008: The first Saudi Arabian, Farouq Saad Hamad Al-Zuman reached the summit of Everest on the 21st May
2008: On the 22nd May Apa Sherpa reached Mount Everest summit for the eighteenth (18) time
2008: Australian Cheryl Bart and her daughter Nicole Bart were the first mother-and-daughter to summit Everest together on the 24th May
2008: On the 25 May 76-year-old Min Bahadur Sherchan from Nepal became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest
2008: The 26th May saw Dave Hahn become the first non-Sherpa to summit Everest for the tenth (10) time
2009: On the 21st May, at the age of 65, Sir Ranulph Fiennes became the oldest Briton to have reached the summit of Everest
2009: On the 21st May Noel & Lynne Hanna became the first husband and wife from Northern Ireland to reach the top of the world
2009: British climber Kenton Cool reached the summit of Everest on the 21st May making it his seventh time, the most for any Briton
2009: Apa Sherpa made his 19th ascent to the summit on 21st May, the most ever
2009: With Adele Pennington latest ascent to the summit Everest on the 20th May this makes her the first British female to summit twice
2009: Nickolay Cherny, a Russian guide for the 7 Summits team summitted Everest on the 21st May at the age of 70
2009: Krushnaa Patil age 19, became the youngest Indian women to scale the Mount Everest on the 21st May
2009: On the 22nd May American climber Dave Hahn made his eleventh trip to the summit, the most of a non-Sherpa
2009: Bill Burke age 67 takes the title for being the oldest American to reach the summit on the 23rd May
2009: On the 20th May Amanda Richmond, at age 54 became the oldest British woman to reach the summit Mount Everest
2010: Bonita Norris became the youngest British woman to summit Mount Everest at the age of 22 on the 17th May.
2010: British mountaineer Kenton Cool stood on the summit of Mount Everest 17th May for his eight (8) time.
2010: American teenager Jordan Romero became the youngest climber to summit Mount Everest at the age of 13 on the 22nd May.
2010: Apa Sherpa stood on the summit of Mount Everest for his twentieth (20) time on the 22nd May.
2010: On the 23rd May, Musa Ibrahim was the first Bangladeshi to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2010: American mountaineer Dave Hahn has summited Mount Everest more times than any non-Sherpa in history. On the 24th May he reached the summit for his twelfth (12) time.
2011: On the 6th May British climber Kenton Cool made the first 3G call and ‘tweet’ from the summit of Mount Everest.
2011: Apa Sherpa, climbing leader of Eco Everest Expedition 2011 reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 21st time on the 11th May.
2011: Mr Vikash Kaushik and Mrs Sushma Kaushik are the first Indian couple to summit Mount Everest on the 20th May.
2011: On the 20th May Premlata Agrawal aged 48 became the oldest women to summit Mount Everest from India.
2011: Bhakta Kumar Rai from Nepal spent 32 hours on top of Mount Everest. He reached the top at 5:30am on May 20th and stayed there till 1pm the next day. In that time he mediated for 27 hours for world peace.
2011: On the 21st May Nepali tandem paraglider pilot Babu Sunuwar and his mountain guide Lakpa Tshering Sherpa flew 20km + cross country from the summit of Mount Everest to Namche Bazaar.
2011: A British schoolboy, George Atkinson has become the youngest British mountaineer to climb Mount Everest aged 16 years and 362 days old on the 26th May.
2012: Kame Sherpa, 51 set a new record by climbing to the summit of Mount Everest three times in nine days. He reached the summit on the 19th May, 23rd May and the 27th May.
2012: Japanese climber Tamae Watanabe, became the oldest woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 19th May, at the age of 73 years and 180 days.
2012: Leanna Shuttleworth from England became the youngest British woman to summit Mount Everest on the 20th May aged 19.
2012: British mountaineer/guide Kenton Cool stood on the summit of Mount Everest 25th May for his tenth (10) time.
2012: A bad year for deaths on Mount Everest totaling 10.
2012: Dave Hahn from USA has reached the summit of Mount Everest for his fourteenth time on the 26th May, more times than any non-Sherpa in history.
2012: On the 26th May Melissa Arnot from USA became the first women to Summit Mount Everest 4 times.
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