International Everest Day 2023: Although Mount Everest is the world’s highest mountain above sea level, the world’s highest mountain is Mauna Kea, an extinct volcano in Hawaii. Scroll down for more amazing facts.
International Everest Day is celebrated every year around the world on May 29, and is dedicated to the memory of two climbers of Mount Everest in 1953. This special day honors mountaineers who achieve new records while climbing the mountains. higher. International Everest Day is an annual event celebrated by the people of Nepal to honor mountaineers. As this special occasion is here, we bring you some amazing facts about Mount Everest, the highest mountain you need to know.
Amazing facts about Mount Everest
1. The first people on record to climb Everest were Edmund Hillary (a New Zealand mountaineer) and his Tibetan guide Tenzing Norgay. They climbed the mountain in 1953 and they hold the record together.
2. British surveyors recorded Mount Everest as the highest peak in the world in their Large Trigonometric Survey of the Indian subcontinent.
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3. Tibetans call Mount Everest the highest peak, ‘Chomolungma or Qomolangma’, which means Mother Goddess of Mountains. The Nepali name for Mount Everest is Sagarmatha, which means forehead in the sky. The mountain is now part of the Sagarmatha National Park.
4. Mount Everest is named after George Everest, the director of the Government Survey of India from 1830 to 1843, who was the first person to organize a team and measure the Himalayan mountains.
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5. Mount Everest was first discovered by an Indian, Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian surveyor and mathematician. It was formed about 450 million years ago, older than the Himalayas.
6. The highest mountain is located between China and Nepal, with China to the north and Nepal to the south. It stretches from the spectacular regions of Tibet to beautiful Nepal.
7. It is estimated that the average height of Mount Everest increases between 20 and 30 meters every 10,000 years. This means that the mountain continues to grow at a height of 20cm per century.
8. Although Mount Everest is the highest mountain on earth above sea level, the highest mountain in the world is Mauna Kea, an extinct volcano in Hawaii. The mountain extends 6,000 meters (20,000 feet) below sea level.
9. The lowest temperature on the top of Mount Everest is minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius all year round. The air at the summit contains only a quarter of the oxygen of the eastern plains. Winds can reach 200 miles per hour.
10. According to various reports, since the summit was first reached in 1953, more than 300 people have died in the Himalayas, mostly Sherpa guides.
11. Annually, about 800 people attempt to climb the peak of Mount Everest. More than 7,000 people have accepted the challenge, according to the Great Tibet Tour statistics.
12. On May 16, 1975, the Japanese Junko Tanabe climbed from the southern slope and became the first woman to climb Mount Everest in the world.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn